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Mark teaches basic patterns and scales, fingerings, passing notes, chord progressions, walking lines, arpeggios and other important subjects. He shows how the bass works in a bluegrass band context and provides innumerable tips on music theory and playing ideas.
Songs: I'll Never Shed Another Tear, Fireball Mail, Blue Railroad Train, others.
(about 72 minutes)
Going to the next level, Mark explores techniques such as 3/4 time, walking bass lines using chromatic scales, "slap" bass, syncopations, hammer-ons, pull-offs and more. He also covers bass set-up, actions, miking and gives full band demonstrations of Darlin' Cory Is Gone; Cry, Cry Darlin'; White Dove; Foggy Mt. Special.
(about 60 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on September 24, 2005 in Musical Instruction::Bass.
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I've watched the first of these two videos, and thought it was pretty solid. The first half or so was spent on basic stuff like tuning, left and right hand technique, intonation, etc. This material is covered quickly, and is probably most useful for a complete beginner, but seemed a bit tedious to me. The second half talks about creating bass lines, and is very nicely structured. It moves from simple 1-5 lines, to adding the 3rd and 6th as passing notes, then adding scales, arpegiation, chromatic runs, etc. All the material is demonstrated with guitar and banjo accompaniment, but it would be nice to hear each technique by itself as well. Overall, though, very informative.
These videos are very thorough for teaching the basic techniques of playing the upright bass. It it not assumed that the viewer has any sort of prior knowledge, so even the very basics are covered. A beginner/intermediate player will deffinately benefit from these videos. There are many "intermediate" bass players I have heard who could benefit from these. Of course, the techniques which are taught are only useful if the player actually uses them! -Jim Treat Parlor Music
