Stuart Clayton

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1358707422' post='1943762'] HOORAYYY!!!! [b]Thank you SOOO much!![/b] You've just sold this book to me by this one fact. I've been using a few books and keep finding the same problem... I can't ignore the tabs. Most recently I've been using Stuart Clayton's Crash Bass course. Yesterday I was playing: 0 0, change string, 3 2, change string, 0 0..... I then got to feel like floging the F***g bass. What's the point of playing by numbers. I don't even know what notes I'm playing! OK the staves are there, but my eyes go straight to the tabs and I've stopped learning the fretboard! IMHO if you don't know the notes you're playing then you can't rally play the instrument, and you're no musician. [/quote] I'd like to point out here that I completely agree with Joe on the subject of TAB. It is unnecessary, and exists only to sell books. I don't use it in my own theory books (those published through Bassline Publishing), but I was TOLD to use it for the book that you mention. When I wrote that book I was under contract with Sanctuary Publishing, and despite my protestations, they insisted on TAB being included. Stuart

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1353054577' post='1870918'] Wembley was 1987 Although during the 1986 leg of the tour in the USA, the ITC medley was Cage/Quiet Earth/Apocalypse in 9/8, which was pretty cool. [/quote] Ah yeah, 87, you're right. Great Cage medley, just a shame they left it off of the DVD!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1353010759' post='1870567'] I've got sunshine in my stomach....... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4[/media] [/quote] I've got sunshine in my stomach... is from 'In the Cage'. Which incidentally, is my favourite song of all time. Thought Phil did a killer job with it on the Wembley 86 concert as well.

Nice one Phil, really enjoy your videos. Great soloing chops. Stu

Thanks everyone, glad you all enjoyed it. It's a fun tune to play and I spent ages working on the solo part, which is a transcription of what Alain played on the record. Almost finished writing up a transcription, which I've done purely for my own amusement, but if anyone wants a copy, let me know. Stu

Hey Jam, Looks like you've had plenty of help from some of the other theory bods on the forum, but feel free to drop me a PM here, or email me at [email protected] if you want to ask more questions. It sounds to me as though you've probably gone a couple of chapters too far into the book and maybe need to refresh on a couple of the earlier ones. One of the main ideas in the book is to try to avoid patterns when learning scales. This is how I was taught, and I honestly believe it's the best way to do things if you want to be able to freely play all over the instrument in any key. A lot of work is involved, and it can take a while for some of the theory to go in, but it's worth it in the end believe me! Like I say, feel free to email me if you need help. Cheers Stu [quote name='Jam' timestamp='1345581041' post='1779170'] Working through Stuart Clayton's Scales and Modes book, but I'm really struggling with it today. I sat down after having a bit of a play around with major/minor scales over jam tracks on youtube, and thought I'd do some more practice, try and unravel some more theory. I've been through all [i]7 chapters[/i] on major/minor scales (though I was tempted to skip some of the exercises...) and stumbled through the section on the circle of fifths but the deeper I get into the book the less I understand. I just spent 10 minutes trying to understand a couple of sentences, and I feel like I'm reading a different language. I'm sure I'll get it eventually but I feel so stupid at the moment! :/ For example, in the C Major scale, the chord progression is: C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim, C I ii iii IV V vi vii I So, in any keymajor scale, will ii, iii, and vi always be minor? Will I, IV and V be major? Is vii always diminished? For example, A major scale: A, Bm, Cm, D, E, Fm, Gdim, A Is that correct? How on earth am I going to remember that when I'm playing?! [/quote]

[quote name='marvellous' timestamp='1345332997' post='1776463'] A beautiful transcription for a 5 strings ! Great great job stu ! [/quote] Thanks! Glad you liked it. Stu

Hi guys, Here's a new video that I recorded a couple of days ago. It's Alain Caron's slap classic 'D-Code' which I've been working on for a few months. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcc2zD62Ag&feature=g-upl[/media] Hope you like it! Stuart

Nice one. I'm thoroughly enjoying her album 'Voice' at the moment, some great playing by Anthony Jackson on there. Tony Grey is missed though! Stu

Hey Gub, Yeah, been here for years, although I don't always get the time to read and post too much. If you end up getting a copy of book please let me know what you think! Stuart

[quote name='JakeBrownBass' timestamp='1341318403' post='1716855'] Stuart, are there any plans to release the book without tab? (digital only). Tab distracts me when working through exercises. Obviously I know the benefit of including it for non readers. Would be nice to just not have to deal with it at al for readersl [/quote] Hey Jake, No plans to do that at present, although there's no reason why it couldn't be done in the future! I would actually prefer to release all of my books without TAB, but am also aware that it's needed in order to reach as wide an audience as possible. Cheers, Stuart

Hey Highfox, Great, thanks for buying it! I'm really pleased to hear you are enjoying it so far. If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch. Stuart

Hey Gub, I've actually not seen that myself! I wrote that for Sanctuary Publishing/Music Sales and I guess they uploaded it. For info, the book this thread relates to is very different to a standard e-book. It looks a helluva lot nicer, is full colour, has audio included, and an intro video. All the sorts of things you wish regular e-books had! Cheers Stuart

Hey guys, Just seen this topic. Josh, thanks for your kind words, really pleased to hear that you are enjoying the iBook. Just to clarify though, these enhanced iBooks (built with iBooks Author) are not available on the iPhone or iPod Touch, just the iPad. If anyone else has bought it, I'd love to know what you think! Just to reinforce what Oliver said, if you're learning to read music, you'll need to use a book that does not use TAB. My iBook does have TAB for the exercises as it's not a reading book. Including TAB helps to reach the biggest audience possible with what is essentially a very niche product! As Josh mentioned however, I am working on a sight reading book at the moment, and am hoping to have it ready for October this year. It'll be released on the iPad at the same time as it's out in print, so maybe some of you will find it useful. Cheers Stuart

Hi Drew, I wrote all of the copy for the new syllabus of Rockschool books, so am pretty familiar with all of the pieces. The tapping part in 'Nosso Samba' is indeed a little quiet in the mix, but it is there. Glad to hear you are enjoying the new books, I think they contain some really great pieces! Best, Stuart

Thanks for all the nice words about the book guys, I'm really pleased it's helped a few of you out. I wrote this book really as an aid to teaching (I use these methods for teaching scales in my classes at BIMM), but have been really surprised at how popular its been. I'm a firm believer in learning scales and theory and my goal was to get it all across in a sensible and musical way. All the best, Stuart

I really enjoyed the show this year, which was the first one on which I had my own stand, for Bassline Publishing. We met a lot of previous customers and plenty of new ones too it seems! Also great to catch up with the regulars - Alan Vaughan, Dave Marks, Mike Flynn, Joe Hubbard, Phil Mann and the guys from Mansons and Status. Good to meet Ped and Simon Fitzpatrick too - only problem really was the noise, which as several people have mentioned was excessive. Many of us who were exhibiting complained to the organisers since it really did make talking to customers difficult. Fingers crossed it gets sorted properly for next time. I've posted a few pics on the Bassline Facebook page, which you can see here: https://www.facebook.com/BasslinePublishing Noisy as it was, I loved it, and fully intend to be there next year. Also came away with an awesome Bogart 5-string, which is hands-down the best 5-string I've played in a long while. Cheers all, Stuart

Hi all, This weekend we will be exhibiting at the London Bass Guitar Show, at Olympia. We will be offering our customers the opportunity to win 'The Bassline Bundle', a collection of all ten of our books. To enter, simply come and see us at the show on stand D6, and fill in the competition form. The winner will be notified by email the week after the show, and the news will be posted on the website. The Bassline Bundle contains: Ultimate Slap Bass, The Level 42 Bass Book, The Mark King Bass Book, The Stuart Hamm Bass Book, The John Entwistle Bass Book, The Jamiroquai Bass Book, Zander Zon Sonorous Bass Transcriptions, Solo Arrangements for Electric Bass, Funk and Disco Grooves and The Bass Player's Guide to Scales and Modes. GOOD LUCK! Stu

Unfortunately, it was very costly and impractical to continue publishing the five volume Level 42 series. Instead, all of the instrumentals and bass solos have been published in The Mark King Bass Book, and all of the most popular songs are now in The Level 42 Bass Book, which contains most of what was in volume 1, and a few other popular tracks - such as 'The Machine Stops' - from the other books. With regard to the Amazon links: Amazon will list anything with a barcode/ISBN number and claim they can supply it. Unfortunately, their deal for authors is appalling, and selling books to them means selling them at a considerable loss. Consequently, none of my books will be available from Amazon, only from Bassline Publishing. Cheers Stuart

Guys, As the author of these books I would be really grateful if you could refrain from scanning them and emailing them. I have not only invested an enormous amount of time in the creation and publication of these books, but I also pay the writers considerable sums of money for copyright permissions to reproduce these works. I appreciate that the track in question - 'Heaven in my Hands' is no longer in print, but 'The Machine Stops' is available in the new book The Level 42 Bass Book which is available now. We'll be launching this book at the London Bass Show, and I hope to see some of you there. I'm sure you can understand my feelings on this. Cheers Stuart

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Hi all, We have a few books that were incorrectly bound by the printers that we are giving away to good homes. The fault with all of these is extremely tight binding. They can be read, but need to be bent about a bit to be opened properly - or you might wish to guillotine off the spines and ring bind them. Anyway, we have two copies of The John Entwistle Bass Book and one copy of Stuart Hamm Bass Transcriptions: Outbound & Beyond up for grabs. Free to a good home, just asking that you pay for posting them. Seemed silly to bin them! If you're interested drop me an email at [email protected] Cheers Stuart