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ArtistWorks School of Bass Offers Bass Lesson at NAMM with Missy Raines Bass… ArtistWorks will be unveiling its fourteenth online music school at the 2012 Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California,19-22 January. The leaders in online music education will announce new online schools for Dobro and Latin Percussion to join their twelve existing schools and two academies [...]
Hi my friends, it’s great to be writing for you on this very first 2012 issue. I hope you had great holidays and that you are prepared to work and to improve on your musicality. I can tell you that I’m already studying new things because I’ve got a lot to learn! On the previous [...]
In this first article of mine I would like to express some ideas I developed through the years, having been a student, having attended classes with more than one teacher, being actually a teacher myself since I graduated at the academy where I’ve studied the electric bass and being a senior student for an MA [...]
In my most recent performance with Coincidence Machine, I was reminded again of the power of the inner critic. We all have one. It’s that voice in your head that tells you your line doesn’t groove, or that what you came up with isn’t hip enough, is too unusual, or too conventional, or whatever else [...]
In my first article for Bass Musician Magazine, there was a sentence that bears repeating: “Have I mentioned that in our relationship, my wife is the smart one?” This truth was once again proven to me during a recent conversation. While my wife and I were cooking dinner, I vented my concern over a rehearsal [...]
I’d like to demystify what players think is magic about the playability of instruments. So much is measurable. I think it is impossible to set up an instrument well without measuring. Your fingers are incredibly sensitive. I don’t think you can just adjust string height to feel—you need to adjust to measurements, then it will [...]
Hello everyone, welcome back from the holidays. Hope life is treating you well. This month we’re going to wrap up our talk about chords and chord theory. This time we’re going to explore the construction of chords from the melody note; a great tool for learning to play solo arrangements of songs on your bass. [...]
HI MY “BASS FRIENDS” AND COLLEAGUES! I’M VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE AGAIN. BASS MUSICIAN MAGAZINE IS REALLY GREAT, AND I REALLY LIKE ALL OF THE COOL LESSONS AND ARTICLES HERE… FANTASTIC WORK! IN THE LAST LESSON I TALKED ABOUT A DAILY ROUTINE THAT HELPS YOU TO PRACTICE, AND I HOPE YOU USE THIS ON [...]
Welcome to 2012! This month is for the metalheads! We’re going to study some heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) basslines. The bass in metal music is frequently supporting and doubling the guitar lines. But there’s some space for bass players to add more notes. There are bass players that are pushing the boundaries [...]
So, what about the “poetical” and “lyrical” aspects of improvisation, and how important are they within the improvisational context? I already mentioned on the first part of this series that in my opinion “Improvising is composing in real time”, so what about “The Content” of this real time composition? What about the “story” you want [...]
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