Meet Joshua Barnhart – Very recently I complied a list of the 23 most common Jazz chords. Maj6 Maj7 Maj9 Maj#11 Maj13 Min6 Min7 Min9 Min11...
Meet Joshua Barnhart – Welcome back to the third installment of our chord studies. This month we’re going to just look at 7th chords. In most...
Just Outside of Normal by Stu Hamm Review by Raul Amador – I met Stu in Anaheim this past January at Winter NAMM. I was standing...
From Editor Jake Kot… Bassist Ray Peterson is the author of the Jaco Pastorius Bass Method. He studied privately with Jaco, and now resides in New...
Meet Andreas Farmakalidis – L-O-V-E” is a Jazz song written by Bert Kaempfert and Milt Gabler for American singer/pianist Nat King Cole’s 1965 album L-O-V-E. I...
Pulso By Marcelo Yakko, a review by Raul Amador Argentina, I’ve never been there but I hope to visit someday! Nonetheless, I have some Argentine friends...
Meet Andrea Fascetti – HI MY FRIENDS! TODAY ENDS A LONG RUN THAT BEGAN IN NOVEMBER 2008 WITH CHORD TONES EXERCISES. I HOPE YOU LIKED THESE...
Meet Igor Saavedra – If the word Dilettante sounds strange to some of you, here is a classical dictionary definition: “Dilettante comes from the Italian word...
Meet Alex Wilkerson – Poinciana – Ahmad Jamal This month’s transcription is Israel Crosby’s bass line from Poinciana off Ahmad Jamal’s album: At the Pershing But...
by Kilian Duarte – Bryan Beller has maintained a frenetic, multi-faceted career as a bassist, composer, writer and clinician for nearly twenty years. On his own,...
Meet Darren Frate – Hey everyone I hope you stayed busy working on some of the altered tuning major chord voicings we did last month. This...
Meet Steve Gregory – The other day I took some time to listen to different live recordings of the song “From the Inside Out” by Hillsong...
The Doctor Is In… DeQuervain’s Syndrome Hello and welcome back. I took a month or so off but am back with a column about DeQuervain’s Syndrome,...
Meet Martin Simpson – For this month’s interview, we travel further North to the Capital City of South Africa – Pretoria – and speak to another...
Meet Editor Jake Kot – I recently received a Facebook message from a bassist asking everyone to write in and share who their most important influence...