Learn to play Chapman Stick, Warr Guitar, and Mobius Megatar

Two-handed touch-style method is a new way to play guitar or bass, though it becomes more powerful and is easier to do on a specialty instrument designed for this technique.

It is similar to ‘two-handed tapping’ on guitar, except that two-handed tapping as commonly done on guitar is a somewhat limited technique, using both hands to play notes on the same string, or upon a small set of strings.

The full two-handed touch-style technique, however, allows you to play with both hands, independently, much like a piano player.  Done correctly, the effect is like playing bass and guitar at the same time!

With our revolutionary new learning method — the Easy Touch-Style Method — you will discover that playing this advanced method is actually simpler and faster to learn than to learn standard guitar, and faster and easier to learn than to learn standard piano.

How can it be more powerful than guitar, and yet simpler to learn?

We’ll show you …

But let’s back up for just a moment.

MOBIUS MEGATAR

Our company manufactures an instrument called the ‘Mobius Megatar’. It’s like electric bass and guitar on one instrument. Six bass strings and six higher-pitched melody strings are mounted on the neck.

A NEW WAY TO PLAY!
By touching or tapping upon these strings with the fingers of both hands, you can play music. This method makes piano-like technique possible . You can play simultaneous left hand chords and right-hand melody, or play a bassline with simultaneous rhythm chords. And quite a bit more.

If you already play guitar or bass (or even piano), then much of what you already know will transfer to this new way of playing music, in only a few days.

We have developed a new method of play. It has its roots in two-handed tapping as developed by Jimmie Webster, Dave Bunker, Emmett Chapman, Chuck Soupios, Sergio Santucci, and Stanley Jackson.

However, you will find this revolutionary new approach to be simpler and more powerful than other methods from the past.

This first book, Easy Touch-Style Bassics, is the first of a short series. In this book, the ‘Bassics’, you’ll learn a simple set of building blocks. They almost seem too simple, but they’ll lead you to fast results, and to playing even complex music surprisingly quickly.

MAKING LEARNING EASY
The first key to rapid progress in this new method book is that each hand can operate in exactly the same manner to produce exactly the same notes.

On most other instruments your hands are forced to operate differently. For example, when you play a piano, to go up the scale, your left hand moves toward its thumb, and your right hand moves toward its little finger. So you must operate your two hands differently to produce the same notes! And with normal guitar or bass, you must use one hand to fret the string, and the other hand to pluck the string! Again notice that you use your two hands completely differently to play a sequence of notes, and to play the same notes higher on the neck, still the hands must be operated differently.

Think back, and remember when you were a child, the first time some grown-up asked you to pat your head while rubbing your tummy. It’s inherently difficult for a human to do; we are just not built that way. So here, for the first time, is a method book that works the way a human works. Learning the “Easy Touch-Style Bassics” way is more like patting your head and patting your tummy too. Both hands operate just the same way. Much easier.

The breakthrough given in this new method book is that, with the simple approach spelled out in this book, you can use each hand in exactly the same manner to produce exactly the same notes. Once you’ve learned to play a scale (or a chord) with each hand, you can then practice with both hands simultaneously. And this “doubling up” during your learning time almost halves the time required to learn to actually play some music. Or, put another way, you learn twice as fast. Half as much time to learn to play twice as fast? That’s a good thing.

DOES IT WORK ON GUITAR OR BASS?
With diligence on the part of the student, this method can be adapted to pretty much any stringed and fretted instrument. However, consider this:

The human’s time is much more valuable (and scarce) than the cost of an instrument. If you have a choice between spending more learning hours, or buying an instrument that makes the technique so easy that your progress simply soars, which is the wiser path?

So yes, you can use this method on guitar or bass.

But realize that playing strings with both hands at the same time, it helps if the instrument has lots of strings, so that each hand has its own set of strings. That way, the two hands will never need to contend with each other because both want a note that’s on the same string!

An 8-string bass is  the smallest instrument on which you can most easily use this method. The less strings you have on the instrument, the more the human must work out solutions and find creative work-arounds. While it may be fun to overcome a challenge, the fastest progress will be made on an instrument with two sets of strings, and for the very fastest learning, each set being six strings produces best results.

LEARN CHAPMAN STICK! LEARN MOBIUS MEGATAR!
This method has been developed specifically for specialty touch-style instruments such as the Mobius Megatar, the Warr Guitar, the Chapman Stick, the Bunker Touch-Guitar, the Box Guitar, or the Solene. (All trademarks listed here are the property of their respective owners.) So if you want to learn Chapman Stick or Mobius Megatar, this is the easiest and most powerful way to learn fast!

This method will work best on instruments with two groups of strings such as one group of strings for bass and another group for melody.

However, given a ‘two-stringset’ instrument, or an 8-string bass, this method will work within a number of tunings commonly used, such as the Mobius Megatar “BassBottom” tuning, or the “Inverted-Fifths” bass-strings tuning favored by Chapman Stick players, or in the “Straight Fourths” tuning of the Warr Guitar 8-string bass.

Can the method be used on normal guitar or bass? Yes, but it’s way easier and faster to learn with a specialty instrument designed for the technique.

HEAR EXAMPLE SONGS — To hear songs played with the “touch-style” technique given in the Easy Touch-Style Bassics method book, click on the recordings listed below. In differing styles, these songs were played on the Mobius Megatar instruments which we manufacture, using the two-handed touch-style method. When you hear a “bass” and “guitar”, or a “guitar duet” it’s just one musician playing both parts simultaneously! And the surprising thing is … it’s actually easier to learn than piano or guitar! Der StadtSoldat (Urban Soldier), by FATHER (rock) Sailing Away, by Traktor Topaz (lullaby) Summertime, by Wolfgang Daiss (jazz traditional) Circumnavigation, by Traktor Topaz (new age) State Trooper, by FATHER (rock) Mobius Megatar Photo (MaxTapper model)

EASY-TO-LEARN “BASS-BOTTOM” TUNING
You will also discover that the tuning known as the BassBottom tuning is the simplest to learn, and probably is the most powerful for an accomplished musician to use.

Bass Strings — strings are tuned exactly the same as a normal 6-string bass. Melody strings — the melody strings at fret three are the same as a normal guitar, except that it is simpler to tune in straight fourths. (The usual guitar B-string is detuned a half step to make playing Flamenco music with open strings easy for Spaniards, and we don’t really need that particular trick these days.)

With this tuning you can place your left hand on bass strings, and your right hand on melody strings, and you can train your hands simultaneously on scales or chord forms, to make your learning very fast.

WITH THIS METHOD, YOU CAN PLAY

• Basslines with rhythmic chords at the same time
• Melodies with left-hand chords, much like a piano player
• Melodies with basslines
• Comping chords while playing walking bass
• Improvising melody in bass, or melody, or both hands at the same time
• and lots, lots more!

The Easy Touch-Style Bassics method book is the first of four method books that will teach you these techniques, in record time. With this first book, you will learn how to play chords in bass and melody, how to play a very simple bass line, how to play very simple rhythm chords, and how to co-ordinate your two hands so you can play bass and rhythm at the same time.

This first book is useful and fun, and quick to learn, but at the same time, you’ll have learned the basics that will enable advanced basslines, reading melodies, and more, as presented in the following method books.

AVAILABLE IN THREE FORMATS

• Immediate Download — $7 — Get your Easy Touch-Style Bassics immediately with digital download. Download package includes Easy Touch-Style Bassics method book, a copy of the Mobius Megatar Owner’s Guide (with setup and tunings reference material), a History of Touch-Style, and $20 Discount Certificate good toward purchase of any Mobius Megatar instrument. Book and documents are in Adobe Acrobat format.
• Book-on-CD — $9.95 plus shipping — We will ship compact disk to your address within 1-3 business days. Compact disk includes Easy Touch-Style Bassics method book, a copy of the Mobius Megatar Owner’s Guide (with setup and tunings reference material), a History of Touch-Style, and $20 Discount Certificate good toward purchase of any Mobius Megatar instrument … PLUS Instrument Photographs, MP3 recordings, sample Performance Video and tutorial Video about the Touch-Style method, plus more!
• Printed Book — $30 plus shipping — Easy Touch-Style Bassics is professionally printed on white paper, with protective covers front and back, using ‘comb binding’ so that the book will lie flat on your study desk or music stand. With the printed book we will include Book-on-CD with all the bonus material. Ships within 3 business days.

With any of the formats you will have a digital file copy available. Carry it on your laptop when travelling. Use it to print out selected exercises or songs. The digital file copies use the Adobe “Acrobat” format. (Free Acrobat reader is available from Adobe.)

GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION
As with musical instruments and other items sold by Mobius Megatar, this method book, in any format, is sold under the Mobius Megatar GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION: “If less than completely delighted with the Easy Touch-Style Bassics method book, simply return method book (in same condition) within seven days for immediate refund of your purchase price, exclusive of shipping costs.”

INCLUDED WITH EASY TOUCH-STYLE BASSICS METHOD BOOK
Your Easy Touch-Style Bassics method book includes several bonuses …

• (1) the method book includes a concise songbook which includes six songs built on the same chord sequence as well-known standards, as a study aid
• (2) several of the sample songs are recorded as MP3 files (links provided)
• (3) a History of Touch-Style is included, with pictures of specialty instruments and notable players
• (4) a complete Mobius Megatar Owner’s Guide, with additional information about setting up a guitar or bass for good intonation, is included
• (5) One-year discount coupon good for a $20 discount on any new Mobius Megatar specialty touch-style instrument
• (6) Seven-day Universal Guarantee of Satisfaction

SHIPPING
Digital Download purchases are available for immediate download to your computer. Purchase of printed book or book-on-a-CD will be shipped within 3 business days, via the US Postal Service.

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