The Autobiography of Jerry Scheff – Playing Bass with Elvis, Dylan, the Doors and More... In this candid and perceptive memoir of his 45-year career, bassist...
Working with Audio Instructional Resource Distributed by Alfred Music Publishing… Alfred Music Publishing, the world leader in educational print music publishing since 1922, distributes Working with Audio, a fundamental...
Tiggzi for Musicians Enables Artists to Easily Create Their Own Mobile Applications… Exadel™, a leading global software engineering company, has unveiled Tiggzi for Musicians, a Web-based mobile...
Hal Leonard’s best-selling book and DVD series MusicPro Guides brings together the most experienced authors in the music industry to give established and aspiring music professionals...
Rumble Fish by Fabio Zaganin… I always get a little excited when I get a CD from Brazil, as I am a huge fan of Brazilian...
The Ultimate Bass Songbook Published by Hal Leonard… I would venture to guess that all of us that play the bass have spent countless hours lifting...
The New Universe Music Festival 2010… Where were you on the nights of November 20 and 21 of 2010? If your answer wasn’t, “At the Abstract Logix...
I’ve been referring to it as my “perfect storm” of gigs; eight in three days. It was probably the only time when I had a legitimate...
Tetrachord : scale series of four notes Legato: Bound, smooth; even passage of notes Theory If you have ever played scales, then you are unwittingly playing tetra chords; chances...
Jammit… Picture this: You’re in your practice room trying to figure out a bass line from the original recording. You’ve almost got it, but there are a...
Reading music (and in our case bass lines) has always been important for musicians. First of all, it’s a matter of principle. Music is a language,...
Welcome. Hope no one has P.T.S.D. from N.A.M.M. Bad jokes aside this time we’re going to run circles around the circle of 5ths. The circle of...
This month I’ve chosen to feature the late tenor sax giant, Michael Brecker’s solo on the extremely demanding John Coltrane composition Giant Steps. Why not feature a...
Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month we will discuss the descarga in latin music, also known as descarga cubana. The descarga was...
Kenny Weydener by Kenny Weydener… You can imagine that I listen to a lot of CD’s and I feel fortunate that a select few of these are...