Affix this patch (by sewing or ironing) to your favorite pair of jeans, backpack, bag, jacket, or luggage item to spruce it up and make it easier to identify!

This assortment of WHEATWARE guitar picks gives you the opportunity to try them all. Their smooth molded edges and Wheat bioplastic eliminate the pick attack noise or clicking sound associated with some plastic picks, delivering a great sound. Play until inspired, when done, throw them in the garden, watch them disappear, as they will naturally biodegrade! Wheatware Guitar Picks--Right for Any Hand When it comes to playing guitar, once in a while something new and special comes along. That's what WHEATWARE Biodegradables guitar picks offer, with a tone like tortoise shell (now endangered), these eco-picks produce a tone that sounds great. With easy to hold, non-slip, raised lettering, you will find one of these guitar picks perfect for your style of play. From Wedged-Light... Less

After decades of dedicated music study... 17 years of teaching music... over a dozen best selling music books and DVDs, expert musician and educator Mark John Sternal has created a bass guitar theory method that simplifies the foundations and structure for playing and writing bass guitar music. Easy Bass Guitar Theory DVD contains all you need to know about music theory on the bass. It is presented in a progressive, easy to follow format that will be cherished by complete beginners to dedicated professionals. A must for every bass guitarist! PLAYING LEVEL: All (even if you can only play 1 note) STRUCTURE: Notation Intervals Melody Harmony Triads BONUS FEATURES: Ear training and sight reading exercises for melody, harmony and triads. Key Changes Chord Extensions Circle of Fifths

You're in total control while your own private teacher patiently guides you from your first notes all the way through to complete compositions. Several months of valuable lessons are included with phrase-by-phrase demonstrations, split-screen closeups, band accompaniment to play along with, and a tablature booklet (which shows you graphically which strings to play on which frets). Learn major and minor scales, rhythmic variations, bass lines, runs, triads, octaves, arpeggios, and walking bass patterns.

Now these plectrums look cool! The bronze ones are very heavy and are nice for chugging away on bass with or knocking out power chords. The aluminium are very lightweight and strong. The steel are the shiny ones and are the lowest gauge and quite easy to bend.

IMPORTANT INSTALLATION INFORMATION: Nylgut is a completely different material than Nylon and needs a bit of extra care during installation because of its soft surface and different molecular structure. First check that the string channels in the nut are rounded and have no sharp edges, especially the lower edges facing the fingerboard. Because the string approaches from a slightly downward angle, if that edge is sharp the string can hang up on it, create a burr and break. It needs to be jus

Guitarists and bassists are forever striving to capture their instrument's sound on recordings. This hands-on guide describes the techniques that accomplish this best. The book provides practical advice for creating a home studio space, choosing and using amps and microphones, processing and enhancing sound with effects, and special approaches for recording acoustic and electric bass and guitar, as well as double bass. It also includes interviews with top technicians, producers and musicians in which they teach their tricks of the trade. A 63-track companion CD demonstrates every important technique and sound, including: variation created by different amplifiers, microphones, positioning within the studio, EQ applications, and more. Features a full glossary that explains all the tech... Less

Guitar World: How to Play Heavy Metal Bass! DVD. Containing more than 70 minutes of lessons, How to Play Heavy Metal Bass! gives you everything you need to know about playing bass in a hard rock band! You'll learn fret-hand techniques, tunings, riffs, fingerpicking and much more. Tab files on the disc a

Learning to play the bass guitar is easy with the help of Laurence Canty's step-by-step instructions and clear advice-even if you've never played an instrument before.You'll learn how to:--read musical notation-- correctly position your hands-- understand the fingerboard-- tune with harmonics-- master simple and complex rhythms--fit bass notes to the major, minor, and altered chords played by other instruments in a musical group and much more.How to Play Bass Guitar is like having your own private tutor. Filled with helpful exercises and advice, it contains everything you need to know to start playing with confidence and authority.

Bass Secrets brings together 48 columns highlighting specific topics - ranging from the technical to the philosophical - from masters such as Stu Hamm, Randy Coven, Tony Franklin and Billy Sheehan. They cover topics including tapping, walking bass lines, soloing, hand positions, harmonics and more. Clearly illustrated with musical examples.