Product Details

• Actors: Todd Phillips
• Directors: Todd Phillips
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: October 1, 2001
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• ASIN: B00005U5SZ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #665,261 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

On Video One, Todd familiarizes you with your instrument, shows you how to play with good tone and timing, and provides you with the essential techniques you’ll need to eliminate unnecessary stress on your body and hands. Having your bass properly set up is the first order of business, and Todd goes over the instrument from top to bottom to be sure yours is ready to play.

Unique on-screen diagrams and close-up camera work will guide you in visualizing the geometric grid of notes on the fingerboard. Major scales and chords in both open and closed positions will become apparent, and you’ll quickly be playing and understanding chord progressions and bass lines. Todd provides left and right hand exercises to train your ear and develop the accurate fingering necessary for playing with good pitch.

Moving to right hand techniques, you’ll learn how to achieve volume, tone production, definition and the solid rhythm to lay down a musical foundation for any kind of music you want to play.

Todd’s clear and carefully conceived method will provide detailed instruction in the proper way to hold your instrument, the mechanics of playing, how to develop strength and stamina, and how to (as Todd puts it) “connect ear to hands to bass.”