After spending some time working my plucking hand with Austrian born Bernhard Lackner’s book, I was eager to hear Bernard perform on his new CD...
Alfred Music Publishing, the leader in educational music resources since 1922, now distributes Guitar World: How to Play Heavy Metal Bass, an instructional DVD on how to...
Hal Leonard Books, the musician‚s best source of books on the music business, audio technology, instrument history, and more, has published The Future of the Music Business ($29.99)...
Complete Idiot’s Guide® to The Music Business TweetChat Hosted by Michael Miller… Every musician who wants to make a living needs to be aware of all aspects...
I had a completely different article written about digital tuners and my thoughts on them that was going to post today. Last weekend was a Moody...
Hello Everybody! Thanks for all your comments and support! It’s good to know that you are learning! That’s the idea and our goal at BMM! Together...
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,...
A warm welcome to all Bass Musician Magazine readers. In this third lesson we will apply the ‘double thumbing’ technique to the pentatonic scale (please find...
Bass Transcription – John McLaughlin Guitar Solo on Tones For Elvin Jones This month I decided to really give everyone a challenge. This is a guitar...
Here is a deceptively simple exercise to dramatically increase your rhythmic versatility. Take any chord progression and just play the root note on the downbeat. (In...
How many times have you heard phrases like “This is a Classic Bass Technique”, “I like classic basses”, “Electric Bass Tradition”, and a hundred more phrases that...
Bass Gear Review: Ibanez Promethean P5115K combo 500W Combo 15″ Speaker “Kickback” style Cabinet Dome tweeter with passive crossover 6 band graphic EQ Bass and Treble...
HI MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUES, IT’S GREAT TO BE HERE AGAIN! …HOPE YOU APPRECIATED MY LAST LESSON ABOUT JOHN PATITUCCI’S GIANT STEPS SOLO. TODAY WE COME...
Gear review: Ibanez Grooveline 4 and 5 String Basses Alder/ash body 5 piece Wenge/Bubinga bolt on neck Rosewood fingerboard CAP Sonic Arch J style humbucking pickups...
This review could be really easy…. A new release CD titled “Guitar Man” by the incomparable George Benson… Nuff said! This Grammy award winning guitar icon...