The long awaited Funk University is here…Bootsy’s Funk University! Together in an online campus, bassists from around the world will be learning directly from “Professor” Bootsy Collins. The name says it all, this course will be concentrating on intermediate and advanced Funk styles.
To get in on it, visit http://www.thefunkuniversity.com and sign up for their email updates. Once you’re on this list you will start receiving exclusive information and be notified when and how to enroll for the first semester which begins July 1st.
Completely off the bass topic, but have you heard of Earth Hour? Earth Hour started three years ago in Sydney, Australia and is now the largest event of its kind in the world. Nearly one billion people from 4,100 cities in 87 countries on seven continents participated last year and, with your help, Earth Hour 2010 can be even bigger.
During Earth Hour, international landmarks including the Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State Building, Eiffel Tower and Great Pyramids have gone dark alongside the city skylines of Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv and more. To see it for yourself, check out the video posted below.
Earth Hour isn’t just for national landmarks and big cities—anyone can participate, whether it be individuals like you and me or schools, businesses, organizations, and our state and local governments. I hope you will join me for this amazing event and help send a message that the time for action on climate change is now. To sign up and start spreading the word, visit www.EarthHour.org.
The first song that I learned on the bass guitar was Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes. This is also the first song I mastered on the bass guitar. It is pretty easy, and the rhythm is slow enough to pick up quickly. After reviewing other site’s tablature and picking it out the first few times, I realized that it was a bit difficult to read these tabs since I was coming from a sheet music background. I decided to tab it out here very clearly for anyone who is just picking up this song for the first time or is a beginning bassist. I have also included the video with lyrics at the bottom of the Seven Nation Army bass tabs page.
The fact about this song is that there is no actual bass guitar being played. The sound is actually created by running Jack White’s semi-acoustic guitar through a Digitech Whammy pedal set down an octave. The riff was composed at a sound check prior to a show at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia.
The long awaited Funk University is here…Bootsy’s Funk University! Together in an online campus, bassists from around the world will be learning directly from “Professor” Bootsy Collins. The name says it all, this course will be concentrating on intermediate and advanced Funk styles.
