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I am fortunate to have an appointment to meet with an amazing teacher each week. This teacher has the remarkable ability to show me positives of my playing, flaws that need to be corrected, and specific situations that I can analyze. The lesson time is tough, but ultimately rewarding, because brutal honesty is an understood [...]
Meet Carl Dawkins – So this is going to be the last article for a while in this series of tips for the up and coming bass player. Don’t worry there will still be the odd article referring back to it but for the coming few months we will be focusing on performance and stage [...]
Meet Carl Dawkins – Hello all, apologies for my absence, and a big thank you to all those who in these last few difficult months have helped in the best ways they knew how. What I would like to talk to you about today is my experience with robbery in the last few months which [...]
For many bass players who are graduating from college or are simply trying to make a career as performer, the hope of finding a full-time gig can be daunting. With opportunities in arts organizations and production companies limited these days, the path of a professional bassist can be an uphill battle. But before you walk [...]
Meet Carl Dawkins – While deciding which topic to focus on next, I hit a bit of a fork in the road. There were several options I considered as far as where to take these columns. Many of them overlapped to a point, but all drew from different criteria I always find circumstantial to the [...]
Meet Carl Dawkins – So I hope you all enjoyed the last article, I had a lot of positive feedback from it, and seeing as we have now covered some of the more depressing aspects about the career, we can focus on the more uplifting side of getting ahead in the music industry. I am [...]
Meet Doug Johns – So, you know how my articles have always ended with the phrase, “Get out there and jam with somebody?” Well, the other day, down at a local club, I did just that. I got a last-minute call to fill the bass chair at a local jam night – which, incidentally, I’m [...]
With the interviews I’ve conducted so far, I found a common thread that I’d like to address. The rules for getting exposure as an artist have changed dramatically over the last decade or so. Each of the artists I spoke to stressed the importance of “being heard”, and getting your music out to the masses [...]
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