1. Basics. A set of very simple shapes that will underlie scales, chords, basslines and more.
2. Bass. How to play walking bass with four rules. How to play bass hooks. How to play bass and rhythm patterns at the same time for great variety. All these come from the basics learned in book one.
3. Melody. How to read and play melodies from leadsheets, while playing left-hand chords. Both melodies and chords are learned from the basics in book one.
4. Improv. How to make up new melodies on the fly over any song with chord symbols. This is done very simply from basics learned in book one.

These books are sold on EBay and at http://learn-mobius-megatar.com

However, they’re provided free on CD with all new Megatars.

In many cases, I’ve also them for free to any registered Megatar owner who has bought his instrument used. (Serial number and purchase details requested for registration at http://megatar.com/megatar-reg/)

No Megatar player needs to suffer, as some of us have suffered in the past.

The approach in these books, according to many, is easier and faster to learn than some other methods. (Others will argue the point.)

Further, although our methods will work whether you play BassBottom or Chapman-style Inverted-Fifths bass, in my own experience, learning is far faster and simpler using BassBottom tuning.

We can do this the easy way.

Or we can do this the hard way.

So it just boils down to this …

Do you feel lucky?

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No?

Well, please visit our ‘Learn to play Chapman Stick, Warr Guitar, and Mobius Megatar’ website!

There you will learn about –

• Book One — Learn the Bassics. Remarkably simple and clear method. Permits training both hands at the same time. One method works on three different tunings.
• Book Two — Learn to play basslines, plus bass hooks, and learn how to read rhythm in standard notation. All surpisingly easy to learn and easy to use.
• Book Three — Learn to play melodies, and how to read them in standard notation. Thought you couldn’t learn to read? Be startled at how easy it is to learn … with the right method.

INFO YOU’LL FIND ON THIS GREAT WEBSITE –

Learn Chapman Stick, Warr, Mobius Megatar — Quick and Easy!

Play Bass and Walking Bass

Learn Chapman Stick or Megatar — Playing Melody and Chords

Two-Handed Tapping Improvisation Made Easy

Order Two-Handed Tapping Method Books — Immediate Download

Two-Handed Tapping Articles to Learn Chapman Stick and Mobius Megatar

Two-Handed Tapping Newsletter and Free Lessons

About The Easy Touch-Style Method

How to Contact Us

Our Privacy Policy

Other Interesting Websites

Voltos Industries Websites

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But in the press of moving to the mountains, setting up the shop all over again, installing and programming our new CNC machinery, and getting back into making touch-style basses, the newsletter fell to the wayside.

Well ….

It’s baack!

And better than ever. Delivered by email, in an easy to read format, the first issue of the MegaTapper News carries –

** An article on ‘motors,’ which are simple, repeating left-hand patterns so you can chug along while playing melody or improvising with the right hand.

I remember talking with Frank Jolliffe years ago — he was once well-known in the two-handed touch-style field, and he’s a great improviser — and he told me that, although it appeared that he was improvising with both hands, in actual fact he was switching his attention quickly back and forth, and he had a lot of left hand ‘motors’ to keep going while his right hand improvised.

So I made a study of ‘motors’ and discovered seven different kinds of motors, and breaking it down simply like this, it made it easier to learn one at a time.

I’ve actually written lessons about these motors, and it just so happens that the first one is being published in the new Mobius Megatar newsletter, first issue going out this week.

** Plus you’ll discover an intriguing series called (Easy Touch-Style) ‘Chordology’, which will make chords, and chord substitution and re-harmonization clear and easy, using a simple and new way of looking at chords and harmony.

** Plus … Tappy Tips … and more!

So if you haven’t already done so, I invite you to sign up for the free MegaTapper News here –
http://www.megatar.com/english/news…newsletter.html

Here’s to speedy learning, music, and fun. It makes life more enjoyable!

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Now available online — an instrument demo, with songs, to provide an overview of how the instrument is made, so that you can see and hear it in use. The video not only shows how easy it can be to play two-handed touch-style, but displays our most basic instrument, the TrueTapper Eclipse.

The Eclipse is a high-end, quality instrument with brilliant sound, so that any professional musician can feel completely comfortable using it for studio recording, with all essential high-end features included. However, the Eclipse is priced so affordably that any student with a summer job can obtain the instrument.

The video also shows U.S. Manager Traktor Topaz playing two songs. (The second song is an improvisation on the same chords as the first song.) This performance shows several of the techniques that are easily learned using our ‘Easy Touch-Style Method.’

And so, for your elucidation and entertainment, we present –

PS: This is the same instrument that was used in the earlier ‘Easy Touch-Style Method’ video. However, this video was not recorded on the Mobius Space Station, which had been rented out for a party for Google executives.

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We’ve completed the first video of the “Easy Touch-Style Method” series. The purpose of the series is to provide a demo of how easy it can be to learn two-handed touch-style play using the streamlined method developed at Mobius Megatar.

The first video is an ‘Introduction,’ which simply explains what touch-style is, and provides a demo of how one can play by touch. It then shows why having more strings makes playing easier, and shows how clear it is when both hands can move exactly the same. Then, using four simple chords, we demonstrate –

• How to arpeggiate chords in both hands using only nine notes
• How to then change that to play roots and harmony notes with your two hands
• How to use those bass roots to play left hand chords
• How to use those harmony notes while playing walking bass inside the nine notes
• How to play dual melody in both hands.
• How to play chords and improvise
• How to play chords and melody.

And so, for your elucidation and entertainment, we present –

PS: If you are wondering, the instrument used in the demo is our most basic instrument, the TrueTapper Eclipse. The audio recording was done entirely in Guitar Rig 2 with minimal effects. And, as you can see, the demo was filmed in the Mobius Space Station engine room.

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