Stuart Clayton

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

All gone!

Replied to both - and MB1 - I love that avatar!

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

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce that my company Bassline Publishing will be exhibiting at the London Bass Guitar Show in March. We were there last year in a smaller capacity, but will be taking a full stand this year, and will be releasing a couple of new books at the show. These will be the revamped edition of Ultimate Slap Bass, and The Level 42 Bass Book, which alongside The Mark King Bass Book replaces the series of Level 42 books we published for several years.

As the author of the books that we've published I'll be on the stand on both days to answer any questions, and we'll also have solo bassist Zander Zon with us on the Sunday to play some pieces and sign copies of Zander Zon - Sonorous Bass Transcriptions, which has become one of our more popular books.

Throughout both days we'll also be running a competition to win the 'Bassline Bundle' which is all ten of our books, shipped to a UK address. The winner will be announced on the Bassline website in the week following the show.

We'll be on stand D6, next to the Mansons Guitar Shop stand, and opposite Rob Green's fantastic Status Graphite stand. I really enjoyed spending two days meeting fellow bassists last year, and it was great to put faces to some of the names that I've chatted with on BassChat. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers
Stuart

I play this track with my function band. I use a Bass Balls and an octave pedal to get a synth-like tone. Works well, we've had lots of people commenting on it.

Stuart

Hi all,

Some of you might like to know that the Bassline Publishing Christmas Sale is now on, and will run until the 31st December. All of our most popular titles are in the sale, including:

The Jamiroquai Bass Book - was £19.99, now £17.99
The Mark King Bass Book - was £14.99, now £12.99
Funk and Disco Grooves - was £19.99, now £17.99
Solo Arrangements for Electric Bass - was £24.99, now £19.99

There are plenty of other deals to be had on the site. We're aiming to ship books on the same day that they are ordered in order to ensure delivery before Christmas.

Best wishes
Stuart Clayton

There's a transcription of the Diana Ross and the Supremes version on my website:

http://stuartclayton.com/media/transcriptions/

It was transcribed by one of my BIMM students, and I checked it and typed it up.

Stu

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce that my company Bassline Publishing has just released a new book: Zander Zon - Sonorous Bass Transcriptions. As the title would suggest, this is a transcription book containing all of the songs from solo piccolo bassist Zander Zon's first album, [i]Sonorous[/i]. Tracks are:
[list]
[*]Epic Love
[*]Circle of Melodies
[*]I, Resolute
[*]Accelerate
[*]She Dance
[*]Tribal Chant
[*]Hope
[*]Looking Glass
[*]Meditation in E
[*]Sencilla
[/list]

I worked closely with Zander on the transcriptions and performance notes (which are very detailed) to ensure complete accuracy. The book also contains advice on solo bass playing, set up tips for playing piccolo bass, and how to work with altered tunings.

You can read more about the book here: http://www.basslinepublishing.com/zander-zon-sonorous-bass-transcriptions.html

If you have never checked out Zander's playing, I highly recommend it! He composes and performs solo bass music on piccolo bass using a variety of altered tunings, and is one of most musical solo bassists out there. Here's a link to his YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Zander4724

The pieces are challenging to play, but lots of fun!

Cheers
Stuart

Hi guys,

I thought you might like to check out a new video that I just made of one of my solo pieces, an arrangement of 'Shape of My Heart' by Sting. It was one of the pieces that I included in my Solo Arrangements for Electric Bass book, and I thought it would be fun to shoot a video of it. Here's the link:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTVwm7_4sbU[/media]

It was also a chance to experiment with video editing, as I have been studying this with a view to recording some kind of instructional DVD at some point. The video was shot by a friend of mine on two DSLR cameras, then edited together by me in Final Cut Pro X. The audio was recorded into Logic as it was shot, and I added compression and a little reverb afterwards.

Anyway, I hope you like it!

Stu

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce that we have been able to secure copyright permissions to sell The Jamiroquai Bass Book worldwide. Any bassists who have been unable to buy this title previously, will now be able to do so.

The Jamiroquai Bass Book features standard notation and TAB for the best tracks from the band's first two albums, which feature Stuart Zender on bass. Tracks featured in the book are:

When You gonna Learn
Too Young to Die
Hooked Up
If I Like It I Do It
Music of the Mind
Emergency on Planet Earth
Whatever it is, I just Can't Stop
Blow Your Mind
Just Another Story
Stillness in Time
Light Years
Manifest Destiny
The Kids
Mr Moon
Scam
Space Cowboy

All tracks feature detailed performance notes.

You can check the book out at www.basslinepublishing.com.

Cheers
Stuart

Hi,

I wrote the book that the other poster is referring to and I thought I would clarify the intention of the book for you. The book does NOT teach scale patterns. It teaches an approach to learning scales in a highly musical way, all over the fingerboard, with no reliance on patterns whatsoever. Chord tones, arpeggios etc are all cited as being hugely important throughout the book.

What you are saying is true, but in my opinion is simply a different approach to learning the same thing.

Stuart



[quote name='bassman7755' post='1359548' date='Sep 2 2011, 09:40 AM']OK at the risk of being contraversial - if you need a book to show you scales then IMO your doing it wrong.

To play any scale in any key you just need to know 3 things:
1) where the notes are so you can locate the scale roots
2) the interval sequence relative to the root note
3) how those intervals translate to the fingerboard

Take C major for example ...

Locate (one of) the root note, lets take the one on the A string 3rd fret.
The intervals are 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th all natural (i.e. non-flattened) since its the plain major scale
on the fingerboard those intervals are: [note that "up" a string means up in pitch i.e. to a thinner string]
up 2 frets on the same string (2nd)
up 1 string and down one fret (3rd)
up 1 string same fret (4th)
up 1 string up 2 frets (5th)
up 2 strings down 1 fret (6th)
up 2 strings up 1 fret (7th)
and then up 2 strings up 2 frets takes you the next C root

The interval knowledge gained by doing it this way also opens up arpeggioes, inversions, chord fragments etc it gets your brain to relate intervals sounds to the physical movement and forces you to learn note positions on the fingerboard. The knowledge of intervals in the scale will help you understand chord structures in songs. This method also requires vastly less rote memorisation than learning shapes on the fingerboard and ensures that your brain and ear develop at the same speed as your fingers.[/quote]

[quote name='Fiorenza2' post='1351876' date='Aug 25 2011, 11:16 PM']Hi Stuart,

When the Jamiroquai book gets back in stock, I'll most definitely be getting it. I've just got one quick question, is the "Space Cowboy" transcription the "Stoned Again Mix", which Stu Zen played or the album version, which was done by a bloke called 'Mr. X'? Either version is great, and I personally prefer the Mr. X version a bit more.

Cheers,
Phil[/quote]

Hi Phil,

It should be arriving today (Friday) - well, I've waited 2 days for the courier anyway...

The book contains the Mr.X album version.

Best wishes
Stuart

Hi all,

I've had many emails from customers wanting to order certain books which are currently out of stock. They ARE being reprinted, but there has been an unforeseen delay at the printers. By the middle of next week we'll have the following titles back in stock:

The Jamiroquai Bass Book
The Bass Player's Guide to Scales and Modes
Ultimate Slap Bass
Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards Funk & Disco Grooves

Best wishes,
Stuart