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04-06-2006, 09:44 PM
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Has anyone seen or ordered this? Bass Guitar Secrets
Hmm....
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“I handle the notes no better than many others, but the pauses - ah! That is where the art resides.” - Arthur Rubinstein
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04-06-2006, 11:40 PM
| | | | that advertising template always screams "SCAM!" |
04-07-2006, 04:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | Looks fishy to me. I'm sure there's some good information there, but I'd bet the price of the program that you could get the same thing from a number of other sources (for instance, the Pacman's scale program-free, Mike Dimin's Core Method-worth every penny, Bunny Brunel's on line tutorials-looks good) with just a tad more work.
Basically it all boils down to knowing the fretboard and developing you ear. Time and effort will pay off. If there's a shortcut, you can bet something is left out.
Of course, if there was coupon in the back for some kind of physical 'inhancement' then the cost might be worth it.
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04-07-2006, 05:16 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by seequeue that advertising template always screams "SCAM!" |
Yup - although he got this bit right :
"completely destroys the need for copying off of other bass players, resorting to petty "tab-dependancy" ...." 
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04-07-2006, 07:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Winnipeg Canada | | | here's a secret that works.
practice. lots.
that'll be 50 bucks :P |
04-07-2006, 08:16 PM
| | | | Why dont you buy it and tell us if it's a scam. |
04-07-2006, 09:22 PM
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Get this while you're at it. You can kill people while you play awesome music! |
04-07-2006, 10:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New Zealand | | | It's not really a secret if you're willing to share it with everyone. I have a bass guitar secret that I'm not sharing with anyone. |
04-07-2006, 11:13 PM
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04-08-2006, 12:25 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cambridge, MA | | I think all of us at TB have it but no one can discuss it because, after all, it is a secret!  |
04-08-2006, 09:08 AM
| | | | I have the secret to great bass playing, but if I tell you, I'll have to kill you. Tough to get new students that way...
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04-12-2006, 08:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Lil Babylon (San Diego) | | | lol
garbage
go to Guitar Center and pick up a Christian McBride dvd for 20 bucks |
04-12-2006, 08:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | My secret is better than yours. (I think)
(I hope......)
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04-12-2006, 08:14 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by BassChuck My secret is better than yours. (I think)
(I hope......) | Ha! My secret is soooooo good, even *I* am not allowed to know it!  |
04-12-2006, 09:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Clinton, MA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by fr0me0 here's a secret that works.
practice. lots.
that'll be 50 bucks :P | I would not be surprised if it came in a book, at a high price and it only said that one magic word. |
04-12-2006, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by seanm Ha! My secret is soooooo good, even *I* am not allowed to know it! | I have an idea...an idea so smart my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about. |
04-13-2006, 08:14 AM
| | | | I think you guys are wrong on this one. I used this system and I immediately started swinging like Ray and Jamerson is easy as can be! |
04-13-2006, 08:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Just get a bass instructor. |
04-13-2006, 09:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bay Area, CA | | | I started bass with instructor, and this instructional book currently under comprehensively ignorant derision. Comparing general off-the-shelf bass instruction books against BGS seems like comparing Dr. Seuss to.......something competent at least.
BGS exercises have challenged me in every way. The BGS package of software plus two PDF manuals has been more than waht I needed from a general program. The only thing I don't like about BGS is the author likes to use acronyms (abbreviations) but not explain them in context. Example - he uses "NOS", but never explains it. Somehow, readership is supposed to know he means "nitrous oxide" (not kidding). He cited NOS to a car engine as an analogy to something.
I've raked the author over the coals for this, but still stand by the general value and insight of the BGS program. It answered more questions than I thought to ask. I'm not sure what's being slammed in this thread, BGS specifically or bass guitar instruction books in general. Either way, the critics are a joke on this one. Two cents.
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04-16-2006, 04:53 AM
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Originally Posted by MikeRS Practice!!!! I would not be surprised if it came in a book, at a high price and it only said that one magic word. | Aw man,you told him the secret!!!!
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