Wooten V. - The Music Lesson

The Language of Music and How to Speak It-Victor Lemonte Wooten emerged as a once-in-a-lifetime game-changing bassist in the early- 90s via his highly innovative playing with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. Launching his solo career a few years later with A Show of Hands it soon became apparent that Wooten was also a major musical force thanks to an organic and highly original approach to music and music education. In this book/online video package Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It Victor reveals his musical soul. In Part 1 he outlines his ten essential elements of music including such important and under-emphasized areas as emotion and feel dynamics tone phrasing space and listening. This section deals more with Victor s concepts and approaches and are more theoretical in nature. In Part 2 Victor addresses the personal lessons using text notation tablature and video footage to cover such key topics as warming up and hand-strengthening tone harmonics thumb technique tapping looping and soloing. This section is a more how to approach with hands-on demonstrations. Throughout Victor underscores this vital material with a groove first ethic as well an accent on being musical and creative three mandatory ingredients to becoming a highly-sought-after professional bassist. All of which makes Victor Wooten Bass Workshop a must-have tool for bass players at all levels. Includes online 4 hrs. of video that can be streamed or downloaded.

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

This DVD is jam packed with talent. All Star Guitar Night features 18 performances plus artist lessons and close-up interviews.Artists include: Muriel Anderson Pat Bergeson Suzy Bogguss Thom Bresh Alison Brown Vassar Clements Seymour Duncan Richard Gilewitz Danny Gottleib Beth Gottleib Nokie Edwards Johnny Hiland Phil Keaggy John Knowles Ben Lacy Brent Mason John Pell Dave Pomeroy Richard Smith and VictorWooten.Performed live in Nashville for the All Star Guitar Night 10th Anniversary Concert. Recorded at the Ryman Auditorium July 2002. This DVD is a tribute to Chet Atkins Benefit for the Music for Life Alliance.Song titles include: Mr. Bojangles; Two Shores; Mister Sandman; A Baker's Dozen; Baby's Coming Home Wazamataz and more.