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Some Basic Things in Choosing a Bass Guitar

admin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:20:28 +0000

Bass guitar could be important between another instrument. As my teacher told me that bass player is a “car machine” of a band, he/she moves the song more listenable. The deep sound character gives the completeness of harmonization when it’s fused with another instrument. The bass tone provides a background sound that can capture the attention of listener. (more…)

Bass Guitar Lesson : Pentatonic Scale

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:17:17 +0000

Pentatonic scales are very common and oftenly used by musician in improvisation, it could easily mix with another harmonic instrument because it’s based on theory of “circle of fifth”. In definition, pentatonic scale contains five pitch per octave in contrast to an heptatonic (seven note) scale. Here are the two general patterns : (more…)

Bass Guitar Lesson : Chromatic Scale

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:52:32 +0000

What is chromatic scale? It seems that you just need to sound each fret on bass guitar neck. It doesn’t sound have harmonization and you’ll be confused to enjoy it, without unification of harmonic/melodic scale such as diatonic and pentatonic. Like I said before, chromatic scale is notes from each fret, here is example for C=do : (more…)

Ibanez K5, Ibanez GWB1005

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:31:20 +0000

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Ibanez EDB700, Ibanez ICB200

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:29:37 +0000

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Fender American Vintage 57 Precision Bass, Fender American Vintage 62 Precision Bass

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:27:33 +0000

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Fender Classic 51 Precision Bass, Fender Mark Hoppus Jazz Bass

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:25:02 +0000

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Fender Geddy Lee Jazz Bass, Fender Classic 60s Jazz Bass

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:21:26 +0000

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Fender Standard Precision Bass, Fender American Standard Precision Bass Left Handed

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:19:41 +0000

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Managements in Making a Song

admin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:14:33 +0000

Creating a song is often confusing if we have to work together with another Band personal. There would be a lot of different song ideas origined from every brains since they have their own inspirations. It’s hard to construct a band with a close relationship between each player, so we have to bottom line that a band is similar with family, also a real brothers and sisters. Therefore, some managements will be helpful to rule the song creation, this allow us to analyze what we have and haven’t done yet with our creations. I often involve my band in a song creation, and based on my experience, there are four steps we need to arrange a song. (more…)