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If you’ve always wanted to play those infectious grooves and bass lines that are so essential to a successful band, this clear, easy-to-follow course will get you started the right way. Veteran player Roly Salley provides all the tools you’ll need to get a jump-start on the bass guitar. You’ll be tuning up and sounding your first notes just minutes after you put the DVD into your player. Before long you’ll have all the elements necessary to create the rhythmic pulse and bottom tones that are essential to driving a blues, country or rock band.
This DVD contains two complete lessons on a single disk. You’ll start out by learning the fundamentals of bass playing – left and right hand technique, scales and theory, bass lines and progressions for a variety of musical styles. Once you’ve mastered the basics, you’ll learn minor key progressions, blues licks, runs and turnarounds, rhythm kicks, positions up the neck, finger strengthening exercises and song accompaniments. Roly imparts innumerable tips on performing, playing in a rhythm section, equipment and much more.
(about 90 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on September 24, 2005 in Musical Instruction::Bass.
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This is a good introduction to bass playing. Roly Salley has an engaging personality and he loves playing the bass. He explains what he's doing and why, starting from simple exercises to some challenging ones.
The video would have been improved with more imaginative camera work. It has the feel of a home made video, with a camera set up in the middle of the room and a guy with a guitar standing in front of it. Roly never quite loses his nervousness, and the camera angle never changes.
Roly did a good job in explaining things that are important for a bass player to know, for example, recognizing bass patterns. He kept saying it's important to know music theory and he'd occasionally lapse into jargon, e.g., "You may recognize this as a circle of fifths."
I liked this video and I'd recommend it.
