Essential Techniques For Acoustic Bass: Lesson Two

Essential Techniques For Acoustic Bass Lesson Two DVD VIDEO Todd Phillips SEALED Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Homespun Tapes Released: 2001 Media: DVD ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUES FOR ACOUSTIC BASS: LESSON TWO This lesson brings a beginning bass player firmly into intermediate territory with the teaching of minor scales, leading tones, a variety of time signatures, and more complex chord changes. Todd Phillips provides invaluable exercises to help strengthen and stretch fingers and develop strong rhythmic technique. Important advice is given about how to function as a bassist in a group, listening, supporting, and responding to other players. Detailed instruction is provided in the proper way to hold your instrument to develop strength and stamina, and learn the mechanics of playing as well as the music theory necessary to 'connect ear to hands to bass.' Todd's careful, step-by-step approach will demystify the upright bass and show how to play with professional-level tone, timing