Barry Bales bass DVD trailer

The Grammy award-winning bassist demonstrates the style and techniques he employs with Alison Krauss & Union Station.

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Barry Bales has been among the most celebrated upright bassists in bluegrass and country music this past 20 years. He has multiple Grammy awards, plus trophies from the International Bluegrass Music Association and the Country Music Association. His bass is featured in recordings from Alison Krauss & Union Station where he is the full-time bass player, and in films like Walk The Line and O Brother, Where Art Thou.

In this nearly 21/2 hour DVD, Barry shares his thoughts on the appropriate role of the bass, and demonstrates many of the techniques that have made him a first call musician in both bluegrass and country music. AcuTab's John Lawless leads Barry through a discussion of his background and influences before they move on to songs. Barry also covers important topics like tone production, walking bass, percussive 'ghost' notes, and more.

After some talk about basic left and right hand technique, Barry presents 3 versions of the familiar song, Fireball Mail, starting with a simple, traditional approach, moving with each new version into ways to add interest and dynamism to the bass line. With each version, Barry explains and demonstrates the line he plays, why he chose to include it, and where the viewer might want to use it in their playing.

From there, Barry presents another 8 familiar songs, in a variety of keys, tempos and styles.

Banks Of The Ohio
Kentucky Waltz
Wayfaring Stranger
Groundhog
Rebecca
East Tennessee Blues
Blackberry Blossom
Everytime You Say Goodbye

For each song, Barry explains his approach, often showing more than one for each, and then demonstrating the deviations from a standard one-five pattern. He is assisted in the studio by Adam Steffey on mandolin, Jim Mills on banjo, and Kenny Smith on guitar. A printed booklet with tab and standard notation of the bass lines played is also included.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Union Station
• barry bales
• acoustic bass
• upright bass
• bass
• bluegrass
• bluegrass bass
• alison krauss
• kenny smith
• jim mills
• adam steffey

[palomagrl]

I could sure use this!

[Oviner123]

Barry Bales rocks !!!

[edisonphonographfan]

lol this dude is my neighbor been to his house my stepdad help build it its a two story farm house style house i knew he was kinda famous

[nasty5oh]

Nice video John.

[rufusvanrugburn]

very good

[ellonysman]

Its like superman, these notes ....throwin them out like its so obvious...oh man, I can never get this....

[Diegobanjo]

Finally! That's great!