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Used for educational reasons This is my bass line transcriptions from the musical RENT (Which I was assistant director for in Hollywood). Rent is a musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Puccini’s opera La boheme. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and [...]
Check out Bakithi Kumalo Playing the Kala U-Bass for Paul Simon on the Jimmy Fallon Show:
Overton is pleased to announce that OvertonAmps.com is live and being continuously updated with exciting new products and information. Tutorial videos and demos will be posted and the site will continue to evolve as the line expands. In addition Overt?n’s Facebook page, Overt?n Amps will feature announcements, product information and user discussions. Overt?n is dedicated to [...]
Jaco Pastorius met Joni Mitchell in 1976. Joni has said in interviews that at that time, around 1975-76 that she wanted a different kind of bass player, a bass player that could play melodies and chords. Well she got that and a lot more. Their collaborations produced some of the most eclectic, melodic, jazz-meets-folk music [...]
Welcome back to my lessons on world domination. This month we’re going to look into open chord triads, as opposed to last month were we looked at closed position triads. First lets take a look at Major. The simplest way I’ve found to pull most of these off is to take the second voice from [...]
The Funky Bass Book… Do you remember when one of the major television networks was hyping the re-runs they were showing with a, “If you haven’t see it, it’s new to you” motto? Well, they were kind of right. You can enjoy something you didn’t see when it first came out as much as you [...]
Plucking Hand Workout For Electric Bass by Bernard Lackner… Have you ever wanted to play better? Have you identified the problem to be your plucking hand? Are the exercises that you already know just not giving you the results you want? If so, then this is the book for you! Bernard Lackner has sat down [...]
“No Brainer Play Bass” is an entry-level instructional aid just loaded with good information. (I am not too flattered by the suggestion that you don’t need a brain to play our beloved instrument but I will look past this detail). An impressive team of authors collaborated on this tome including Chuck Archard, Dan Bennett, L.C. [...]
SQUIER, MATT FREEMAN SIGNATURE PRECISION BASS, MATT FREEMAN, PRECISION BASS… Punk legend Matt Freeman is known for his monster bass work with Rancid, Operation Ivy and, more recently, Devils Brigade, and Squier now honors the man and his sound with the new Matt Freeman Signature Precision Bass guitar. Modeled after his beloved and battle-hardened mid-’70s [...]
Bag End Brings Storms to Life at Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry…… The new 26,00-square-foot, two-story “Science Storms” exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry lets visitors experience a 40-foot tornado, high-voltage lightning and even create a tsunami in a 30-foot wave tank as they try more than 50 hands-on experiments. Helping make [...]
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