recommended DVDs

[bass_asaph]

hey,cud u name a few DVDs dat wiil be useful for me as an imtermediate going on advanced bassist cos i seem to be @ crossroads in terms of playing bass.

[MikeGee]

hey,cud u name a few DVDs dat wiil be useful for me as an imtermediate going on advanced bassist cos i seem to be @ crossroads in terms of playing bass.

have not found any for this level. If/when you do can you let me know?

[DaReal]

Real talk! I'm still a ways under intermediate but it seems every thing out there is way behind me or way beyond me!

So if anyone is reading this, Myself and MikeGee makes two witnesses (according to the biblical interpretation of things) and so someone MUST deliver...

 

[bass_asaph]

im third witness man but im a l'il bit advanced due to a lot of hard work but i nedd some sort of direction.

[MikeGee]

Either they don't exist or I'm looking in the wrong places. If there are educational DVDs at a beginners level then there should be DVD for interm. and advanced level. I have not found books, DVDs or internet downloads for advanced level of playing. I'm not interested in shelling out the money for bass lessons.

[mjl422]

Most of the intermediate/advanced "educational" DVDs are more demonstrative than educational IMO.  I started buying live concert DVDs and checking out what the bass players were doing.  You can't always see them but, you can pick up alot of good stuff.

Are you looking for?  Advanced technique? or what to do with the techniques that you already learned?

[bass_asaph]

i would say im looking for both really.

[mjl422]

What to do with it is kinda tricky IMO.  You'll probably have to either study the "masters" (listen to/watch and see how they move around within a song) or get a private instructor.  Most of the DVDs that I've seen don't really talk to much about how to use what you've learned.  It's always "here's the technique, now go out and experiment."

Tommy Brown's DVD has some pretty good footage of him playing.  I don't consider it an instructional video though.  He talks a little about what he's doing but, it's mostly demonstrative (him playing with other musicians and his choir etc..)  I haven't seen Joel Smith's yet but, that might be one to inquire about.

I try to use Concert Videos to get ideas on how to use the techniques that I've developed over the years and to cop some new ones.

Thees are some of the DVDs that I use:

Marvin Sapp- Diary of a Psalmist (Darrell Freeman on bass)
Fred Hammond - Pages of Life (Terrance Palmer on bass)
Israel & New Breed - Alive in South Africa (Terrance Palmer on bass)
Israel & New Breed - Another Level (Terrance Palmer on bass)
Ce Ce Winans - Throne Room (Sharay Reed on bass)
Fred Hammond - Speak those Things (Maurice Fitzgerald on bass)

It's going to be difficult finding Bass Instructional DVDs for Advanced Bassists.  This probably doesn't help you much but, it's the best I can do right now. 

[carlmack7183]

The DVD that helped me take my playing to another level was Jaco Pastorius' "Modern Electric Bass". Its everything that you would want to know from arpeggios, soloing, groove contol, and even exercises for dexterity. Its pricey, but you get a book with it too. Well worth the buy.

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Electric-Bass-Jaco-Pastorius/dp/B00007D5JQ

[malthumb]

The DVD that helped me take my playing to another level was Jaco Pastorius' "Modern Electric Bass". Its everything that you would want to know from arpeggios, soloing, groove contol, and even exercises for dexterity. Its pricey, but you get a book with it too. Well worth the buy.

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Electric-Bass-Jaco-Pastorius/dp/B00007D5JQ

Along those same lines, you could consider "Standing In The Shadows of Motown".  Not the movie, but the book and instructional CD the book was based on.  It's not a video instruction, but following the CD and the book demonstrate how and why James Jamerson made some of the choices he made in his playing.

Peace,

James

[ElderKel]

I have not found any DVDs yet but I am still looking also but a very good book to purchase would be 23 Bass lines by Dan Pliskow.  This book cover beginners to advance his telephone number is listed within in and he is most helpful.  He taught Robert Hurst III the bass player for Branford Marsalis in "Tonight Show, Band studied with Dan for 4 years prior to getting that gig.

[dfwkeys]

I believe that some of the greatest basses today didn't have dvd's or study materials but they basically studied other basses and used them as a road map.  So probably to further advance is to study from live concerts dvds. 

A good dvd to purchase is bass day 98', you can't go wrong with marcus miller stuff cuz this is the closes to the stuff gosepl musicians do.  Victor bailey stuff.

What i do is listen to a good track, play it, then see how can i make it sound better with my own improv skills etc... Or i'll listen to some Israel houghton, and think of, how can i make this sound better by improv.  Besides dvd, the best way i learn is just playing with a live band, maybe doing a lot of shed sessions. for some reason, my improv and creative skills come out more when i play live for an audience or something is that situation or playing with a band.

But since this topic is recommended dvds,

i would say:

1: bass day 98
2: A night with Stanley clark (bass)
3: victor wooten- bass day
4: kirk whalum

[johnflindsey]

I would say if you can't find a dvd,  make a recording of yourself playing and study yourself to find out what and where you can improve and then share it with every one.

[dfwkeys]

I would say if you can't find a dvd,  make a recording of yourself playing and study yourself to find out what and where you can improve and then share it with every one.

Good idea... i always think i'm doing okay until i see a video of myself... then i'm never satisfied.

[4hisglory]

While these DVDs aren't advanced, I really like them because they provide step  by step instruction on how to form basslines.

http://www.learngospelmusic.com/products/bass.php