Frequently Bought Together
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Editorial Reviews
Expanding on the groundbreaking concepts he introduced in his book, The Music Lesson 'A Spiritual Search For Growth Through Music, master bassist Victor Wooten lays out his unique philosophy of teaching and learning music in Groove Workshop, a 2008 DVD from Hudson Music. The two disc set features nearly five hours of material, including a complete master class where Victor, along with bassist/educator Anthony Wellington and six bass students, uses his personal experience and expertise to delve deeper into rarely discussed, yet vitally important, aspects of music making. While traditional music education focuses primarily on developing technique and note-perfect performance, professional musicians like Victor know that there's much more to making music than just playing the right notes. On Groove Workshop, Victor redefines the essential elements of music and demonstrates how to apply them in fresh, creative, musically relevant ways.
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Don't let the Master Class classification fool you. If you're thinking of taking up any instrument and know virtually nothing about music, watch this video first! This video was a complete reawakening to me of what I'm trying to do learning music. If you're reading this you probably, as I do, consider Victor Wooten among the top five living bass players. I hoped simply to watch the self analysis of a master performer. This video is vastly more than that. Wooten starts out with defining music as a form of communication and then asks, "How did you first learn to communicate?" He looks at the remarkable success rate of humans learning to speak a first language and compares it to the frustration for most people of approaching music classes. Do we ask a baby to recite the alphabet before we teach them their first words? Wooten asks the participants what notes are in a G minor key? He proceeds to play a bass solo in G minor using only notes NOT in G minor. Then he plays one in the G minor scale. The first solo sounds better. Wooten's point is that music is not about notes. Notes may actually be the least important part of playing music. This is one of the most thought provoking music lessons I've ever taken, primarily because it asks me to STOP THINKING when I'm playing. I LOVE this video.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
There are many aspects of musicianship that "go without saying". We don't talk about them, so growth occurs slowly (if at all). We can flounder for decades without ever becoming great players, never questioning why.
Victor and Anthony break these elements of music down in a very logical manner, allowing us as musicians to take a sober look at what we actually know and don't know. This can be a very shocking reality check, but it's also very inspiring.
The content is best suited for good bass players who want to grow into great bass players, but it is also applicable to beginning and intermediate bass players, and to musicians in general. Some exercises are strictly for bass players, but this video teaches music as a whole.
You won't learn how to play the VWB's funk-infused jazz from this series of lessons, but you will learn something more valuable -- how to make whatever you do more musical.
Victor's approach to learning music is unusual, but it's not radical. He does not attempt to replace the classic methods, but to supplement them. I would be skeptical if his teaching methods were radical, but they are simply based on observation of how music really works.
Victor and Anthony break these elements of music down in a very logical manner, allowing us as musicians to take a sober look at what we actually know and don't know. This can be a very shocking reality check, but it's also very inspiring.
The content is best suited for good bass players who want to grow into great bass players, but it is also applicable to beginning and intermediate bass players, and to musicians in general. Some exercises are strictly for bass players, but this video teaches music as a whole.
You won't learn how to play the VWB's funk-infused jazz from this series of lessons, but you will learn something more valuable -- how to make whatever you do more musical.
Victor's approach to learning music is unusual, but it's not radical. He does not attempt to replace the classic methods, but to supplement them. I would be skeptical if his teaching methods were radical, but they are simply based on observation of how music really works.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
I purchased this DVD thinking that it would be an instructional video like Billy Shehan or Jaco Pastorius. Well, it was not what I expected, but it was much more. It seems that Victor Wooten does not put out a DVD that is just simply an instructional video. This DVD is perfect for someone who wants to look at playing bass in a whole new way. He really gets you thinking about the music itself, not just memorizing different finger patterns.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Excellent from two perspectives.
This DVD set was an excellent purchase from two different perspectives:
1. I play bass, and there are a lot of ideas and concepts in the video that can make a player... Read more
1. I play bass, and there are a lot of ideas and concepts in the video that can make a player... Read more
Published 19 hours ago by B. Thomas
Excellent
This is not just for bass players, but for any musician. The DVD gets you thinking about the music and less about the theory. Well worth watching.
Published 9 days ago by Geoff
This DVD taught me how to play bass
This DVD single handly taught me how to become an amazing bass players in just 2 years!!!
This is basically a dvd version of victor wooten book the music lesson.. Read more
This is basically a dvd version of victor wooten book the music lesson.. Read more
Published 3 months ago by E
Great Concepts
Though this review is not a 5 star let me start off by expressing that I think Victor is a fantastic player and is very talented at what he does. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Michael McCulley
Woo Hoo!
Victor Wooten's master groove workshop is fantastic and inspiring! His approach to music can be translated to other art forms - so, you don't have to be a bass player to be... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Joan Hepburn
Two Thumbs for this DVD
If you are the bass player and are taking the bass class for years, I'm sorry to say you're still not the real bass player if you don't get this lesson from this DVD. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Lecky Banua
The path to becoming a musician
As many of us know, eventually we want to advance from a player to a musician. This DVD is one of the many tools that we need in our box. Read more
Published 9 months ago by the bassman
Great DVD for all MUSICIANS!!
This is a great dvd for all Musicians, not just bassist!! Victor is a very insightful musician!! He speaks of music being a language, and how you should have something to convey... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Ned
A must for every musician
If you ever wondered why some bands/players are playing all the "right" notes but still don't sound very good, this DVD will explain it. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Matthew Coen
Innovative Ideas to All
When Victor Wooten started this video I thought it would be just like many other technique driven lessons. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Terry Klemensen
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Movies & TV > TV
- Music > Rock
