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Spring Term Starts April 5th Unlock the secrets behind great rock, jazz, blues and slap bass lines, and become the in-demand versatile bassist you want to be with Berkleemusic.com, the online school of Berklee College of Music. Find out what it’s like to study bass online with Berklee’s faculty by taking a free sample lesson [...]
Meet Carl Dawkins Hello all, and welcome to the next installment on how to further yourself as a musician in the industry. This article is currently being written from a tour bus in India, where I am touring with a metal band from the UK called ‘Cypher16′. Thankfully enough, the way I got this tour [...]
DAMIAN ERSKINE PROJECT CD RELEASE AT JIMMY MAK’S Opening: Ben Darwish Group FRIDAY APRIL 9TH 2010 JIMMY MAK’S (221 NW 10th Ave. – Portland, OR) $12 cover | 8pm-midnight | all ages until 9:30, then 21+ Calling all music lovers! Bassist/Composer Damian Erskine has released what promises to be one of the most exciting recordings [...]
Meet Reviewer Damian Erskine Yves Carbonne “A LIfe” www.yvescarbonne.com French contrabassist extraordinaire Yves Carbonne is astounding at what he does. Often seen with his Jerzy Drozd 12 string fretless, one may think, “there’s just no way!” but he has one of the most beautiful tones, perfect intonation and incredible musicality. This is a slightly more [...]
Meet Biscuit In this month’s issue of Bass Musician Magazine, I’ve interviewed a man who has worked very hard to get where he is today, and has become a real force in the competitive world of top bass players. He has played with some of the most prominent Rock artist’s and bands in the world [...]
Meet Jaime Vazquez WELCOME TO THE NEW DECADE! Hope you’ re grooving a lot my friends!!! This time we’ re going to work with the chord tones. So, if you want to go out of the root this is the best choice! Why? Well, they give you the chance to enhance your bass lines. You [...]
Meet B.A. Johnson Chops and intelligence?! HMMM… It was bound to happen. I remember teaching a particularly competitive student as a teenage bass instructor in the early 1980′s. In a desperate attempt to get this person to understand that music is not a competition, I made the unknowingly prophetic remark, “man, there is a musician [...]
Meet Alex Wilkerson Click on link below to download the transcription Reach_For_It_Part_1-Feb2010 This issue’s transcription is the bass solo by Byron Miller on George Duke’s Album: Reach For It. This piece is a great source of ideas for crafting a funky solo, keeping a long solo interesting, and gaining some great pentatonic licks, but most [...]
Meet Bruno Tauzin This month, some ideas for improvising over a Cm7 b5 chords (C Eb Gb Bb). You can use 2 scales: C Locrian (C Db Eb F Gb Ab Bb C) C Locrian #2 (C D Eb F Gb Ab Bb C) As a gift, here a extract from my solo bass album: [...]
Meet Brad Houser I tend to use superlatives a lot. If I try to use them to describe Dirty Projectors, I will run out very quickly and start repeating myself. After all, how many times can one use the words “awesome, unbelievable, genius, stupendous, revolutionary,” etc. without sounding like a moron? (Perhaps I’m already there). [...]
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