If you are looking for cheap gig bag – musiciansfriend.com TODAY ONLY gives away Musicians Friend Leather Trim Bass Gig Bag for $9.99 + shipping (street $39.99). Ratings are about 8.5. Just ordered one for myself.
Here is discussion on TalkBass.com about this bag.
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StudyBass.com is another site with online bass lessons. All articles are well illustrated and cover wide range of topics. There are lessons about basics, bass technique, reading music, practicing, common bass patterns, rhythm, intervals, bass scales and bass chord patterns. Every beginner or intermediate player could find there something new.
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Here is recommendations how to screw up your bass and make it tapping instrument.
No irreversible modifications except nut filing. Easy and fast. If you don’t want to invest into “Mobius Megatar” but want to try – all recommendations looks reasonable.
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One of my big influences to become bassist was Anatoliy Krupnov and his thrash band “Black Obelisk“. There are plenty of articles written about Anatoliy and history of “Black Obelisk” you can read on their site. Here is just random set of videos with this great bassist. All of his bass lines, fast or slow, complex or simple always perfect from first note till last one. He had He died in 1997 from heart attack in the studio while recording his solo album. Black Obelisk died with him. Right now Black Obelisk up from the ash and their “Green Album” is more like progressive metal than thrash one. Very professional and musical album.
Here is some Black Obelisk videos from YouTube:
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Everyone knows “Primus”, but only some people know “…I Drug Moj Gruzovik” (… and My Friend Truck) band from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Band was founded by bass player and drummer of funk-band “M.F.Launch” at 1997. They found vocals – Anton “Gruzovik” (Truck) to take part in festival “Karier” (Quarry). Since then Anton is author of all lyrics. From first rehearsals they start to play minimalistic bass’n'drum music without any style limitations – symbiosis of acid-jazz, funk, grunge, hip-hop, post-punk, city and country folk. At August 23th 1997 they had first gig on “Karier” where they had great success. Since then they had plenty of gigs in the clubs and festivals in the Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Israel and many other countries in Europe. They had a lot of interviews on radio and TV on web sites, magazines and newspapers. Right now they have 3 CDs and all songs there are the best. Every song is the hit. Every song is unique and you want to listen it over and over again.
Music of this group has very organic symbiosis of bass and drums. Bass lines has a lot of tapping, harmonics and chords on overdriven bass. Sometimes those lines are simple, sometimes – very complex. Rostislav (bass) never publish tabs of his songs – looks like they never exists.
Here is members of this amazing band:
You definitely have to take a look on those videos I’ve found on YouTube. Unfortunately their site has no English translation and you cannot order CD there to US or any other country or buy MP3 without account on WebMoney. This is very unhandy, but if I’ll have enough requests I can try to ask them to use PayPal or something else more suitable for US listener.
Enjoy.
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Joe Satriani Live in San Francisco
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Two more videos with Bill “The Buddha” Dickens and his band. I’m shocked.
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No comments. Just watch…
Bill is amazing. His guitar is amazing. Take a look on it:
Conklin GTBD-7 7 String Bass Guitar Wine
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thelibster:bass is the great site with tons of transcriptions, lessons and sounds. Excellent reading, chord and ghost notes lessons. I spent a lot of time with them and all lessons, exercises and samples are perfect and balanced. They are leading you to success step by step. There are also a lot transcriptions of bass lines with mp3 samples.
I cannot remember any other site with such selected and carefully presented free material. Be patient and attentive and you’ll definitely increase your skills.
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