They Just Get Younger….

… Or am i getting older

He really should be playing the music that people his age like, otherwise he isnt going to have a row of young female but old men wanting him to do ’Lessons in Love’

Bass Cheat Sheet

Hey guys, i found this awesome cheat sheet for bass players. It gives loads of information on things like music notation, scale patterns, circle of fiths ect. I would say its a must have for all bass players. You can get it from :

http://users.abo.fi/anhenrik/unix/Bass%20Cheat%20Sheet.pdf

All credit goes to Jamesr from sputnikmusic.com for creating and sharing this.

 

More to come soon guys on a new bass crash course book i am currently working through.

Today I’ Learning: Dmanlamius’ Lesson Tree

Hey guys, sorry I have not posted in a while. I guess life has kinda got in the way. Anyway yesterday I started following dmanlamius’ lesson tree for beginners on his website  http://www.dmanlamius.com/#/lesson-tree/4533744392 , I just thought I would let you all know what i thought about it.

As you guys will know if you have read some of my other posts I find dmanlamius’ lessons very useful. The way he approaches the subjects I find really appealing and  I have learnt more from him in a few videos then I have from the same amount of face to face lessons I had with a teacher.

The lessons started with an informal video discussing the issues related to tendon and nerve damage that can result in improper stretching and warm-ups. He then goes on to show a number of really useful stretches that everyone should use before playing.

This was followed by a lesson going into great detail about the different ways to tune a bass. He covers everything from using the 5th fret method to harmonic tuning and drop tuning. This lesson is a real must for all bassists not just beginners.

I found the following two lessons a great help as you are taught an actual bass line and given a beat to play along with. The bass line is simple enough that most beginners should be able to be play with a little practice. The great thing about they way dmanlamius teaches is he doesn’t just show you what you have to play, he walks you through the riff and shows you what fingers to use and where to place you hands.

If you are just starting out on the road to learning bass you could do a lot worse the follow dmanlamius. As I compleat the other videos/classes I will update my reviews here.

Google doodles a digital guitar on Les Paul’s birthday

New Delhi: Google has put up a digital version of the legendary electric guitar, the Gibson Les Paul, in place of its logo to celebrate the 96th birthday of the country and jazz guitarist, songwriter and inventor, Lester William Polsfuss, better known as Les Paul.

The Google doodle in honour of Les Paul is playable by hovering the cursor over the doodle. Les Paul was known for his innovative and experimental guitar playing style.

Born on June 9, 1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Les Paul developed an interest in music at the age of eight when he started to play the harmonica, followed by banjo and finally moved to the love of his life – the guitar.

He had formed his own Les Paul Trio in the 1930s and performed long with Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in the 1940s. He also had his own radio program.

He designed a solid body electric guitar in 1941, but it finally went on sale by the Gibson Guitar Company in 1952. He also pioneered the development of multi-track recording and invented the eight-track tape recorder and the technique of overdubbing.

In 1988 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2005 in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

He continued to play and perform live well into his 90s. In 2006, aged 90, he won two Grammys. Les Paul died on August 12, 2009. He was 94.

Google has now become more frequent with animated and interactive doodles. Of the last 10 Google doodles, five included animations or were interactive.

The Google doodle had first gone interactive in May 2010 to celebrate the 30th birthday of the popular Pac-Man game.

For a dozen years, Google has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a doodle. The Google doodles, an artistic take on the Google logo, have gained immense popularity over the past few years and the Google doodle team has put out commemorative doodles on numerous events of international or national importance, ranging from news events, civic milestones, birthdays, death anniversaries and important dates in history. Google estimates it has created more than 900 doodles since 1998, with 270 of them running in 2010. Some appear globally, and others are tailored for local markets.

 

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-doodles-a-digital-guitar-on-les-pauls-birthday/157783-11.html

Today I’m Learning: Beat It by Michael Jackson

So today i thought i would try and learn something funky and fun, after searching the net i decided to try that famous bass line “Beat It” by Michael Jackson. It was quite easy to learn and i would suggest that all beginners should try this riff. After playing it for a short time i realised that this riff could be adapted for use in everything from songs to jamming sessions.
I learnt this with the help of a video on youtube that was uploaded by an amazing player who goes by the name Dmanlamius76, He has an amazing array of videos for bass players to learn from. Here is the video:

The tab for the way Dman plays it is as follows:

[--------------11---8-8---10---8---6-6---]
[----------8-----------------------------]
[--6---9---------------------------------]
[----------------------------------------]

and then again, with the last note taken off
[--------------11---8-8---10---8---6-----]
[----------8-----------------------------]
[--6---9---------------------------------]
[----------------------------------------]

Thats a nice simple one to start with.

Big thanks go to Dmanlamius76 for this lesson and the inspiration, if you would like more information on him and his lessons, you can find them here:
Website: http://www.dmanlamius.com/
Blog: http://learnbass.net/
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Dmanlamius7

Why your there check out his amazing tune called Sleep, Melody, Sleep. Just amazing.

History Of The Electric Bass Guitar

Today I came across this really interesting article which explains thehistory of the electric bass guitar. It’s not something I knew much about before now and if discovering how bass guitars were in the past then this bass article is well worth a read.

The Birth of the Electric Bass Guitar

The electric bass guitar is fairly easily identifiable because the overall shape is quite different to the standard electric guitar. An electric bass guitar usually has a body which is much larger in size than a standard electric guitar, and the neck is often much longer, with the scale length used for the frets much larger too. The overall size of an electric bass guitar is the most obvious distinguishing feature that makes it easy to spot, but of course its extra size can cause trouble for beginners. If you are looking at buying an electric guitar, and are considering the bass version, then it will be important to try out one such example first. The physical size may, in some cases, prohibit effective use, and a standard sized guitar may prove to be a more suitable alternative.

An electric bass guitar usually has four strings which are tuned to the same pitch as the double bass, or in some cases the strings are simply tuned to be one octave lower than the lowest four strings of a standard guitar.

For the last fifty years, the electric bass guitar has been the instrument of choice for producing the bass notes in most popular music, causing a dramatic decline in the popularity of the double bass for such music. The electric bass guitar has proven to be a very popular instrument, not only for use within popular music, but as an instrument in itself, often used for solo performances. In particular, jazz, funk and rock styles often feature an electric bass guitar solo, or prominent performance within a piece.

It was actually back in the 1930s that the electric bass guitar was born, with Paul Tutmarc‘s invention – originally referred to as a fiddle. It comprised of four bass strings, had a body and a fret board – and was played horizontally. Named an electronic bass fiddle it proved to be very popular, and because its manner of playing was more similar to that of a guitar, it meant that it was easier to pick up by guitarists than a fiddle would have been for them.

Although Tutmarc’s fiddle marked the dawn of the electric bass guitar, it took about twenty years for the idea to take hold, and be developed by Leo Fender before it became a popular instrument. Fender created the Precision Bass, and took the rough form of a Telecaster with a single coil pickup. With four steel strings the instrument became popular with many well known bands and groups of the fifties, and it was at this point that the bass guitar became popular worldwide.

Following closely behind Fender was Gibson, whose bass guitars were generally smaller then fender’s, and incorporated a humbucker pickup rather than the single coils. Gibson’s most famous creation was the Thunderbird with a 34 inch scale, and duel humbucking pickups located halfway between the neck of the guitar and the bridge – a more usual position.

Today, electric bass guitars can be bought in a range of styles and shapes, although still generally larger than the standard electric guitars. For complete flexibility, however, you could always consider a duel neck guitar – with one being a bass, and the other a standard six string guitar!

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Article Source: EzineArticles.com

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Hello world!

Welcome to The Low Zone blog is logging the trials and tribulations of a 27 year old farther as he learns to play the bass guitar. Posts his favourite tabs and shares with you his love of music. So come along and join in. I look forward to chatting to you all in the future.

Let me start by showing you my 2 bass guitars. The first one is a simple PJ bass made by HasGuitars and is a relatively cheap model. I love its tone and looks.

 

The second bass is a bit more complicated. It started life as a 1979 Ibanez Musician before it was retrofitted with EMG Active PJ pickups, the headstock was altered and the whole thing painted metallic purple. Now these pics are from when i got her, i have since sorted the wood screw issue out. lol

So anyway, i hope to get to know you over time and share with you all my journey. Let me know what you guys think of my bass guitars.