A lesson on how to adjust your left hand on the neck of the bass to have a more fluid motion. Follow me on YouTube
m9th Avoidance, Consonance/Dissonance, Sus Chords, Add Chords, 6/9 Chords, Intro to Extensions In Episode 25 we’re going to finish up with drop voicings, discuss the minor...
Closed and Open Position Voicings, Register Voicing Tendencies, Drop Voicings In this episode we’ll talk about closed position voicings as well as open position voicings, voicing...
Part III of 5 Ways to Create a Bass Line… Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month we are going to continue with...
Is Music Theory Important for Bass? It depends! What I mean by that is the level of music theory to learn. There are many life situations...
Inversion Chord Symbols, Slash Chords, Voicings, Voices, Doubled Factors, Typical Voicings In this episode of Music Mechanics we’ll discuss how to write chord symbols for inversions,...
After going through the process of learning all the different varieties of chords and arpeggios in root position on your instrument, the next step is to...
Chord Symbols for 7th Chords, Reasons for Good Notation Practices, and Chord Inversions Welcome back, friends! In this episode we’ll talk about chord symbols for seventh...
Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month we are going to continue with the second part on how to create a bass line...
7th Chord Formula Shorthand, the 7th Chords, Tertian/Non-Tertian 7th Chords, Other 7th Chords In Episode 21 we’ll discuss shorthand notation for the seventh chord formulas, how...
Major/Minor/Augmented/Diminished Triads, Enharmonic Triads, Chord Factors, and Seventh Chords In Music Mechanics 20 we’ll cover how to create a triad on any root, the major/minor/augmented/diminished triads,...
Interval Inversion, Transposition, Chords, Harmony, Triads, Dyads, Chord Symbols Welcome back, friends! In Music Mechanics 19 we’ll cover interval inversion, harmonic and melodic interval inversion, how...
5 Ways to Create a Bass Line – Part I Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month we are going to cover the...
Intervals (Part 2) – Simple & Compound Intervals, Shorthand, Steps & Skips… Music Mechanics 18 discusses how to handle problematic interval identifications, shorthand notation for interval...
“The Maw” Bass Play-through, featuring bassist Tyler Capone-Vitale… Bass Musician Magazine premiere…”The Maw” Bass Play-through from the recently released album Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction,...