The ultimate interactive software-based virtual bass teaching and practice workstation, for the serious student looking for the ultimate in a completely integrated system, that will transform you from a frustrated, unsatisfied player to one with a whole new level of proficiency and understanding of the bass - more than you ever thought possible, and to a level of understanding that most people never have the opportunity of attaining in their lifetime.
Learning to play the bass is outright overwhelming for most people who attempt to really get their mind around the fretboard, the music theory, the musical application and the big picture, which is all necessary in order to really have a truly confident and rewarding experience with the bass in this lifetime.
It is one thing to learn some songs and get enough playing skill to impress others, and quite another to have any real clue about anything that you are actually doing. It is not about what you should or should not do with the bass. However, it is about personal desire, and it is better for the student of the bass to do what they want with music and their bass by choice. Not because they feel they are never going to be able to "get it" in any real way, or because it is all so complex and overwhelming to really be able to understand and apply in a pro level capacity.
Many players, even ones whom you may think are good, satisfied players, are very unsatisfied with their knowledge and proficiency with the bass and musicality as a whole.
Yes, it is easy to pick up and "get jamming" at some level fairly quickly, but another to really have a high level of proficiency with the instrument and its musical world. Some may play extremely fast, but still be limited in their understanding of the fretboard and totally limited in their full comprehension of musical knowledge and application.
The time spent learning and practicing the bass compared to the amount of real progress made for most people is highly unbalanced. This program will change that equation.
- Breakthrough, cutting edge learning - via both revolutionary teaching methodology and revolutionary teaching technology and presentation.
- For the first time ever, you have access to a system that will "get you there" as fast as you can without cutting corners.
- The fastest way to understand and apply the complex world of scales, chords and arpeggios on the fretboard as easily and as thoroughly as possible.
- The fastest way to understand and apply the musical knowledge that is so essential and so understood by all of the pro players.
- The most efficient, time saving way to get it all done without having to quit everything else you are doing in life and go sit on a mountain top for years trying to figure it all out.
Lesson Navigator
- It is the incredible simplicity and ease of lesson subject navigation in regards to a vast compilation of material, that makes the Lesson Navigator so impressive. This is a common theme throughout the features and methods and tools of this entire program, which is making everything you use, see, and study easily accessible, useable and understandable. That is innovation in itself.
- The highly structured and precisely designed organization of subject matter is entirely unique. This alone gives the bass student a window of understanding of how to approach, think about, and practice the world of bass and musical knowledge.
Virtual Teacher
- This is simply the ultimate evolution in bass instruction, combining the real person with the virtual bass fretboard and a virtual blackboard.
- Hours of guided audio/visual instruction with complete user playback control.
- Better than any other form of instruction, due to the unique design of the virtual teacher that has not been available until now. The ability of the Virtual Teacher to discuss and visually show in an incredible level of detail the concepts being taught, instantly cuts through years of confusion that bass students face. This is due to the inability of the student to find quality instruction to begin with, and in addition, of the inability of the traditional teacher to present the concepts in the clearest manner possible because of the inherent limitations of current teaching tools used in all teaching mediums including online bass lessons.
- Lessons can be studied over and over again at your convenience with the ability to quickly and easily navigate all parts of each lesson.
Virtual Fretboard
- The ultimate fretboard display system. See, Hear, and Play-Along-With thousands of MIDI fretboard demonstrations.
- The multi-track, multi-fretboard presentation sets an unprecedented and cutting edge standard for a graphical fretboard display. It gives you everything you need for a fun, interactive experience. It also gives you the "extra" and "essential" display information that is absolutely necessary to really learn from the graphical fretboard.
- Turns your computer into an unparalleled bass instructional and practice workstation.
- There is no room for questions as all relevant information is displayed in real time such as scale, chord and arpeggio names, pattern names, notes, degrees, fingerings, and more. Color coding highlights notes, degrees, strum direction, and specific note playback.
- Dual fretboard display allows you to see both rhythm and lead bass and Guitar playing at the same time. Rhythm and lead bass and guitar demonstrations are integral to the instructional system.
- Mixer control gives you the power to adjust playback for everything from tempo to track volumes and balances, step playback, looping and instrument selection.
Practice Timer / Tracker / Scheduler
- The absolute ultimate in efficiency, time management, discipline, skills tracking and development. A truly revolutionary concept and tool completely integrated into your bass program.
- Perform all of your practice sessions in timed segments. This allows you to do two things: manage your time, apply disciplined practice, and measure your progress. One way to use you timer, is for actual exercise practice on your fretboard. World class athletes, musicians, etc. all use measurements of time to measure their progress over time. This allows you do to that easily and effortlessly. Another way to use your timer is to manage your study and practice time in regards to various subjects, that is instead of neglecting chord practice for scale practice or music theory progressions study for some other subject, you can spend specific time segments on various subjects. Discipline is difficult even for those who are good at it. The timer helps you really focus on what you are doing for given period of time and this will produce dramatic results.
- Track all practice sessions with details. Tracking what you have studied or accomplished in a given practice session, will help you to look back over any given period of time such as a month, etc. and see what you have and "therefore have not" studied or practiced. Tracking will also be key to measuring your progress as for any given exercise, you can make your memo comments on how fast you practiced (the tempo), your clarity with that, and how much of the exercise or exercises you were able to complete in a specific time period.
- Schedule all practice sessions. Managing your time and disciplining yourself is the key to your success with the bass. This is based on your time spent with practice and study. Scheduling your practice and study sessions will help you really keep on track.
- In our busy and hectic times, we need all the help we can get to manage our time and get the most done in the least amount of time possible. Plus we want to progress significantly with our bass, and even if we have all the time and money in the world, we still need the right combination of discipline, teaching methods and learning tools/technology to get there as fast as is possible for each of us.
Scrolling staff:
- See where the exercise is going ahead of time. It is helpful to be able to look ahead during playback to see what is coming up next while playing along with the fretboard.
- Set start points for playback. Set playback to start on any measure within the song, so you can instantly jump to a section that you need more practice on or that you want to take a closer look at for musical analysis.
- Set looping points for playback. Loop any section over and over for targeted practice.
- Great for step by step playback. Step through any exercise note by note for total playback control.
- Helps you develop rhythm and timing. Seeing the note values while hearing them being played helps with your development of rhythm and timing.
- Helps you to read music. See where the notes are located on the music staff in relation to the bass fretboard, as well as the duration of note symbols.
- Learn tablature. You will learn tablature by seeing how it relates to the fretboard.
Library
- An awesome array of scales, chords and arpeggios in all keys, all positions. This is no small reference tool that only lists a couple of scales, chords and arpeggios and a few positions for each. The amount of information in the Library is incredible!
- Not only do you see and hear everything on the Virtual Fretboard. You can choose between note names, scale degrees, and fingerings.
- Lets you select any number of scales, chords and arpeggios of any types or positions and put into a special section for comparison with each other to see important relationships.
- Lets you play along at your own pace using the adjustable metronome. It is one thing to just see certain patterns and another to hear them and play along with them so that you know you are playing them correctly. And so you can hear how they sound to see if you even like the sound of any particular type or pattern.
- Includes an interactive musical staff view that shows you all the information in notation as well.
The Ultimate In Content And Teaching Methodology
Aside from the powerful tools/technology shown above, is the actual quality, quantity, innovation of content and teaching methodology that the BASS MAGIC EVOLUTION bass lessons and exercises provide.
This teaching methodology is unique in that it starts off from the very beginning with a highly directed, professional and intensive learning path. It "insists" that you learn all the fretboard knowledge, musical theory and fretboard/musical application right away. Don’t be concerned with whether or not you are ready to learn the things that you need to learn. You just need to do it! The problem is that most aspiring bass players are not getting the level of instruction, skills and knowledge which they need, which is absolutely essential, to achieving any serious enjoyment out of the world of bass and music.
This program offers more than just a great quantity of great lesson material. An unprecedented level of thought and design with tremendous detail has gone into the development of every aspect of every lesson, concept, explanation and exercise.
You can and you will succeed to a level of self-satisfaction, confidence, understanding and application with music and the bass, if you simply go through this program, practice and study and to repeat, just do it.
The Ultimate Guided Core Practice System
- For the first time ever, you have an awesome guided practice system for your picking hand and fretting hand "fretboard curriculum". Designed to give you the fewest, most comprehensive number of drills and exercises to warm up, work out, and teach you the most comprehensive fretboard curriculum as fast as possible and to provide a long term core skill enhancement workout/practice system.
- One: Specific picking hand drills are used for warmup of the picking hand and more importantly for development of steady, consistent, accurate and fast picking moving from string to string as well as repetitive picking on any single string.
- Two: Specific and intensive fretting hand drills are used for warmup of the fretting hand and more importantly for development of speed, accuracy, hand strength, flexibility and finger stretch. Includes chord drills. The great factor about the comprehensive fretting hand drill is that it will take your fretting hand through a workout that you may not always get in any given practice session. Therefore you will always be developing maximum fretting hand potential regardless of the rest of your practice session that may not require the full range of movement covered in this workout.
- Three: The ultimate fretboard scale, chord and arpeggio step by step, guided, systematic, total practice workout with complete, full range fretboard coverage. You will learn a completely detailed, versatile, comprehensive system of scales, chords and arpeggios. See below under Scales, Chords, Arpeggios. And just as important, this gives you a long term, intensive practice system to develop to your speed and accuracy potential and your ability to be fluid on your fretboard to move and play anywhere you desire quickly, easily and with understanding of exactly where you are and what you are doing.
- This whole section was specifically designed to be used with your Practice Timer/Tracker/Scheduler for extreme skill development.
Scales, Chords, Arpeggios Complete
- Total integration is the theme of your scale, chord and arpeggio core study. These are not separated into subjects or into separate learning sections as individual entities. Scales, chords and arpeggios are taught both in fretboard methodology and music theory as one unit, all integrated together at the same time. This is the most logical, practical, fast and effective way to learn, understand and apply the essential building blocks of bass.
- The second approach to your scales, chords and arpeggios follows from an integrated approach to specific and separate (not-integrated) intensive studies and exercises. Together, both the integration of these, and the separate study of these, gives you the most detailed, thorough and complete study and practice with your scales, chords and arpeggios that you have ever had.
- All types of scales: Major with all Major/Minor Modes, Harmonic Minor and Modes, Melodic Minor and Modes, Whole Tone, W/H and H/W Diminished, Bebop scales. All types of pentatonics, major, minor, blues, modal pentatonics, dominant pentatonic, all 6 note pentatonics variations. All variations of these with degree targeting (see degree targeting).
- Master your scales with tremendous knowledge and understanding of what you are doing with them, why you are doing it, your options, and a total structured, mental and visual way to think about and apply them everywhere on your fretboard with maximum effectiveness. This complete system will give you not only a world class grip of your bass fretboard, but it will allow you to "see", "understand" and "apply" the seemingly "off-the-wall" application of scales that you sometimes may encounter when studying or learning various licks or songs from your favorite bass players.
- You will become more versatile and fluent than you ever imagined with the Whole Tone and the W/H and H/W Diminished scales. Unparalleled coverage of these, with a system that makes it easy to not only learn them fast, but to be able to do more with them and play them easily anywhere on the fretboard in with total versatility in a number of ways.
- Learn all chord/arpeggio types and extensions in the most complete, extensive manner, all over your fretboard from each string and multiple finger positions.
- Master arpeggios in a number of different ways. In-position, symmetrical, in segments, connecting throughout the fretboard. Transform your knowledge and ability to apply scales, chords and arpeggios with all musical concepts and theories throughout your fretboard with total confidence and fluidity .
- Transform your knowledge and ability to apply scales, chords and arpeggios with all musical concepts and theories throughout your fretboard with total confidence and fluidity to a level of proficiency and professional accomplishment that you never thought possible.
Ultimate Degree Targeting / String Degrees
- Degree targeting is the essential key of all soloing and improvising. The Degree Targeting exercises/lessons and the String Degrees method will give you the ultimate ability to perform with a higher level of musicianship than you could previously think possible.
- Revolutionary and completely unprecedented is the Degree Targeting system. This system provides exercises targeting every possible degree from every fretboard pattern for all major and minor based scales all over the fretboard. Including explanations for conceptually understanding what you are doing when targeting these degrees.
- Revolutionary and completely unprecedented is the String Degrees method. The String Degrees visual sound map is a powerful method and memorization tool for instantly and easily locating any degree that is inside or outside of any scale, chord or arpeggio from any point, from any position on the fretboard.
Complete Fretboard Studies
- Shapes / Fretboard Patterns systematic methodology. Mastering your fretboard with all chords, scales and arpeggios is done most effectively with a clear and simple method that you can quickly understand and utilize from the basics to a very advanced level.
- Modal relationships of all scales (major key modes, harmonic minor, etc.) to fretboard methodology for the fastest way to understand and apply "advanced scale and modal theory and concepts" easily and effortlessly.
- Complete and innovative Octave studies. Understanding and mastering your octaves is of tremendous value to understanding fretboard concepts and relationships.
- Complete and innovative Note on Fretboard studies. Mastering your notes on the fretboard is essential using your fretboard.
- Complete and innovative Interval studies. Understanding and mastering your intervals is a key to your fretboard patterns, degree targeting, chord/arpeggio makeup, patterns and extensions, and overall musical expression.
- Exercises with symmetrical patterns, 3 note per string pentatonics with various approaches, scale sequencing, sequencing using legato, string pairs, string skipping, shape skipping, pedal point all provide a thorough foundation and skill development for musical application with the bass.
Unprecedented Music Theory Studies
- Transform your understanding of music theory to a level you never thought possible. All integrated for maximum effectiveness, understanding and ultimate useable, practical application to a very high, professional level.
- You get a university education in music theory. There are theory concepts that teach you how to become not just a world class bassist, but also a world class musician. While other teaching environments use excuses such as "Well it just works", "Why" it works is also explained to you.
- Get the most out of the songs or artists that you are interested in. Learning a song note for note is fun and has benefits, but it does not do much for you if you do not understand what the artist is doing. You can't learn from it and therefore you won't be able to apply and incorporate the concepts into aspects of your own playing. It is also much more difficult and time consuming learning songs and licks when you have no idea of what the artist is doing.
- Play with other musicians with confidence.
- Write your own music, better and with more creativity.
- Jump into any style of music, rhythm or lead, with ease.
- Learn your introductory core scale, chord, and arpeggio theory and relationship to the fretboard like on a piano. For the first time ever, this complete introductory lesson dispels years of potential confusion by presenting the information on the bass fretboard in the same manner as a piano. The piano keyboard is 100% consistent in layout, making it easy and clear for the student to understand the essence of theory and that is what the bass player needs to get started.
- Learn all scale theory with all modes, variations, functions.
- Learn all chord / arpeggio theory with all extensions and functions.
- Learn from the ground up the whole foundation and application of scale, chord, arpeggio construction, theory, function and application.
- Learn Modal Tonality.
- Learn Harmony Tonality.
- "Pyramid of Improvisation" - the ultimate instant visual view of the relationships of scales to chords in regards to soloing and improvisation. Cut through a lifetime of confusion with the ultimate simple visual approach that instantly turns a complex subject into a clear framework.
- "Chord/Scale Function Guide" - the ultimate instant guide to the relationships of chords to scales in regards to "Function" which is the "Master Key" to understanding the big picture and micro detail of what your soloing choices are, and why.
- "Guide to Improvising and Soloing" - comprehensive, complete and detailed analysis of the approaches to improvising and soloing.
- In-depth analysis of Chords Progressions / Key Changes.
- In-depth analysis of Chords Substitutions.
- In-depth analysis of Scale Substitutions.
- Music theory is covered throughout the entire course. It is integral to every part of the instructional system. You are getting both traditional music theory, innovative modern theory, and conceptual and visual theory methods which altogether break through the barriers and limitations you'll encounter in current teaching approaches and methods.
Picking / Speed and Accuracy
- Complete analysis of picking - alternate/economy/with hammer - pull off - tap variations.
- Full analysis of approaches and ways to practice for greater speed and accuracy.
Music Reading
- Easiest / Fastest method to reading any note on any position anywhere on, above or below the music staff.
- Master the notation to fretboard translation. You will be able to accurately read the notes-i.e. E, G, F#, etc. from any part of the staff and exactly know where to play them on your fretboard.
Musical Examples / Highly Detailed - One of a Kind
- You will find nothing like this system anywhere for teaching and demonstrating the art of soloing and improvisation. The dual fretboards simultaneously show you rhythm and lead parts so there is nothing left for you to question.
- Due to the nature of the bass, musical examples will be used in three ways by the bass player. One: bass parts will accompany guitar parts. Two: bass leads examples will be shown with or without guitar lead examples. Three: the bass player will study the detailed guitar lead parts with detailed explanations for soloing and improvising study as well. All information and examples apply equally to the Bass player.
- Chord Progressions / Rhythm and "song structure" are an integral part of the musical examples.
- You will greatly develop your playing skills as you practice them. Full multi track rhythms and leads are integral to the lessons.
- You will learn in a very short time how to solo over any style of music, quickly, professionally and with confidence. In combination with your music theory lessons and the intensive and detailed explanations and visual demonstrations in the musical examples, you are shown from square one how to solo over any style of music, in any musical situation. This is also demonstrated and shown to you on virtual fretboards. You will be quite surprised at the truly revolutionary approach that will get you soloing and improvising like a seasoned professional player.
- All the 3 note per string, sweep arpeggios, chord arpeggio licks, pedal tone, pedal point, osstinatos are found in the licks throughout the styles and exercises in the program.
- Musical examples are demonstrated through various styles: Rock / Metal, Neo-Classical Fusion, Blues, Jazz, Fusion, Pop, Classical, Country. However, it is important to understand the fact that the goal is not to learn a particular style here. No matter what particular style you are most interested in developing, each example covers and demonstrates important concepts that are used by all artists in all styles.
- The theme of the musical examples is to just do it and to get down to business. If you are concerned or thinking about any particular style, you are missing the boat. Studying and practicing the musical examples will provide you a tremendous framework and pro level understanding and application of chord / song structure, rhythm, soloing and improvisation.
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