Indie Bible Music Directory Is Now Online… The Indie Bible ONLINE is a POWERFUL tool for independent artists of ALL GENRES. It allows the artist to search for resources...
Bassist Justin Gray Marries Tradition and Invention with the Bass Veena by Tatiana Kostiak… When Toronto bass musician Justin Gray hit a limitation in his quest to...
Joseph “BEARCLAW” Burcaw – Bass Musician Magazine Q&A… Name: Joseph “BEARCLAW” Burcaw Born In What City: Akron, Ohio Current Band(s) I Play With: “GI Blythe” “Black...
Of Bread and Circus: How to Handle an Audience that is Not on Your Side by Kilian Duarte… As many of us learned in elementary school history,...
Getting Rid of Tendonitis for Good by Igor Saavedra – Part 1… I’m sure many of you know that I started very late in music when...
See Us Now by Riversyde… Have you ever noticed that when you try something new, like a different meat, (Frog, snake, gator, Iguana,) we always compare it...
Creating Bass Lines by Rhayn Jooste… This series of articles is in response to a question I had on twitter that I was not able to formulate...
Keithen “Bassman” Foster… Being born into a military family that moved a lot seems like the perfect set up for life as a touring bassist. After...
RICO BELLED’s XR7 – Five of Eight Bass Transcription by Andreas Farmakalidis… Grammy nominated bass player for the contemporary jazz band ‘Rippingtons’. For the last 20 years...
ProTone Pedals Nectar Chorus by Jon Moody… Let’s face it; ever since many of us heard Jaco on the “Heavy Weather album from Weather Report, we’ve secretly lusted...
BASS LINES BY JAIME VAZQUEZ: THE SIXTEENTH-NOTE GROOVE PART III – DAVE ELLEFSON’S STYLE… Hello bass players! Welcome to the third part of the article devoted...
Encyclopedia of Soul Grooves: Donald “Duck” Dunn’s Classic Bass Lines By Rob Collier… The bass world was saddened by the news that Donald “Duck” Dunn, best known...
Finding Your Own Voice – Cross Pollination by Jimi Durso… One great way to expand what you’re musically capable of (and thus find out what you really...
Hal Leonard Blues Play-Along, Albert Collins… “Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues,” is the first thing I think of when I think of Albert Collins....
Fear: An Enemy of Excellence… At the beginning of 2012, I wrote a column in which I challenged worship bassists to strive for excellence. Rather than...