You Can Play Electric Bass!
HOMESPUN

A Complete Course for Beginners


Taught By Roly Salley.
Level 1
One DVD, Includes music and tab

 

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.

Lesson 1:
This perfect introduction to the art of bass playing starts you right out on basic scales, left and right hand techniques and simple bass lines. Before long you'll be "walking" the basses, playing shuffle feels, blues progressions, extended lines and octave substitutions—all in a wide range of keys. You'll be able to play with other musicians and will be ready to move on to more advanced techniques.
Lesson 2:
Continue your bass study with more complex bass lines, minor scales, dominant 7ths, turnarounds, runs, inversions and 12-bar blues in and shuffle feels. You'll learn valuable left-hand exercises, rhythm kicks and positions up the neck, as well as a wide range of helpful tips on performing, playing with a rhythm section and equipment.
About Roly Salley

Bassist Rowland (Roly) Salley has recorded and toured internationally with the Chris Isaak Band since 1985. He has also accompanied many folk, country and rock artists, including John Prine, Lucinda Williams, Shawn Colvin, Ian and Sylvia, Bobby Gentry, Joan Baez, The Woodstock Mountains Revue, the Happy and Artie Traum Band, and Dick Dale. Roly has appeared on Jay Leno, David Letterman and other major television talk shows and recorded a 1995 MTV Unplugged session with Chris Isaak. He is also a prolific watercolor painter.