Archive for the 'web' Category

BassPlaying.com

Relatively new bass site from authors of Wheat’s BassBook. A lot of useful info and alive forum.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Spalt Hybrid Bass Guitars

Very weird and nice shape and looks like they are very rare. But after some googling I’ve found some info about Matrix M-401, and then site of Spalt Instruments. Site looks very old, but with plenty of information, like gallery of hybrids and description of them. Prices on those guitars varies from $1250 to $3000.

Spalt MATRIX Prototype Orange Hybrid BassSpalt Matrix M-401 Bass5 String Multi-laminate Spalt Bass

As I mentioned above, more pictures you can see at Spalt Hybryd Guitars and Basses Gallery.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Studybass.com’s scale and chord tone printer 2.0

Great tool to print fretboard diagrams for 4,5,6-string bass, guitar, violin, banjo and other instruments. You can specify tuning, size and location of fretboard on page, mark degrees and notes of specific scales or chords, display location and notes of harmonics (very useful for me). It is very neat, but interface is a little tricky. Thanks, StudyBass.

fretboard.jpg

Popularity: 10% [?]

Ninjam servers status page

Recent outage of Ninjam servers shows all ninjamers we need more servers in different places. This nice page shows status of 10 known servers. Come on and play! :)

Popularity: 5% [?]

Open Mikes

If you are still not in a band – here is great site with open mikes listings. Every place accompanied by comments, maps and links to homepage. Nice resource for bandless musicians and musicians at all.

OpenMikes.net

Popularity: 5% [?]

StudyBass.com

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.

Popularity: 9% [?]

thelibster:bass

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.

Popularity: 7% [?]