Funk bass DVDs featuring Freekbass: Rock House.

ROCK HOUSE, a leader in music instruction, is announcing the release of two new instructional programs on DVD featuring Freekbass. Legendary bassist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bootsy Collins calls Freekbass "the new spiritual warrior for the funk." Rock House's new Learn Funk Bass program takes a two-step approach. The DVDs are designed to give players an inside look at the techniques that make up Freekbass's unique style and help develop a solid foundation for playing funk bass and an understanding on how to fuse funk playing with other styles of music.

With Level 1 students learn left and right hand technique and the G major scale, then quickly graduate to key funk elements like slap & pop, thump, pluck, groove, and timing. They will learn octaves and how to put major & minor triads into full progressions. With Level 2 students learn to develop their own creativity, fuse funk and blues scales, techniques like hammer-on grooves and funky right hand variations, key elements like the Dorian thump mute groove, double thump, ghost-note percussive technique, and multiple position scales spanning the entire neck.

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Learn Funk Bass comes with a free lesson booklet and membership to Rock House's lesson support site, www.rockhousemethod.com. This feature, exclusive to Rock House and its partners, offers students supplementary support for the lessons featured on the DVD. Once registered, students can interact with the community, utilize the additional learning tools, and access the special features.

All Rock House instructional products are distributed through Music Sales Corp.

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