14 DAY TRIAL // Just how many times have you yearned for a person whose experience and expertise in the field of actually playing music you could use in different difficult moments? You know, they say that technique must be "stolen" as there usually are quite few occasions on which you can actually get some "master" to teach you something special and highly useful for your instrumental career. There were VHS tapes, now it's the DVD: more information, better quality, lower prices and no wear and tear. Ah, and respectively, lower prices.
Since big bands are issuing lots of DVDs with gigs and other special content, people thought why not actually letting the audience get a more in-depth insight in the tech life of such groups, whether it was about gear or the actual playing. Thus instructional material were born and man, they thrived!
Rock House is a brand specialized in delivering such instructional content to the public. Now, I guess you've all realized Rock House deals with rock and metal and other related music... It's time to introduce you to the latest release of Rock House: the Metal Bass!
Metal Bass is a 2-stage instructional program which will let you have David Ellefson as instructor. For those of you who aren't in either metal or bass, David Ellefson is the bass player of legendary band Megadeth, a true milestone in the development of actual metal.
Bass Metal is a two-parts instructional DVD containing tips and tricks as well as other info Dave Ellefson is sharing with you so you not only become a better bass player but a better metal bass composer as well. Fundamental routines and requirements for all metal players will be highlighted in this material and they will be showcased in such a manner that even the utmost beginners will understand them.
In the first part of the material, David will pas through basic elements such as "playing with a pick and your fingers, how to mute, scale basics, exercises, and alternate tunings. Learn rhythms & timing, octaves & fifths, how to create a great bass sound and more. The comprehensive program starts you at the beginning so that you can develop the skills needed to play any style of metal", as described by Rock house and Ellefson themselves.
The second part contains training routines and more complex exercises treating matters like old school, Thrash or Speed bass lines composing and arranging, as well as advanced-level chording and scales, half-steps and gallop techniques; it is in this second part as well where you'll see how spectacular things like hammer-ons and pull-offs are to be made. Technically, the sky is the limit, but a material like David Ellefson's Metal Bass will always mean the initial lift-off you need.
Even more, for the same money you'll spend on Metal Bass you'll get free lifetime membership on the Rock house Interactive Lesson Support site, a place where you can get in tough 24/7 with other students like you and your instructors, share impressions and have further questions asked by fellow-students or "masters".
The price for this membership, the Metal Bass and the 28-page booklet is almost impossible to beat: $24.99; hello, metal (wannabe) bassists, what are you waiting for?
