Personal Information
- First Name
- Traktor
- Last Name
- Topaz
- Homepage URL
- http://www.megatar.com
- MySpace Address
- http://profile.myspace.com/mobiusmegatar
- Bio
I manufacture specialty basses for two-handed touchstyle play for a company called Mobius Megatar. These are designed to make two-handed tapping both easier and more powerful. On our website (http://www.megatar.com) you can see photos, hear songs, see performance videos, and learn about our new learning method. This makes playing bass and simultaneous rhythm guitar actually easier than learning normal guitar or piano. There is a free newsletter with lessons, interviews and music articles, and with your newsletter you get a complimentary download of the method book "Easy Touch-Style Bassics" which shows how easy it can be ... with the right approach. (The method revealed here can also be applied to Chapman Stick tuning or to normal basses if they have lots of strings.)
I came from keyboards, and became fascinated with this method of playing music, first learning the Stick and then discovering that tuning bass strings in fourths makes for much more powerful playing. I used to play dinner music in restaurants, and must confess that my own music is sort of elevator-music with jazz harmonies.
I live in Northern California, on the slopes of a very large mountain up near the Oregon border.
- Gear
Mobius Megatar ToneWeaver, playing into J-Station preamps, into a Barbetta PA amp.
- Influences
Blues, Bossa, Beatles, and standards of the '40s.
- Current Gig(s)
No more. Now nearly all my time is spent building and shipping Mobius Megatar basses to players all around the world.
- Day Job
U.S. Manager and Manufacturer of touch-style basses.
- Location
- Weed, California
User points
- Points
- 2
History
- Member for
- 3 years 43 weeks