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Start Your (Creative) Engines! by Steve Gregory… The worship bassist is an interesting animal. Insert a nature documentary voice-over here: “Here we see worship bassists in their natural habitat – the church. Highly skilled in interpreting others’ works, the worship bassist’s primary role is to support the worship function. Our team has noted that, over [...]
It seems obvious: if we want to truly become excellent worship bass musicians, we must practice our craft. However, how to practice (and how to do so effectively and efficiently) is one of the biggest problems in the worship bass world (and often, in the bass world in general). Many of us have had symptoms [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Joy by Patrick Andy… Musicians by definition are the gifted individuals that have the ability to express themselves through what I have previously described as the “Universal Language”…. Music! We use our musical voice to speak out about our feelings. We share our love, pain, anger, desperation, happiness, freight, hope, and most importantly Joy! Patrick [...]
Meet Steve Gregory – The other day, I heard a recording of an Elvis performance that went horribly, horribly wrong. The band went one direction, “the King” went another, and chaos ensued. The struggle to get everyone on the same page continued for almost a minute before the implosion was complete and the show ground [...]
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