musician: Sid Vicious.
laying, winking.
bed, leather pants, postcard.
music: Sex Pistols.

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BACKSTORY: I never got to finish uploading my postcard collection. Most were bought in the 1990s at Smash Records and various bookstores in Blacksburg while going to Virginia Tech. They were scanned in around 2000ish, but we never got around to finishing them up til now. Check my postcard tag for older postcard scans that I uploaded several years ago.

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How To Play Bass Pedals (One Octave)

If you play the organ then you are probably familiar with bass pedals. They are also available as separate units and are known as MIDI bass pedals and you can use them with any keyboard that has MIDI ports. Just connect a MIDI cable from the MIDI out on the keyboard to the MIDI in on the pedal board and you can play any of your keyboard sounds from the pedal board.

Playing the pedals can be a bit daunting at first. I remember when I first attempted to play the pedals when I started to play the organ. I had learned to play the piano for fifteen years before I started on organ so music ability wasn’t the problem, but I could not get the hang of these pedals. Part of the problem is playing style; with a piano, you have a moving right hand and left hand, so to suddenly expect your left foot to start playing a pedal keyboard is asking a lot.

Ideally, you want your bass foot to be an extension of your left hand. So when you play a chord with your left hand, you play the root of that chord on the bass pedal. For example, play a C chord with your left hand and play a C bass pedal with your left foot. Of course, this is the simplest method of playing the bass pedals but a necessary start. You will want to graduate towards playing alternating bass and walking bass.

So here are five simple exercises to help you play the bass pedals.

1. Play a C scale with your left foot. Starting with the bottom C pedal, play to the top C and down again. Make sure to start slowly. These exercises are teaching you distances between pedals. It’s more important to be slow and accurate to start with. Speed will come later.

2. Play this sequence of notes on the pedal board. Bottom C, G, top C, G, bottom C repeat a minimum of ten times.

3. Play this sequence of notes C, E, D, F, E, G, F, A, G, B, A, B, C repeat as above.

4. Play a chromatic scale starting with C, up and down the pedal board. (If you know it, play a section of flight of the bumblebee with your left foot)

5. Finally play a chromatic scale with chords and bass pedals, up and down.

With all the above exercises, you can look at the pedals your are playing when you first attempt the exercises. After a few weeks practice, you should be able to play the pedal board without looking at all.

As I said above, I had problems with bass pedals when I changed from piano to organ. After using the above exercises, I was able to play bass pedals very naturally and without thinking about what pedal comes next. It’s a bit like learning to drive. Once you’re used to your cars pedals and gear stick you don’t think about it, you just drive.

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Pipermus


Pipermus, born in Latin America somewhere in the end 70ies, was touched by her mothers pianotunes at a young age. Pipermus learned to play the violin, did classical ballet and now tries to play the bass, and experiments with several other instruments. Vocally, Pipermus has different ranges that she uses, some are in experimental stages. In the summerholiday of 2007 Pipermus recorded her first songs, which are inspired by wolfsounds, and horrormovies. And bands such as Trelldom, Deadstop, Dr. Surf, Infest and Warzone are very inspirational to Pipermus. Pipermus made different themesongs, like ‘pipermus goes friends’, ‘denstrexx’, ’ the wolfdemos’. Next to themesongs, she also made some weird concept songs. The hit ‘Drunk With Nails’ amazed friends, family and the neighbours. Except for singing in English, Pipermus also sings in Dutch and Frisian. Talking about a label, Pipermus and War Inside Records are still negotiating…

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Question by KittyGoMeow: Best Way to Learn how to play the bass?
So I just started playing bass. I really like play but I don’t know how I should learn to play songs and such. Should I learn by ear? Do books even help? Or should I just get a teacher to help me? I want a way so I can learn it right and can understand it

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Answer by sara
if i like a song and want to play it i google “the song name” bass tabs and they are really easy to read and you can teach yourslef, thats how i learned

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Best answer:

Answer by MEL B
Yes! I don’t think you will ever be sorry you learned-only sorry you didn’t!! Go for it!

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Bass Scales- Learning Them, Playing Them, and the Benefits

Of course, scales are a helpful learning tool for playing any instrument. Even the most accomplished musicians started out by learning the art of playing scales so they could learn notation, reading and playing sheet music and moving up and down the musical staff smoothly and easy.  Bass scales are one of the critical components an aspiring bassist must grasp if they are to learn the finer nuances of the bass and perfect their musical skills.

Before rushing out and finding instructors and taking lessons, it’s paramount that you realize the importance of scales. Since scales will be the starting point of any reputable teacher, it’s actually very helpful to get a good understanding on the topic prior to starting your lessons. Scales are the basic arrangement of notes featured in an octave starting from the lowest to the highest notes.  Each octave, which is then named after the first note in its scale, features eight notes, so the C scale begins at the bottom of the octave with C and the goes up the scale for seven more notes.  If you were to play the C scale on a piano, it would look like this – C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and C.  There are a lot of scales, and during the course of your bass guitar lessons, you will most likely learn them all.

A huge part of playing an instrument is learning new pieces by reading sheet music. Scales assist with this aspect of music by teaching you to read and play notes simultaneously. Plus, as stated previously, playing bass scales will help you master going up and own the staff seamlessly.  With progress, you will play the scales faster, easier and more fluidly and that means you will be able to play some really difficult, and cool riffs later on when you’re playing actual music. Scales are really useful in helping to reinforce and perfect this technique.

So what’s the best option for learning to play scales for bass guitar?  Well, to start at the very beginning, before scales even, you’ll need to learn basic fingering to play the notes correctly on your bass, and that, usually means a private teacher.  However, if your schedule or budget rules a private instructor, there are instructional DVDs and videos available online that can guide you in learning basic fingering.

After you’ve conquered the fingering for each note, you can start with scales beginning with the basics and then progressing to the more advanced.  You will begin with the major scale first. Guitar scales will be different from piano, so you’ll also need to learn to read sheet music for bass guitar.  Once that’s out of the way though, you’ll learn the major scale followed by the other key bass scales, like the minor scale, and the major and minor pentatonic scales.

With a lot of practice, you will find that as time goes by your scale playing skills will improve dramatically.  You will notice that each scale, while involving different fingerings, all follow similar rhythms and patterns. Some will be harder to master than others, however with consistent practice and quality instruction you’ll be able to play them all quickly and fluidly with time.

Bass Tabs for Bass Line from Tom Sawyer as learned by listening to the extracted bass line of Geddy Lee’s original track from Moving Pictures. Thanks to Mastertracks18 for putting the bass line on Youtube so that I could learn it and play it with the virtual band, VirtuallyRush. I hope this helps someone who is trying to learn it.
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Question by Tyler89: How can i learn to play Bass Guitar, while not having money to take lessons?
Metal/Rock

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Answer by Jasmin
Go to youtube.com and type in Beginner Bass Lessons or you can check out www.youtube.com/iwritemusic12 she has a bunch of lessons

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