Our company manufactures an unusual musical instrument called the 'Mobius Megatar'. This is a new type of electric bass and guitar in one instrument. On its wide neck are mounted six bass strings and six higher-pitched melody strings.
A NEW WAY TO PLAY!
By touching or tapping upon these strings with the fingers of both hands, you can play music. This method makes piano-like technique possible -- such as playing a left-hand bassline or chords, and simultaneous right-hand chords or melody.
BOOK TWO -- RHYTHM BASS
In Book One (Easy Touch-Style Bassics) we presented a new method of play, both simpler and more powerful than other methods from the past. We learned the easy way to train both hands -- at the same time -- to play chords, and we introduced "Rhythm Bass," which means playing basslines and simultaneous rhythmic chords.
The key to rapid progress in this new method book was shown to be that each hand can operate in exactly the same manner to produce exactly the same notes.
The breakthrough given in this new method book is that, with the simple approach spelled out in that book, you can use each hand in exactly the same manner to produce exactly the same notes. Once you've learned to play a scale (or a chord) with each hand, you can then practice with both hands simultaneously. And this "doubling up" during your learning time almost halves the time required to learn to actually play some music. Or, put another way, you learn twice as fast. Half as much time to learn to play twice as fast? That's a good thing.
MAKING YOUR BASS-PLAYING MORE POWERFUL
Since you learned to play simple Rhythm Bass in Book One, now we'll make your playing more powerful and fluid.
First, you'll learn more chord forms, in the simple format you already know, and you'll discover a surprisingly simple way to analyse common harmony progressions by means of a pattern we call floating - tension - settled.
You will see how this pattern occurs over and over and over again, and how to play this pattern in the chords you already know.
RHYTHM IS KING!
Next, we'll show you how easy it is to read rhythm in "Standard Notation," the common form of reading and writing music. Many musicians might have found Standard Notation to be less than clear when first encountered, but by analysing only the method for writing down rhythm, you'll discover that it's easy to read (and write) rhythms in Standard Notation.
Next we'll provide you with our Seven Bassic Rhythms. This is a small set of simple rhythms which you can use as a bass player on a wide variety of songs. You could probably make an entire career playing nothing but these seven rhythms. We'll show you how to play Root-Fifth patterns and how to play Triads on the Seven Bassic Rhythms, and how to play one rhythm in your bassline and a different rhythm in your right-hand chords. And, like everything in the Easy Touch-Style Method, you will discover that it's actually easy!
AND NOW, WALKING BASS
As you know, in jazz, the practice of playing "Walking Bass" provides much of the distinctive sound that gives the jazzy flavor. But did you know that Walking Bass can be created using four simple rules?
And did you know that learning to build Walking Bass lines teaches you how to provide free-form basslines under almost any type of music? And did you know that you can play Walking Basslines beneath your rhythmic chords, to be a bass player and rhythm guitarist at the same time?
In Book Two, Easy Touch-Style Rhythm, you will learn all these techniques to become a full-fledged bassplayer, and more besides.
EASY, STEP-BY-STEP GRADIENT
The key to rapid learning is to find the most useful building blocks, and to have each step build upon the last step in a clear step-by-step manner. This method is presented in 112 pages, and includes another 50 pages of bonus material. the material is presented in easy steps, including 372 illustrations.
Book Two should be studied AFTER Book One, where the basics are presented. You'll find that the basic method is surprisingly easy, and then here in Book Two, you'll find that adding powerful Bass Rhythms, reading rhythm in standard notation, and playing Walking Bass "by the numbers" will be pleasantly easy, powerful, and musical.
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HEAR EXAMPLE SONGS --
To hear songs played with the "touch-style" technique given in the Easy Touch-Style Rhythm method book, click on the recordings listed below. In differing styles, these songs were played on the Mobius Megatar instruments which we manufacture, using the two-handed touch-style method. When you hear a "bass" and "guitar", or a "guitar duet" it's just one musician playing both parts simultaneously! And the surprising thing is ... it's actually easier to learn than piano or guitar!
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PRESENTED IN EASY-TO-LEARN "BASS-BOTTOM" TUNING
This method assumes that you are using a specialty tapping instrument. (The techniques can be adapted to other kinds of bass or guitar, but is easiest on specialty instruments.)
As we will show, of all the tunings favored by touch-style musicians around the world, the tuning known as the BassBottom tuning appears to be the simplest and most powerful. In the bass region, strings are tuned the same as a normal 6-string bass, from Low-B up in fourths. In the melody region, strings are tuned in straight fourths, and slightly lower than normal 6-string guitar (for best tone). The dual straight-fourths tuning means simplified scale and chord-form layout, providing faster learning through simplicity.
This simple method permits you to place your left hand on bass strings, and your right hand on melody strings (much like a piano player does), and you can train your hands simultaneously on scales or chord forms, to make your learning very fast.
However, if you are using some other tuning, for example, the "Inverted Fifths" bass strings favored by Chapman Stick players, or if you're playing on an 8-string bass, a set of fretboard maps is provided in the appendix to make translation simple. With this unusual method, which works across several popular tunings, we operate initially within a framework of only nine notes (which are identical beneath each hand), and translating from one tuning to another requires only relocating that pattern of nine notes to a different place on the fretboard!
BOOK IS ON A CD
For shipping convenience and low cost, we have placed the entire method book on CD. Repeat -- this is not a printed book, but a book on a CD using the Adobe "Acrobat" format. (Free Acrobat reader available from Adobe permits you to print out the book or any desired pages from the book.)
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BONUS! -- $20 Discount Certificate!
As a special bonus, our company has included a Discount Certificate, good toward the purchase of any Mobius Megatar touch-style guitar and bass, worth twenty dollars. The certificate is good for one calendar year from the time you purchase the Easy Touch-Style Rhythm method book, and can be applied toward any Mobius instrument purchased either through our EBay "Megatar Store" or any custom instrument purchased through our factory website! Need we point out that the Discount Certificate gives you more than you paid for the method book?
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GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION
As with musical instruments and most other items sold by Mobius Megatar, this book-on-CD is sold under the Mobius Megatar GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION: "If less than completely delighted with Book Two, Easy Touch-Style Rhythm, simply return (in same condition) within seven days for immediate refund of your purchase price, exclusive of shipping costs."
INCLUDED WITH YOUR BOOK-ON-A-CD
Book Two, your Easy Touch-Style Rhythm method book, contains 112 pages and over 300 musical and graphic illustrations to lead you step-by-step, plus 50 pages of bonus and appendix sections, with additional bonuses on the CD ...
- (1) the method book includes a songbook of six practice songs
- (2) the sample songs are recorded as MP3 files and included on the CD
- (3) An easy-to-understand harmony analysis method, additional (optional) rhythm-reading exercises, and blank chord graphs are provided
- (4) a History of Touch-Style is included, with pictures of specialty instruments and notable players
- (5) a complete Mobius Megatar Owner's Guide, with additional information about the Buzz Feiten Intonation System (or how to set standard intonation yourself) is included on CD
- (6) One-year discount coupon good for a $20 discount on any new Mobius Megatar specialty touch-style instrument
- (7) seven-day Universal Guarantee of Satisfaction
SHIPPING
Your book-on-a-CD will be shipped within 3 business days in CD-mailer, via the US Postal Service.
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Would you like to learn more about the Revolution of the Touch-Style method, and about the specialty instruments manufactured by Mobius Megatar?
Happily, it's far easier than you might imagine to play bass and guitar at the same time, using the new "Touch-Style" method, on an instrument specially manufactured to make the method easier. This instrument is called the "Mobius Megatar". The Megatar contains both a set of bass strings and a set of melody strings on one wide neck, and these strings can be played just by touching the strings with your fingertips. It's like playing piano on bass and guitar, and it's actually somewhat easier to learn than piano, or guitar, or bass!
For more information about the method see our "MEGATAR STORE" right here on Ebay! Be sure to click the "quick-tour" links at the top of the Megatar Store, and get the surprising facts about the Touch-Style method, about the revolutionary Mobius Megatar instrument, and about the Megatar Store where we stock instruments available for immediate shipment.
See you at the Megatar Store!
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