Product Details

• Actors: Mark John Sternal
• Directors: Mark John Sternal
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Studio: MJS Music & Entertainment, LLC
• DVD Release Date: November 10, 2008
• Run Time: 230 minutes
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• ASIN: B001J85GLU
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #59,247 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

Musician, Educator and Author Mark John Sternal began teaching his trademark method to private guitar students in 1991. He was only 17, with one year left of High School before he would attend Richard Daley College in Chicago. By 1994 Mark relocated to Florida, and with him came the manuscript of his first book. The piece was titled Total Scales Techniques and Applications, which Mark sold to his private students. One afternoon a student's friend came into the music store where Mark was teaching. He explained that he had seen the manuscript and wanted to purchase one for himself. This transaction sparked the idea to put the manuscript up for sale online. The manuscript sold so well that Mark was able to quit his 'other job' as a student loan consultant, and pursue music full time. By 2002, fueled by user feedback and testimonials, Mark's growing number of music instruction titles awarded him national recognition. In 2004 his proven methods became available to the retail music industry. For most of 2006 and all of 2007 MJS held the #1 best selling music instruction slot at some of the largest music and book stores in the United States. In March 2008 MJS Music & Entertainment introduces Mark's GUITAR DVD #1 Beginner Basics & Beyond. October 2008 introduced the BASS GUITAR DVD #1 Beginner Basics & Beyond.

Other titles include:
BASS GUITAR DVD #1 Beginner Basics and Beyond (also available for Guitar)
Easy Guitar Chords DVD
Easy Guitar Scales DVD
GAMERS TO PLAYERS Guitar DVD Documentary
and the #1 best selling series Total Scales Techniques and Applications.

Product Description

The key that will open the door to Total Bass Guitar Mastery...

Total is the key word... every position on the fingerboard, in every key, and different ways to use them. -Bass Player Magazine

A complete course for beginner through dedicated professional.

Using easy-to-remember shapes found in every musical key, you will learn to expertly play scales, bass lines and fills on the entire fretboard... plus all of the tricks and techniques used by the worlds greatest bass players: hammer ons, pull offs, picking patterns, vibrato, string bending, slides, two hand tapping, and much more.

For beginner to expert... every position on the guitar and all the ways to use them... -Music Connection Magazine

Advanced Features: Increment patterns, string skipping, double note patterns (harmony), harmonics, scale notes as chords and song writing tips.

To wrap up this amazing instructional DVD, Mark John Sternal teaches you all of the modes, key changes, plus 50 exotic and cultural scales that will truly enhance your playing.

Whether you play rock, metal, blues, jazz, country or any other style of music, it s pretty much guaranteed that there s a scale for you... -Doug Coy, Observer Editor, New York