Billy Sheehan: Billy Sheehan: Advanced Bass: Bass Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

Billy Sheehan is one of the World???s most respected Bass players and presents his basic bass tutorial. This Bass legend introduces beginners to the fundamentals and the important basics of playing the bass guitar. The solid platform that he forms gives beginners an early advantage on their journey of development. Everything from choosing a bass setting up your amp and tuning to left and right-hand technique keeping time and slap and pop are covered in Sheehan???s easy-to-follow unique style. This DVD provides a perfect start for anyone wanting to learn Bass guitar or to sharpen and improve from their current level.

Legendary Bassist Billy Sheehan reveals the secrets and techniques that have made him one of the most respected players of all time. This bass master will add new dimensions to your playing developing your style and skills. This Book and DVD feature advanced techniques such as Tapping Neck bends and Pitch harmonics as well as a look at Sheehan's influences his home system and the licks and warm-up exercises he uses. A comprehensive method that combines the text book with a multi-functional DVD.

Bass Day ?97 was a historic event organized by the Bass Collective NYC and Bass Player magazine. It brought together world-class bassists from all over the globe for an all-day show that included an all-star jam session. Billy Sheehan has rewritten the book on virtuoso rock bass. His groundbreaking style and technique has been an integral part of Talas Mr. Big Niacin and David Lee Roth?s band. On this instructional DVD from Bass Day ?97 Billy intertwines stunning solo performances with answers to audience-selected questions such as about tapping neck bending scalloped frets dual-output basses 4-finger plucking covering several parts at once stringgauges ?playing? the pickups distortion compression and much more. Learn from one of the true legends of bass from this remarkable once-in-a-lifetime event. Special features include DVD-ROM content with the complete video formatted for computer and iPod.

It's time to take center stage to deliver all the pyrotechnics usually associated with six-string guitar shredders! Shredding Bass Guitar takes you there through in-depth lessons on building technique, dexterity, and speed. It shows you how to shred using chords, arpeggios, and scales, and covers heavy metal and funk techniques like tapping, string skipping, and slap and pop. Lessons and examples are in the styles of bass masters Billy Sheehan, Les Claypool, Steve Harris, Victor Wooten, Stanley Clarke, and others. Shredding Bass Guitar provides a fresh perspective on the four-string electric bass and is a must-have for any bassist looking to take their playing to a new level. The accompanying CD features all the examples from the book. Features * In-depth lessons for developing technique, dexterity, and speed * For pick-style and fingerstyle players * Covers techniques like string skipping, tapping, two-handed tapping, wide-interval skipping, slap and pop, double thumbing, double popping, and more About the Author David Overthrow is an author, educator, and virtuoso bassist. After attending Berklee College of Music, he began performing with a wide variety of artists throughout the U.S. and Europe, playing rock, funk, jazz, and R and B. David is Director of Music at the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. He has written for Bass Guitar magazine, authored numerous electric bass methods, and taught three instructional videos for Alfred Music. David has performed with such luminaries as Pat Metheny, Stanley Clarke, Mike Stern, Trey Anastasio, Paul Gilbert, Zakk Wylde, and Sonny Landreth. / Guitare Basse

Tapping is a technique that involves playing notes with both hands directly on the neck of the Bass Guitar. It was popularised by virtuosos such as Adam Nitti, Stuart Hamm, Victor Wooten and Billy Sheehan, but has become more and more popular with amateur players for the unique and futuristic sounds it can produce. With Tapping A La Basse, you can learn everything necessary to master this cool technique.In four chapters, this method will help you learn how to make strange and wonderful sounds with two-handed tapping. The first chapter details linear tapping, the second will teach you how to create great riffs and licks with tapped arpeggios, the third lets you combine tapping and chords, while the fourth and final chapter will reveal polyphonic tapping. While some technical exercises are revealed, this method is primarily based on practising, ensuring that you master all the techniques through playing them. The accompanying DVD is a great help in letting you hear and visualise how the tapping should sound and be played. Two different speeds enable you to see how it's done at normal speed, then slowed down so you can play along and gradually get to grips with the style. With technical and musical examples within this method, you will gain all the details needed to grasp Bass Guitar tapping! / Guitare Basse

DVD-If it were possible to get Steve Vai Billy Sheehan Tony MacAlpine Virgil Donati and Dave Weiner together onstage at the same time you would surely expect to see the most awe-inspiring hard rocking guitar pyrotechnics imaginable! That's exactly what happened - Live at the London Astoria in December 2001!! This 2 DVD set is a fantastic opportunity to see Vai at his dynamic and crowd-pleasing best supported by some of the greatest Rock musicians of our time. Featuring backstage and behind-the-scenes footage interviews band biographies a Vai discography rehearsal coverage and 21 songs - APPROX 4 HOURS OF FOOTAGE!

Apprenez l'essentiel des grooves et lignes de basse rock dans les styles de Paul McCartney, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Geddy Lee, Sting, Billy Sheehan, Flea et d'autres encore ! Cette édition complètement révisée vous enseignera les principes fondamentaux du shuffle, des rythmes binaires, du ' bounce ', du son Motown, du funk, du hard rock, de la techno-pop, de la ' power ballad ', du heavy metal, du rock alternatif, du grunge, des mesures asymétriques, des rythmes de danse et plus encore. Une vue d'ensemble du matériel et des effets y figurent aussi, ainsi qu'une liste d'enregistrements incontournables. Cette édition inclut également l'accès à 131 exemples musicaux en ligne. / Guitare Basse

Private Lessons Series-This book provides note-for-note transcriptions of the Drum lessons on the accompanying instructional video which can be accessed online at halleonard.com via a unique code in the book. In the video Ray Luzier takes players through an in-depth survey of modern rock drumming techniques and styles. Through clear step-by-step explanations and exercises he reveals details of essential techniques including: warm ups accents and double stroke rolls hand and foot coordination independence motion and ostinato double Bass Drum techniques grooves & fills building Bass Drum speed and more. Ray demonstrates how to put these skills to work during excitinglive performance footage featuring fellow David Lee Roth Band alumni Billy Sheehan (Bass) and Toshi Hiketa (Guitar) and live footage from Japan featuring Keisuke Nishimoto.