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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 [...]
This is it! The last article for the 2011. What a wonderful year! Thank you to all the BMM staff & the Community. I told you, Bass Musician Magazine is taking over the world. Latin music has been influencing music since a long time ago. You can hear latin grooves in jazz, rock, pop, etc. [...]
Welcome to the latest installment of the Worship Bassist’s Toolkit series! We have been investigating the tools that worship bassists must have available, maintained, and ready to use in order to create passionate, musical worship. Thus far, we have looked at Fretboard knowledge, Technique Awareness, and Transcription. There are many other tools to explore in [...]
A Voice To Be Heard - An Interview with Arran McSporran At first glance, the name Arran Mcsporran may not seem familiar, but once this man’s Electric bass works hit your ear you will never forget what you have heard. His beautifully soulful approach, and inventive musicianship are what make Mcsporran stand out amongst your average [...]
When you think of heavy metal bassists, a few names should come to mind. Steve Di Giorgio is definitely one of those names. Spanning his twenty plus year career thus far, Steve has worked with some of the greats in metal history from the likes of Death, Testament and Control Denied to Vintersorg, Iced Earth, [...]
Welcome to the next article in my “Worship Bassist’s Toolkit” series. In this series, we are thinking about tools that worship bassists must have available, maintained, and ready to use in order to create passionate, musical worship. Rather than the physical tools that are required for our craft, we have investigated musical tools such as [...]
In my last article, we started to look at the “worship bassist’s toolkit”. Rather than the cables, tuners, and other physical items we need to have, this toolkit contains the musical tools that are required to create artful worship. In order to be truly free to play with passion, it is critical that these musical [...]
Best known for his work as the bassist for progressive metal sensation, Between the Buried and Me, Dan Briggs is probably the most sought after bassist in the metal scene. Before gaining his reputation as an electric bassist, he was a guitarist, and an upright bass player. He started his studies at Edinboro University in [...]
My father is, among many things, an amazing craftsman. His specialty and passion is woodworking, which requires not only a great deal of skill, but also that the right tools for the job be on hand. The progress of each project on which he works is dependent upon his tools being available, maintained, and ready [...]
Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month I want to show you some excerpts of what I’m playing with Kimary Carrero “The New Voice of Salsa.” Her debut album called “Desahogo” is making a difference in the salsa music scene. The music is modern, passionate, youthful and full of energy. I’m having a [...]
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