The Return of MegaTapper Newsletter

Mount Shasta, CA, September 25, 2007: In years past, Mobius Megatar published the **MegaTapper News** over several years, and it was very popular, containing articles, lessons, interviews, and news bits of interest to two-handed tappers around the world.

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!

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

He's baack ... on YouTube!

YouTube, September 19, 2007: Over the last two weeks, in my spare moments (hah!) I recorded our 'TrueTapper Eclipse' instrument. This is our most basic instrument, and while it is perfectly suitable for a professional musician to do studio recording, any student with a summer job can afford this instrument.

The video is a demonstration of the features of the Eclipse, and the Bloggard in his guise of Traktor Topaz, strange musician from another planet, plays a couple of songs and explains how the instrument is constructed to make learning fast, and playing easy.

The video is a companion to the previous video which explains the Easy Touch-Style Method of learning to play music using the two-handed tapping technique. The Easy Touch-Style video is the first of several, and in one of the online forums, my very good friend Greg Howard suggested that I make a video playing some music.

So I thought -- Why not?

So, assuming that YouTube is online and streaming just now, the Bloggard presents:



Now, at last, the neighbors can know the source of those strange flickering lights ... late at night ... and the ... peculiar ... sounds. Oh, yes. Yes, now they'll know.

New Truck

Yreka, California, September 1, 2007: The Bloggard has a new truck. It's almost time to move, and I've got to move stuff, so I'll move the stuff in the new truck. Well, new to me, the truck --



And I'll start by hauling a couple of megatars --



But, say ... I could haul *lots* more megatars in this truck!