Jayu808
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01/14/26
Percussive acoustic guitar. Wow!!
Great! I saw dmitry’s performance on YouTube. I really wanted to learn some of his techniques. This is an excellent course! Highly recommended!
Percussive Acoustic Bass (Foundry)
An Independent Production Covering Acoustic Bass Techniques & Concepts
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Dmitry Lisenko
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NOTE: TrueFire Foundry courses are independently-produced courses presented by a hand-picked selection of top-notch artists and educators from around the world. Filmed in the educator’s own studio, Foundry courses bring fresh educational concepts and very effective teaching methodologies to TrueFire Students.
Percussive Acoustic Bass is a technique enabling you to play both rhythmic percussive parts and melody or bass parts simultaneously. The hollow body of an acoustic bass instrument gives you the ability to create percussive sounds otherwise not possible with an electric bass.
Dmitry Lisenko’s Percussive Acoustic Bass curriculum demonstrates the most common approaches and techniques used to perform percussive-style acoustic bass.
”This course will be beneficial for musicians of any level, starting from complete beginners to most advanced players. You'll need an acoustic bass to fully benefit from the course, but many techniques and tips can be applied on electric bass as well. Also, it's an incredible way of exploring your bass at home, for solo playing, covering songs arrangements, and just for the joy of playing! It will open a whole new dimension in your composing and change your understanding of the rhythm section.”
Dmitry Lisenko has performed across Europe and recently released a solo album of original compositions. He’s won several bass guitar competitions, including the 2015 Russian Bass Player Competition, and has appeared at festivals like the London Bass Guitar Show, Bass Day St. Petersburg, Bazzday 2016 in Moscow, and the Warwick Bass Camp. Dmitry is also a passionate teacher and his work has been widely published. We’re thrilled to welcome Dmitry to the family with his first TrueFire course, Percussive Acoustic Bass, which he produced in his own studio.
Percussive fingerstyle for acoustic bass is comprised of many different right an left-hand techniques: Slap, tapping, harmonics, chords & intervals, hammer-ons, and pull-offs, as well as percussion. Dmitry will show you all of the following techniques: Muted Strings Hits, Note & String Stroke, Different String Strokes, Percussion Introduction, Percussive Elements, Kick & Snare, Kick, Snare, Hi Hat, Tom-Tom, Percussive Slap Technique, Kick & Slap Approach, Percussive Pop, Pop & Snare, Slap & Pop, Slap Hi Hat Technique, Left Hand Hi Hat, Chords & Intervals, Friend Offline Intervals, Minimalism Chords, Tapping, Left Hand Tapping Scales, Brainwashing, Soul Ache, Minimalism Tapping, Harmonics Introduction, Harmonics & Bass Parts, Tap Harmonics, Soul Ache Tap, Harmonics, Flat Earth Harmonics, Harmonics, Bass, Percussion, Friend Offline, Flat Earth, and Minimalism.
Dmitry will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the materials at your own pace.
Grab your bass guitar and let's get acoustic and percussive with Dmitry Lisenko!
Percussive Acoustic Bass is a technique enabling you to play both rhythmic percussive parts and melody or bass parts simultaneously. The hollow body of an acoustic bass instrument gives you the ability to create percussive sounds otherwise not possible with an electric bass.
Dmitry Lisenko’s Percussive Acoustic Bass curriculum demonstrates the most common approaches and techniques used to perform percussive-style acoustic bass.
”This course will be beneficial for musicians of any level, starting from complete beginners to most advanced players. You'll need an acoustic bass to fully benefit from the course, but many techniques and tips can be applied on electric bass as well. Also, it's an incredible way of exploring your bass at home, for solo playing, covering songs arrangements, and just for the joy of playing! It will open a whole new dimension in your composing and change your understanding of the rhythm section.”
Dmitry Lisenko has performed across Europe and recently released a solo album of original compositions. He’s won several bass guitar competitions, including the 2015 Russian Bass Player Competition, and has appeared at festivals like the London Bass Guitar Show, Bass Day St. Petersburg, Bazzday 2016 in Moscow, and the Warwick Bass Camp. Dmitry is also a passionate teacher and his work has been widely published. We’re thrilled to welcome Dmitry to the family with his first TrueFire course, Percussive Acoustic Bass, which he produced in his own studio.
Percussive fingerstyle for acoustic bass is comprised of many different right an left-hand techniques: Slap, tapping, harmonics, chords & intervals, hammer-ons, and pull-offs, as well as percussion. Dmitry will show you all of the following techniques: Muted Strings Hits, Note & String Stroke, Different String Strokes, Percussion Introduction, Percussive Elements, Kick & Snare, Kick, Snare, Hi Hat, Tom-Tom, Percussive Slap Technique, Kick & Slap Approach, Percussive Pop, Pop & Snare, Slap & Pop, Slap Hi Hat Technique, Left Hand Hi Hat, Chords & Intervals, Friend Offline Intervals, Minimalism Chords, Tapping, Left Hand Tapping Scales, Brainwashing, Soul Ache, Minimalism Tapping, Harmonics Introduction, Harmonics & Bass Parts, Tap Harmonics, Soul Ache Tap, Harmonics, Flat Earth Harmonics, Harmonics, Bass, Percussion, Friend Offline, Flat Earth, and Minimalism.
Dmitry will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the materials at your own pace.
Grab your bass guitar and let's get acoustic and percussive with Dmitry Lisenko!
What you'll learn
- Use thumb fretting technique for bass notes
- Play a bass line using only the left hand with tapping technique
- Coordinate left-hand bass patterns with right-hand percussive rhythm
- Coordinate thumb for bass notes and fingers for harmonics
- Maintain sustain on bass notes while adding harmonic layers
Release date: 03/13/2018 • 1h 33m runtime
Sample lessons
Percussive Elements
Explanation
Chords & Intervals
Introduction
Intervals
Explanation
Chords
Explanation
What's included
90 lessons • 25 charts
Percussive Acoustic Bass
Hi, I'm Dmitry Lisenko, and welcome to my new Foundry course, Percussive Acoustic Bass. This course is an introduction to the wonderful world of percussive bass guitar!
By understanding the core concepts, you'll be able to replace whole rhythm section in acoustic concerts, acting as a bass player and drummer at the same time. Also, it's an incredible way of exploring your bass at home, for solo playing, covering songs arrangements, and just for the joy of playing! It will open a whole new dimension in your composing and change your understanding of the rhythm section.
All exercises and information given here is to demonstrate the most common approaches and techniques used in percussive style acoustic bass. It's the first step in discovering rhythm section abilities for bass players.
This video course will be beneficial for musicians of any level, starting from complete beginners to most advanced players. You'll need an acoustic bass to fully benefit from the course, but many techniques and tips can be applied on electric bass. I'm sure after watching few videos you will want to get an acoustic bass for yourself. It's also very handy for practicing at home, as you don't need any amplification.
At the moment of creating this video, such course is a first of it's kind for bass players. You've found very unique school with a fresh and innovative approach. Welcome to the world of percussive bass!
All exercises and information given here is to demonstrate the most common approaches and techniques used in percussive style acoustic bass. It's the first step in discovering rhythm section abilities for bass players.
This video course will be beneficial for musicians of any level, starting from complete beginners to most advanced players. You'll need an acoustic bass to fully benefit from the course, but many techniques and tips can be applied on electric bass. I'm sure after watching few videos you will want to get an acoustic bass for yourself. It's also very handy for practicing at home, as you don't need any amplification.
At the moment of creating this video, such course is a first of it's kind for bass players. You've found very unique school with a fresh and innovative approach. Welcome to the world of percussive bass!
About Percussive Bass
What is Percussive Bass?
Percussive bass is a technique where you play rhythm and the melody (or bass part) simultaneously. Because of the hollow body of the acoustic instrument, when we hit it we can get sound similar to percussion.
Acoustic Bass
As long as your bass is acoustic, any model will work. The bigger the body, the lower and louder percussive sound you can get, which is especially important for kick drum sounds.
Chords on Bass
You will be using a lot of chords and intervals, so it's good to know and be able to play them.
Left Hand Tapping
You have to think about your hands as a two different instruments, or band members: The right hand is the drummer and the left hand is a bass player. That's why you have to learn to play any bass riff only with your left hand.
String Action Try to lower your string action so you'll be able to tap with your left & right hands more easily. If you don't have an acoustic bass yet, don't worry - you can start practicing most of the exercises with an electric bass.
Overall, percussive fingerstyle is an advanced style of playing, which consists of many different techniques: Slap, tapping, harmonics, chords & intervals, hammer-ons and pull-offs, as well as percussion. In this course, I'll show you all of these techniques only in relation to percussive fingerstyle. For deeper understanding, and for achieving better results, I would highly suggest you to learn each of these elements separately.
Percussive bass is a technique where you play rhythm and the melody (or bass part) simultaneously. Because of the hollow body of the acoustic instrument, when we hit it we can get sound similar to percussion.
Acoustic Bass
As long as your bass is acoustic, any model will work. The bigger the body, the lower and louder percussive sound you can get, which is especially important for kick drum sounds.
Chords on Bass
You will be using a lot of chords and intervals, so it's good to know and be able to play them.
Left Hand Tapping
You have to think about your hands as a two different instruments, or band members: The right hand is the drummer and the left hand is a bass player. That's why you have to learn to play any bass riff only with your left hand.
String Action Try to lower your string action so you'll be able to tap with your left & right hands more easily. If you don't have an acoustic bass yet, don't worry - you can start practicing most of the exercises with an electric bass.
Overall, percussive fingerstyle is an advanced style of playing, which consists of many different techniques: Slap, tapping, harmonics, chords & intervals, hammer-ons and pull-offs, as well as percussion. In this course, I'll show you all of these techniques only in relation to percussive fingerstyle. For deeper understanding, and for achieving better results, I would highly suggest you to learn each of these elements separately.
Muted Strings Hits
Muted string hits are the most widely used percussive technique. There are 2 main concepts: either we play strings strokes in between the notes, or we hit them together with a note.
Muted Strings Hits
Muted string hits are the most widely used percussive technique. There are 2 main concepts: either we play strings strokes in between the notes, or we hit them together with a note.
Muted Strings Hits
This is a bass part based on 5th intervals. We're adding a string stroke after each note. Stroke the muted strings to make a percussion sound. In the notation, you'll see an "x" letter above the string which has to be stroked.
Note & String Stroke
Now we're going to play the note and muted stroke at the same time.
Note & String Stroke
Now we're going to play the note and muted stroke at the same time.
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Reviews
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paolo
10/04/18
Great ideas to start even with percussive fingerstyle guitar
I speak as a guitarist always in search of something creative Thanks to this young guy from Russia I think a lot of people can be able to start with good sense to play acoustic percussive guitar, coz I think a lot of these ideas in this course we can use on our six strings. Maybe the lessons are still too shorts but really I think it's a serious startpoint!
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