David Ellefson Of Megadeth – Metal Bass

Legendary heavy metal bassist David Ellefson reveals the fundamental skills required to play metal bass. On DVD 1, you'll learn the basics like holding the bass, hand positioning and reading tablature. Key metal elements likeplaying with a pick and your fingers, how to mute, scale basics, exercises, and alternate tunings are also covered. Learn rhythms & timing, octaves & fifths, and how to create a great bass sound. On DVD 2, David reveals hispersonal secrets to riff-oriented bass lines and rips through advanced chords, scales and metal bass techniques like the gallop, half step demonic tones, hammer-ons, and pull-offs. Play the bass lines along with the custom drumand guitar backing tracks and experience how it feels to play in a metal band. Formatted for Zone 0 – playable on any DVD system.