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Rock House releases two new Funk Bass DVDs

Rock House has announced 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." The Learn Funk Bass program takes a two step approach with a level 1 & 2. They are designed to give players an inside look at the techniques that make-up Freekbass' unique style, 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, the G major scale and 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.

Freekbass' instructional DVDs will be available at MI retailers around the world for $24.99. All Rock House instructional products are distributed through Music Sales Corp.1-800-431-7187 or call Gordon at 1-866-You-Rock.

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The DVDs will come with a FREE lesson booklet and membership to Rock House's lesson support website. 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 such as:

- "Ask the Teacher" questions
- Visit the "Message Boards" to share ideas with other students
- Download "Backing Tracks" to play along with
- "Take a Quiz" that will be graded to track progress
- Get "Tips and Techniques" about everything from practicing to performing
- Access "Sheet Music" from a constantly growing list of songs in easy-to-read tablature format
- Use "MP3s" to post original compositions
- Download FREE "Tuner" and "Metronome" software And explore tons of other content to help make their learning fun and complete

For more information, please visit www.rockhousemethod.com

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