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Dave LaRue is one of todays leading bassists, recording and touring with the Steve Morse Band and Dixie Dregs for nearly 20 years. His incredible technique and finesse of the bass make him the first-call for well-known artists, and he has also established himself as a regular columnist for Bass Player magazine, touring clinician, and adjunct professor at Floridas Stetson University. In this DVD, Dave gets viewers started with warm-ups, stretching, and arpeggio fingering exercises. He lets loose with some of his hip funk lines using hammer-ons, slapped, popped, and ghost notes, and a complete lesson of modes. In addition, he demonstrates how to use rhythmic variations and polyphonic ideas to expand soloing techniques. Follow along at home with note-for-note transcription of each exercise, in both standard notation and TAB, using the printable PDF companion booklet included. Bonus features include a lesson from Victor Wooten and a performance by Jaco Pastorius and John Scofield.
This is one of the best bass instructional videos out there. By best I mean most useful. I have videos of players free jamming, going over their bass collection, giving half-hearted advice...This is truly useful. It is important to point out the title is "Essential" and not "Elemental", so you have to have a basic understanding of music theory and fret board orientation. The video has three parts. Part One is about Technique, it contains warm up and dexterity improving exercises. It also has stretches to improve your five fret reach at the deep end. Part Two is about Slapping. Here you find the usual suspects; slap on open E or in closed position, ghost notes, hammer-ons, pull offs, pops etc. Part Three is about Improvisation and Soloing. Modes, Scales, Scale groupings, Rhythm variations, Arpeggios, Inversions, etc. At the end Dave incorporates most of the discussed material into a brief solo performance. I found this last part the most useful of all. Although the DVD appears to be dated (1991 hair, wrist bands, etc), the material presented here is not. This is one of those instructional DVDs that you will actually want to watch again.
