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| BASS MAGIC | MUSIC THEORY |  | The theory found in Bass Magic is worth the price of the program alone. You get a college education in music theory. When most people think of music theory, they think of numbers and boring concepts. This is not how Bass Magic works. Some programs and books give you a bunch of notes and numbers and tell you to "just memorize them". Bass Magic will not do this either. Bass Magic offers a fresh and interactive way to learn theory and incorporate it into your playing right away. You will be given musical examples of concepts. Taught when and how to use them in real musical situations. Given exercises to help learn the concepts. | |  | Too often theory is taught in the old fashioned classical tradition with no real emphasis on how or when to use it. Bass Magic will teach you how theory applies to modern day bass playing and music. A common example is the diatonic modes. Many instructional products will quite often just give a list of the modes and expect you to memorize them. Others may go a little farther and say "The Dorian mode is used over Minor chords". This is still not enough. | 
| | With Bass Magic you'll see and here real musical examples. You'll be shown where things come from and what they work with. You'll really be able to use what you learn musically right away. Then you'll be given exercise in all keys to really gain command. Thanks to the Virtual Fretboard, you'll be practicing along to a drum beat and a guitar chord accompaniment so you really hear what the bass sounds like in a musical situation. You'll also be able to play along with the examples and mute the bass track to give you an opportunity to create your own lines right away. | You will look at things in different ways. Chord theory is taught so if you are playing with a guitarist or keyboardist, you'll be able to create any bass line, in any style of music, in any key. A problem that many music theory products have is that they don't cover enough material. Either they show the beginnings of theory and stop somewhere around the modes, or they teach advanced concepts ignoring the basics assuming you already know them. Bass Magic covers everything! The lessons start off with the very basics like Major Scales and what you can use them for, and carry you through to more advanced topics like modes of the Jazz Melodic Minor scale, tritone chord substitutions, and more. One misconception that's very common is that learning music theory will make your playing stiff or stale. This is a myth fabricated by people who do not know theory or, more commonly, don't know how to use it to actually create. The real point of music theory is to get the music you hear in your head and in your heart onto your instrument. Use music theory to open new doors for you, not close them. Bass Magic will help get you there by creating a truly musical atmosphere to learn in. With the combination of the Virtual Fretboard, videos, audio, text, tables, and graphics, you have the ultimate learning experience right at your computer. | |  | | |
