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The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance is delighted to announce that it will once again be supporting the UK’s biggest unsigned music competition, ‘Live and Unsigned’, which has just been launched for 2012. With the chance to play at The O2 in London and £100,000 in prizes, Live and Unsigned is set to attract thousands [...]
The song/lesson for this month is the standard Body and Soul (Cuerpo y Alma) – music by Johnny Green. It’s inspiration is taken from Esperanza Spalding’s Esperanza album (2008). The key is Db major; however because the piece begins with an Eb minor, it means we are in Dorian mode. The technique you are aiming [...]
This Month, Biscuit’s Bassment Reviews Rotosound… Hello my friends, I would like to welcome you all once again to “BISCUIT’S BASSMENT. “In this July 2011 issue of Bass Musician Magazine, I am not so much concentrating on a certain individual who plays the strings this month, but rather on one of the largest companies who actually [...]
You may play Bass, but can you really “Feel it in your soul?” If you can, then let me know, because the chances are, that if you do, and also feel that you have the talent, together with the passion, commitment and a story to tell about yourself and your music, you could have your [...]
Space in the Place is The City Art & Music Project’s weekly in-house jazz session. It’s a live jazz jam, for free, for the people of East London, every Wednesday. They will be booking an eclectic range of artists, bands and collectives playing all styles of jazz; classic and straight up, traditional licks and more [...]
Meet Biscuit In this February/March issue of Bass Musician Magazine, instead of the usual one to one interview with a selected player from the bass playing community, I would like to take this opportunity to write about what exactly these interviews mean to me, as well as this magazine, and most importantly …. You as [...]
Meet Reviewer Damian Erskine – Connect with Damian in the Community Cai Marle-Garcia “Mr. Ears” www.caimarlegarcia.com The UK’s own Cai Marle-Garcia is poised to impress with his debut release, “Mr. Ears”. Primarily a fretless player (sporting a fretless Linc Luthier bass in one pic.. Many don’t know about these beautiful instruments but my first fretless [...]
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