"Finally! A teacher that doesn't waste time in explaining things.
ANYONE can understand these lessons! You are revolutionary dude." -Eco54
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hola compadre.....how are you....fine?
okey.. you help me so much to play bass (sorry if you dont understand me because i am chilean so i dont speak english good :/..) now i am good bass player because you teach me and i am so... sorry i dont now how says
``agradecido´´ in english but you (and les claypool xd jiji)are my bass sensei.......okey i want to talk to you so look my msn and sent me a message
adios amigo :)
Your lessons are pretty sweer and I am aenjoying em a lot. I had really hard start but now after two moths I can say that it better and better every day I am playing. Thanks for your lessons really :)
hey. i just started bass and i really like ur lessons. umm i want to know the best way to the best way to learn the notes on the bass. i have no idea how to read music and i just wanted to know the best way to start and go about doing it. can u send me an email on how to start hahah
hey man, i watched all ur videos and did everything you told me, 6 months later and im a pretty good bassist now and in a band, never got to thank you for helpin me out. Id recommend any young beginners to watch your vids. peace out...
Man you are a very good instructor. I remember you from the youtube days.
*the perfect teacher*
You're amazing man thanks so much! Never had a lesson in my life but now I'm already in a band! 8D
First time Ive ever picked up a bass, Im loving the beginner lessons!! Thnx!
Kris/Dman thanks for evrything!!ur the best!!
Thank you for the excellent job you do of teaching bass! And the fact that you've made music theory make sense to me is a miracle - i've bought books and attended lessons on this dry but extremely important subject without gaining much at all, but your single (free) video lesson on this finally opened it all up for me. You made 'theory' make practical sense. Thank you! If this is what you teach for free, I'm definitely buying your premium lessons. You're the best!
i got a job as a bass player without having a bass...now av got a cpl but am real rusty[been playing guitar for a few years you see] can get around the neck pretty good but you take it to another level..love the lessons and not ashamed to say am starting at your 1st beginners lesson..gets rid of my bad habits..thanks for your hard work and dedication
pat.
Thank u so much 4 evrything!! I picked up a bass 8 yrs ago and put it down because i got discouraged. i bought a new bass and I thank u so much 4 your free lessons because its really hard to pay for lessons and you r truly going to be blessed from this!!!! Thank u so much for yout time and your gift!!!!
Love Siobhan Gabrielle"bhanii" your lady bassist!!!!!! God bless You
Dman I just decided to pick up my bass after putting it off for so long then came across your site and man you got me proper revved up and motivated thank you very much, bless up
just wanted to say thanks as the sites great as its finally got me wanting to pick up my bass and the beginners bass evolved premium lesson helped alot im gettin betta everyday, although think the missus gets annoyed at me always being on my bass, cheers again and keep up the good work
dman, thanks for all your help. you have givin me tons of ideas to work with, along with making me a much better bass player. i wouldnt pay for any other lessons!
thank man.. you have been a major help!!! i had this bass for 3years and just kept it in the case the whole time until i seen your youtube.. thanks again.. an im a try to stick with it, cause like you said.. if we stick with you we will learn how to play!!
aieet dman. been doin the slap/pop evolved 4 about 2 weeks now and its going sweeeeeeet man. helping loads-peace and thanks
Thanks for the awesome free lessons; they actually make me want to buy your premium stuff.
Hi man brilliant lessons first of all your a fantastic help. i was just wondering wot bass you would advise for around 450 as your expert opinion is very highly regarded many thanks and just brilliant.
I must say your work on this site and on the video lessons is awesome.Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much man, your lessons are REALLY helping me out. I've been playing the violin for about 13 years now, and my musical experience with that is helping me some, but it's still a big transition. You're a fantastic bass player and I'm really getting a lot out of your lessons. Thanks again for everything!
can you please do a bass lesson on Holy Wars by Megadeth. Its a very fun song i think you will enjoy it and i want to see where you take the song as a bassist.
I'm 16 years old, and I got my bass 6 months ago.. I was pretty happy with it for a month or so till I got bored with it... For the Christmas Holidays I was bored so I picked up my bass and started to watch youtube video lessons... I opened a few tabs and I was bored as hell of all the proffesional players who teach way too fast for me ( or anyone to understand) and the last tab was your video luckily... Your teaching is easy to understand and you're a pretty nice guy yourself... :D You have made the bass guitar interesting for me once again, I am now practicing 2-4 hours per day, and know over 20 songs, from beginning to the end :D. Thank you Dman
Iv been playing electric guitar for about a year now. I just got a bass for christmas. Iv been playing it like 3 days now and i can play it very well. Noone teaches as clear and smooth as you. Your lessons are very easy to understand. Keep up the good work Dman
thank you so much. ive been playing for a while, and even as a more experienced player im finding these very helpful. im giving bass lessons tomorrow-im 13 and hes 47-and one of the first things im doing with him is recommending your site
I think im going to use your videos to teach me bass as you are very clear and easy to understand, thanks for the service and i will let you know how i get on! :)
I loved bass from back in the early 80's with the likes of mark king,all ways wanted to have a go, now in my mid 40's and browsings the web and youtube came across DMAM vids and web page,this guy inspired me and with the down to earth leasons , i just had to get my first bass and have ago, 1 week later been praticing and now have the bug,and all ready got my eys on a ibanez SR300, :0) damn you im hooked ,, keep up the gret work ant the premium leasons are great.
well done dude and have a great xmass as i know i will now that im playing the bass at long last.
cheers :0)
I've been teaching for over twenty years now, and playing in a well known jazz band for over thirty. My son recommended I tried to teach online, so I had a look at what other teachers had to offer. Time and time again i've run into videos and sites that are lacking in communication and knowledge. However "Dman" has something here that should not be missed. I've never seen anyone teach in such a way. I will be pushing my students towards this site, because to be honest it is a breath of fresh air. God bless - JE.
Dman is the man.
Website is full of excellent, practical and more importantly, musical advice that everyone can use.
great job these lessons are easy to fallow and i pick them up fast every thing is broken down to a simple format and what paid content there is is really cheap and well worth it
Just wanted to say a BIG Thank You for this site I have just had a bass bought me to help my partner who plays guitar, i'm getting on a bit now (37) never thought I would be able to pick it up but I have achieved a couple of your practice riffs and I'm amazed can't wait to learn more.
Loving all the lessons, Is there any where I could go to get a walk through lesson of Free's Mr Big, Bass solo? I'd love to play it, but just can't seem to get it down.
Thanks allot for this site!!! I've just orderd my bass an can't wait to try all of your lessons!
i just started playing bass two weeks ago and found your site. i love your lessons. very easy to understand and learn. i have a lesson every night.
thanks for taking the time to put this site up.
Hey man i just came across your site recently and its really helped me improve my playing.I am learning slap and pop at the moment and thinkin about buying the musicman stingray much the same as the one you play.What do you think? by the way this website rocks!
Man, I love this website ! :D
You should be famoius man. I mean REALLY famous!!!
amazing bass lessons i learnt 3 songs in a week
Very cool, not nasty notes to learn, just learn how to use the bass. I love it!!
Your lessons are amazing. thank you for everything.
DMAN!
Hailing from landmark, manitoba, canada, im a intermediate bass player working nights with no time to see a teacher and miles away from friends that i could jam with tight scheduales. Your free bass lessons have and currently are helping alot! Keep it up bro!
NIck
I juss wanted to extend my thanks to you for your hard work and dedication. you're doing a great thing for beginner bass players like myself who could barely afford a bass guitar, let alone pay for lessons. i really wish i could pay you for your services, they've been a real help... thanks again Dman. haha. i look forward to all your stuff bro. late. p.s. if i become famous ill definately mention you dude. -Nate
hey dman you lessons reall help alot. thanx for puttin this shit up for free. there need to be more people like you in this world. RockOn!!!!!!
Absolutely love all of your work! you made me play the bass ;)
too bad the 'pretty little ditty' lessons aren't working though, i was really looking forward to that :(
maybe you can fix it? :D
like, you're awesome.
Just dropping by to say how amazing the lessons are, ive taken around 1 every 2 days, and doing my best to master the techniques shown by his videos, and I keep on practicing each day from the basics to the more intermediate stuff, until I understood how to mix it up and start learning my own techniques, and I still come back to learn more and to review certain lessons, and I have been playing for a good year and a half.
i got to say, his lessons saved me from stopping, now i got myself a gig, and learned plenty of my own techniques using the techniques given by his lessons.
For those who want to learn and get better, just keep on practicing each day everything you learned from the lessons, and in time you will see yourself saying âjust a month ago I had trouble doing this, now I can do it as if it were second natureâ
keep up the amazing work D-man, if I can learn from your lessons anyone can.
dude u rellli are a selfless guy, i got my bass bout week ago and ure da only person who teaches bass perfectly, i mean ur an amazing bass player and u dont charge for your website videos, and uvee truly inspired me to carry on learning bass soo for dat ii thank u :D
just thought i should say thanks a lot...i've learned more in the last half hour watching your vids on youtube then in the last year! Keep up the good work man
Just bought a Gripmaster....Ooooft! my pinkies are getting a work out i tell ya! x
hey dman your lessons helped me alot i wonder can u upload any metallica songs lessons i mean how to play them. i am a metallica fand i want to know more songs on bass so if u can that will be helpful thanks
Damnit Dman the world needs clones of you! id order myself a Dman clone off ebay anyday. You, wooten, flea, and bootsy collins are the reasons i picked up bass. Million thanks!
Dman,
Without you I wouldn't know the first thing about bass. Thank you for everything and keep the lessons coming.
Ive been playing for around a month and ur lesson have helped loads, ive put u on my youtube and bebo accounts to help ; )
Thank a Bunch Man Ive been Playing for 7 months now And your Site as Helped me Heaps.
Sam
Adelaide, Austraila
Thank You very match for free lessons!!! Keep it up, best regards from Poland :)
Dman,
Awesome site. Another nice addition my learning stable. Thanks for the lessons.
hi well done on yer site i have just started playing bass at 47 thanks for the help online site just cool and made easy.
i am looking forward to trying some of your lessons out. i just wanted to say thanx in making a site that doesnt have alot of talking about playing and actual playing
You have inspired me to try out playing bass, thanks a lot.
Dude you are awesome! I just got my bass guitar today and with your site i'm learning songs left to right.
hah man this sight is awsome teaches me alot of cool stuff..this sight is how i learned to slap and pop
This Sight Is Da Bawm!
Man i really like what you are doing...You are simply great and you do something that you like and you are willing to teach it to others for free...thats a very nice thing you re doing...Gongratzulations and also u are the perftect teacher for me as well!!!! Thanks Again Chris From Greece :D
Thanks a lot for beeing the best teacher for me! Hope be as good as you are one day!
Best regards dude!
Hi the dude!
I´m so far away from you, here in Brasil! But be sure that you are my best teacher so far! I never got any lessons on bass all I´ve learned was with you! Thanks a lot for this web-sitte and youtube videos! I wish be so good as you are one day!
Best regards dude!
I've searched the internet up and down for lessons. I paid over 100 dollars for DVD's that were confusing and badly made. THESE lessons by THIS man are by far the best you will get on the net today. Trust me-I know!
dude you are badass. i've just been watching your videos on youtube and they've convinced me to give bass a shot. there are so many tutorial videos by random american country folk in their 60s who are no doubt good at what they do, but i find the lessons are far more effective when the teachers is on the same level as the student, that's what makes you stand out and that's why i'm coming back here as soon as my bass arrives!
Spent about two hours replaying your vids lastnight and it was f*#ckin awsome...home from work now and the first thing I do is start watching and playing gain. You've got a gift with this teaching business cuzzy...keep it up and i'll never stop watching and learning.Cheers!
You such a legend!
Shot bru!
I'm so happy with what you taught me the first beginners riff was so easy i picked up the beat like the second time I played it I really like how you teach thanks a heap!!! dude you're just amazing!
great guy. these are the kind of lessons that's going to get people somewhere. just don't sell out.
-sean ashby
hi. you are amazing at bass and also at teaching. i just wanted to ask if you could please teach some killers or kings of leon basslines. i also would like to know the bassline to money by pink floyd.
thanks again.
Thankyou, you are a brilliant teacher.
brown album and hancock?!?!?!? amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! been watching ur youtube videos 4 about 2 hours now........
I just got my basstoday and have lernt so much in a few hours thanks to u. if i had a job and income id totally send u a donation. thanks bro
Hi,I've been learning Bass for about 6 Months now.I watched you lessons on line, it has been very helpful.One day I hope I can be as good as you. Catch you on the flip side.
Hey, I got a bass guitar today and I am already playing stuff, I've also nearly learnt where all the notes are, all thanks to you! Hopefully one day I'll be as good as you.
you are the most awesome bass teacher ever when my m8s have tweedy guys thanks biggit up from engerlamd manchestorrrr
Kris, you have single handedly taught my class how to play bass guitar. If that isn't enough to make you proud, then also know that a lot of teenagers think you're a "cool" guy! Thankyou, and thankyou again. James Ederton.
dude you are awesome.
i remember seeing you on youtube and i thought you were australian..
stupid but true.
anyways dude you are insainly awesome,i hardly never play my bass but now that i understand it i play it every day for hours!
thanks man,your a HUGE help.
love from new zealand!! :)
hey man, i just picked up the bass and after viewing you vids and your page i have to say that you are one of my biggest inspirations. you make me want to play all day but unfortunatly the parents tell me to keep it down !, haha
anyways, thank you for all you have done so far and keep doing what you do !
Much love from California !
I've always had a bass.....,but i never played it ,after looking at your vid's, i play 3 to 4 houers a day, and i simply love it!!!! i can't stop playing!!!!!i want to learn more and more...., im going to play...
Thanks Dman. You have to be one of my biggest inspirations. You are truely awesome. Keep playing man and keep teaching.
Thanks - TheLampMan (James)(Australia)t
To describe Dman in just one word is impossible. But with one sentence, it is doable. I'm just gonna go ahead and say, I have had manyh teachers for many different subjects in my life. Dman, has been the best one I have ever had, and I haven't even met him face to face! It is really awesome to see an instructor so willing to teach his students. And not just willing, having fun while he's doing it. All though, I do feel bad for him, because he has so many students but he doesn't get to see the majority of them progress. Thanks for all the hard work dman!
Top stuff. I travelled for a couple of years, meeting lots and lots of guitarists who I thought were high quality. However not many could teach or get across their knowledge and I think you do that very well. I'm swapping my guitar for a bass ASAP!
I like your tutorials, I just got my bass yesterday and was wondering if I had to do streches and looked on you page when learning how to finger walk and now I now. Thanks man
Thank you for teaching as, and GOD Bless you and your family
u taught me more in like 15 mins than my friend in 4 days
finally someone who actually explains things properly and starts from the basics! im dedicated to learning the bass man and im gonna start studying your videos hardout. cheers!
just found all your videos, can i just say thank you!. you have such a great way of putting things across and you talk a lot of sense mate! its helped me loads with slap bass already!.
keep them coming my friend!
yeah yoou are actually an awesome teacher and you seem like a really cool guy, THNKS
:))
"Great lessons, Dman. You have a really friendly and informative way of teaching the bass, and it's really helping me learn it (just started playing 5 days ago, and loving it!)
I would love to see longer+more informative lessons on your site, keep up the great work, mate!"
"i think ur videos have helped me more than any others....some ppl dont know how to respect and appreciate good bass players like you....thanks for ur help...
"Honestly,I am a huge fan. HahaI've recently been trying to improve on my slap, and these are always great videos.Not only are you an incredible bass player,you must have the coolest/friendiest attitude as well. As cheesy as that may sound. HahaI wish I had an accent as well. :( ahaStay funky!
" just started playing the bass about a month ago, but your videos have probably been the biggest help when it came to me practicing out the slap and pop. Oh, and the hand excercises were exactly what I was looking for :)
I love these videos of yours, they keep me going when things get too hard. Keep it up -Mecrac"
"Wow you are by far the most helpful bass teacher i've ever seen, infact you explain things so wonderfully, these exercises really helped me a lot, if anything they allow my fingers to move much faster. -Masterdonmaniac"
"hey,you're just such a legend champ! i'm already 23 and i just started to learn bass guitar but i got little background in playing acoustic guitar but i sucks.. :( do u think i'm too old to learn it? can u please give me few tips that could help me and inspire me. my email add is *********** thanks you so much and thanks for your free lessons here at youtube, we really appreciate it so much! peace out-Samaslub"
"Thank You So Much Dude! this was excactly what i was looking for, ive been playing for just over a year and can slap but i needed something to make it flow better and actually sound good, your videos were a definate help to take me to the next level keep up the amazing work man!"
"hey great vids!! am going to buy myself a Bass guitar soon, annoyingly mine are more expensive because im left handed! haha added u to my faves cos ur vids are exc"
"getting a bass in a week from now, and i also whatched all ur vid, and its realy easy to understand and im not eaven from the UK :P, but yeah a HUGE thanks for the vids. hope there will be more of these here on youtube!"
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Awesome lessons! Thank-you for giving back to the community so much. There is much good karma coming your way. Cheers