Vol.1- Turn It Up & Lay It Down...a play along CD made up of 20 different bass lines and click track. Every drummer knows how important it is to be able to lock in with the bass player. Well now you can finally work on this skill over and over at your own pace. This allows you to be as creative as you can and develop your own style while playing deep inside the pocket. These are real bass players to jam with.... Top session guys playing electric and upright grooves in the style of ..funk, rock, shuffles blues, swing, fast bop, and Latin.

Vol.2- VOLUME 2 features all new grooves in a more song form oriented format... more Funk , more Rock, Odd time signatures, Reggae, and some piano montunos to play on top of. This educational CD meant to be fun as well as a great ear training tool.

Vol.3- "Rock-it Science" features hip new bass lines w/ guitar accompaniment emulating MTV-ish ROCK feels. Almost 70 minutes of Jam time. Guaranteed to Improve Your Groove. Rock on.

Vol.4-"Baby Steps to Giant Steps" features NYC based jazz musicians on piano, guitar , upright bass and sax swingin' away at tempos starting at 100 bpm and slowly getting faster and faster until your blazing through the changes at 310 bpm. If you dig those smokey bars, Old K's and Round badges...This one's for you!

Vol.5-"Double Pedal Metal" is geared toward all you Metal fans who are eager to develop your double bass technique. The groves on this CD were specifically written to guide you through a challenging, fun & heavy workout. Crunchy chords, soaring leads & pumping bass lines leave it up to you to Rock the house.

Vol.6-"Messin' Wid da Bull" (Turn it Up Volume 6) features Funky 70's type grooves with a kick ass horn section made up of some of New York's top session guys. If you love that Blood, Sweat and Tears, Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, Tower of Power stuff...You'll love Messin' Wid da Bull. What do you get when you mess with the bull?...YOU GET THE HORNS!!!

Vol 7 - "Playin' The Odd's"
Turn it Up Vol 7...Playin' the Odd's is a fantastic tool for working on your Odd Time signatures... Here's a wide variety of odd time drumless backing tracks in Rock/Progressive styles.
 

Turn it Up & Lay it Down Samples

"Burnin' with Bernie"
These fusion-esque tracks are all drumless mixes from jazz bassist Bernard Lackners debut album “ThoseDays” and is a top notch release. He has played and recorded with artists including Mino Cinelu, Adam Holzman, Adam Nitti, Trip Wamsley, Marco Minnema

"Denny's Mix"
Welcome to Turn it Up & Lay it Down Volume 8 \"Denny\'s Mix\". This collaboration is the first in our \"Artist Series\" Play-Alongs and features the music of Smooth Jazz great Denny Jiosa.