25% ain't enough? How about 30% off everything then.

The folks at Lulu are have further embraced the true spirit of the holidays by doing more shopping promotions. This time it is 30% off anything,  for only the one day though, tomorrows infamous cyber monday.

Use the code "CyberMonday" before midnight tomorrow and get 30% of anything. That is cheeeeeep.

Also stay tuned for more postings on intervals and scale fragments coming soon.

UPDATE - today is the day, 30% off everything, and that is just ridiculous. The triad ebooks are only 6.99,  and no shipping, instant download. Cheeeeeeep! The print books are only 13.99, crazy cheap too.

25% Off All Of It

Happy multi-denominational winter holiday observance!

Yea. It has come to that time of the year where we give each other stuff for all kinds of different reasons.

In honor of this magical time of the year, starting today every book is available for 25% off. Even though some of you, and you know who you are, probably have been very, very naughty.

So, that means the new prices for all the books are:

The Book of Chord Tones - Major Chords - $14.99

The Book of Chord Tones - Minor Chords - $14.99

The Book of Chord Tones - Dominant Chords - $14.99

The Book of Triads - Major Scale - $7.50

The Book of Triads - Melodic Minor Scale - $7.50

So even if you are one of those naughty types, you deserve to treat yourself to some bass presents and save some cash for all the other things that made you so naughty in the first place this year. Then you can make all those empty promises about being better next year.

All you have to do is go to lulu.com and use the coupon Code: BUYMYBOOK305 when you check out. The max savings is $50.00 but that amount actually covers every Basso book there is. You can use it for ANY book on lulu.com as well.


So happy winter solstice or whatever tree celebration you pray to or sacrifice this December and thanks for checking out the blog.

Buy one get 50% off the second @ Lulu

Well, looks like the folks at lulu are trying to get ahead of black friday by offering some promos.

You can get 50% off the second book you order until tomorrow if you use the code below. I guess it supposed to be a big secret or something.

Oh yea, and Santa Claus is really your mom and dad.

Bass Links For Friday and Last Day of 20% Book Sale

Some places to hear new bass music this time.

1. Meshell has 4 tracks from her new record “Weather” available on via Facebook. You know they are gonna be funky.
2. Damine Erskine has released a live record of what he calls “weird jazz” of his quartet playing at Portland State (where he teaches). If by weird you mean totally awesome scary grooving bass playing, then yea, its weird.
3. Janek Gwizdala has a free download of 3 tunes (about 30 minutes) from his live gig last week in L.A. that has Bob Reynolds, Dennis Hamm, and Tom Brechtlein playing on it as well. You just have to re-tweet or like it on Facebook.
4. Evan Marien's track got featured in the final 50 on Bleep's contest for new music. WARNING - this page is retarded big and has 50 soundcloud embeds in it. But there is a lot of interesting free tunes there.
5. Ray Reindau's new project Star Monarchy has it's first track up on SoundCloud here.

And today is also the last day you can get 20% off of any and all the Chord Tone and Triad books, hard copy or e-book format. Just use the promo code “Buried” (get it, its a little halloween-y theme thing they did there) and you will save the money on any book you order from Lulu.com.

And if you don't have a Kindle or Ipad, you can still read e-books on any PC with free software so don't feel left out of the flat screen party.

Just download Calibre for Windows, Mac, or Linux and you are good to go.

20% Off All Books This Week And Ray Likes Melodic Minor

Yup, another coupon code celebrating the magical time of year that is Halloween, or Pedophile Christmas, as the Onion called it today. Ouch. It's a joke, people, relax.

Anyway, if you type in "BURIED" when you check out at Lulu.com, you can save 20% off your order, so that means you could get both the Major and Melodic Minor versions of the Book of Triads for like $16.00-ish. Which is a total deal, and as all the other coupon codes, it is good for anything on the site.

Oh yea, and check out what bassist Ray Riendeau says about the Melodic Minor version of The Book of Triads:

This book is an awesome resource for any musician looking to expand their knowledge and ears to triads of the Melodic Minor scale. It will have you melodically minoring all over your bass!!!!!

Ray Riendeau

James LaBrie, Halford, Star Monarchy

If you are a bass player and are not hip to Ray and his scary chops and funky grooves, you should be.

The first single, "MONARCHY" from Ray's new project Star Monarchy just went live on Itunes.

Ray is the leader of this new project and it features many top players/singers in the world of metal/rock.

On the first track he plays with:

• Daniel Tompkins - vocals
• Francesco Artusato - guitar
• Bassist Ray Riendeau - bass, guitar
• Danny Handler - drums

So some pretty familiar names that obviously are going to throw down. Check it out on Ray's Facebook band page, or any of his other web places.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Star-Monarchy/242527722445276
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/starmonarchy
www.twitter.com/zon5
http://www.youtube.com/user/phatgroovz

Here is Ray in action doing some demonstration of his monster slap chops and playing at a little gig down in South America where a couple of people showed up, something called "Rock in Rio" or something like that. Oh and by a couple, it turns out that means about 150,000.

8 Ways To Play Triads ... in C Melodic Minor This Time

The major version of the triad exercises were such a hit, here are the same 8 exercises except this time in C melodic minor, which has a couple of curve balls in it.

Just a reminder that melodic minor has only one flatted note, the third, Eb. The rest of the notes are the same as C Major. The notes in the scale are:

C D Eb F G A B C

This combination of notes makes for some unique chords like the augmented triad (the one with the plus sign) and more than one diminished chord. That means this scale has a lot of possibilities so work these out and transpose them to other keys or play them in different orders and make up some new combinations of your own. Clicking on each image below will open a larger version for you to download or print.

Book of Triads for Kindle Now Available

The Book of Triads has been released on Amazon over the weekend. This means if you have a Kindle you can cram it full of 80 different ways to play the triads in the C Major scale and carry it around with you, or put your Kindle on your music stand and practice anytime you want.

Check it out here if you are in the US- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005VTAU3C

Or here if you are in the UK: In the UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Triads-Exercises-Diatonic-ebook/dp/B005VTAU3C/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1318886516&sr=1-1

It gets delivered just like any other Kindle title right to your device by some form of magic and little scurrying elves or something.

Take a look and write a review if you are a new happy owner of these 80+ pages of triadic information.

Announcing A New E-Book: The Book of Triads, C Major

Here at Basso Ridiculoso Industries we have been hard at work creating a snazzy new bass thing.

So today, with our usual overly dramatic fanfare and pompous ceremony we are announcing a new e-book that has 80 different ways to play the triads that are found in the C Major scale.