Oct 12 2008
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A: Why not? It’s a bass! The tuning of a standard six-string bass is a good thing. Musicians all around the world already know this tuning so it’s easy for them to learn touch-style on a tuning they already know.
There is also the popular bass-strings tuning we call ‘Inverted Fifths’ [...]
May 16 2008
A new player called our office the other way, and wanted us to help him over the phone to tune his instrument. Well, we’re generally reachable during the day, but as regarding tuning the instrument, of course we probably won’t be able to hear the strings very well over the telephone, and we always tune [...]
May 12 2008
Not long ago, I received a letter from somebody questioning whether, with their busy life, and the impressive nature of touchstyle play, whether they could learn to play this method.
I tried to reassure him, but frankly I think the fellow was agonizing lots more than need be.
Pretty much nobody ever picked up an instrument for [...]