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.
It is actually easier to learn than either guitar or piano, but if you play guitar or bass or piano, then much of what you already know will directly translate to speed your learning of this fun new way to play music.
For this new instrument, we have developed a powerful new method of play, which we think you will find simpler and more powerful than other methods from the past. In addition, the method we present in this method book ("Easy Touch-Style Bassics") will also make learning simple and powerful on specialty instruments made by several other manufacturers, and for instruments utilizing several different tunings.
MAKING LEARNING EASY
The key to rapid progress in this new method book is that each hand can operate in exactly the same manner to produce exactly the same notes.
On most other instruments your hands are forced to operate differently. For example, when you play a piano, to go up the scale, your left hand moves toward its thumb, and your right hand moves toward its little finger. So you must operate your two hands differently to produce the same notes! And with normal guitar or bass, you must use one hand to fret the string, and the other hand to pluck the string! Again notice that you use your two hands completely differently to play a sequence of notes, and to play the same notes higher on the neck, still the hands must be operated differently.
Think back, and remember when you were a child, the first time some grown-up asked you to pat your head while rubbing your tummy. It's inherently difficult for a human to do; we are just not built that way. So here, for the first time, is a method book that works the way a human works. Learning the "Easy Touch-Style Bassics" way is more like patting your head and patting your tummy too. Both hands operate just the same way. Much easier.
The breakthrough given in this new method book is that, with the simple approach spelled out in this 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.
DOES IT WORK ON GUITAR OR BASS
Well, yes and no. In order to play on an instrument with both hands at the same time, it helps wonderfully if the instrument has lots of strings, so that your left hand has some strings and your right hand has some other strings. If the two hands must always be fighting over the same strings, playing gets complicated quickly.
For this reason an 8-string bass is considered the smallest instrument on which you can most easily use this simple and powerful method. (If you are an accomplished musician, you may be able to adapt the method to a normal guitar or bass, but it's not recommended; it's so much easier and more powerful to just get a specialty instrument with more strings!)
WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR SPECIALTY INSTRUMENTS
This method has been developed specifically for specialty touch-style instruments such as the Mobius Megatar, the Warr Guitar, the Chapman Stick, the Bunker Touch-Guitar, the Box Guitar, or the Solene. (All trademarks listed here are the property of their respective owners.)
This method will work well on instruments with two "regions", that is, two separate groups of strings such as one group of strings for bass and another group for melody. This method will also work on 8-stringed instruments whose strings are all in one "region", such as Warr Guitar's 8-string bass.
This method will work within a number of the string tunings commonly used by "touch-style" players, such as the Mobius Megatar "BassBottom" tuning, or the "Inverted-Fifths" bass-strings tuning favored in the past by Chapman Stick players, or in the "Straight Fourths" tuning of the Warr Guitar 8-string.
Can the method be adapted to instruments with lesser numbers of strings or other tunings? With diligence on the part of the student, the method can be adapted to other tunings and blank chord charts are supplied in the book to assist in your independent efforts. Adapting to instruments with lesser numbers of strings would, in our opinion, be much more difficult. It would be far easier just to get a specialty touch-style instrument! (We repeat: this method is specifically compatible with the specialty touch-style instruments listed above, and is not recommended for standard guitar or bass instruments.)
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HEAR EXAMPLE SONGS --
To hear songs played with the "touch-style" technique given in the Easy Touch-Style Bassics 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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EASY-TO-LEARN "BASS-BOTTOM" TUNING
This method also reveals that, 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 exactly 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, and thus less to learn to start playing!
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.
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 Bassics 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 the Easy Touch-Style Bassics method book, simply return method book CD (in same condition) within seven days for immediate refund of your purchase price, exclusive of shipping costs."
INCLUDED WITH YOUR BOOK-ON-A-CD
Your Easy Touch-Style Bassics method book includes several bonuses on the CD ...
- (1) the method book includes a concise songbook which includes six "standards" (Autumn Leaves, Fly Me to the Moon, Only Trust your Heart, and others)
- (2) the method book includes additional songs built on the same chord sequence, for additional study
- (3) several of the sample songs are recorded as MP3 files and included on the CD
- (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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