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Applied Techniques With Igor Saavedra: How to Approach the Teaching/Learning Process on the Electric Bass

Meet Igor Saavedra One of the most complex things to decide in relation with this topic is to decide whether the bass is mainly a rhythmic...

Latest16 years ago

Jazz Improvisation With Andrea Fascetti: Master Your Fingerboard Part V

Meet Andrea Fascetti Hi my friends! It’s great to be here at Bass Musician Magazine. Last lesson we created some exercises using Major, Minor, and Dominant...

Latest16 years ago

Jazz Studies With Bill Harrison: Play Along Tracks: Lesson 4 – Using the Diminished Scale

Meet Bill Harrison (Note: Please be sure to download both the mp3 playalong track and the pdf file below to get the most benefit from this...

Latest16 years ago

Adam Nitti Technique Series: Practicing With Chord Tones, Part 2: Navigating Changes

Meet Adam Nitti – In this installment, we are going to continue where we left off in part 1 by practicing over some more complex chord...

Latest16 years ago

Scales and Modes With Joshua Barnhart: Chord Scales, a Breakdown of Scales and Their Functions

Meet Joshua Barnhart Welcome to the first installment of a multi-part practice session where we look at Scales and Modes, their functions in music, and some...

Latest17 years ago

Applied Techniques With Igor Saavedra – The Path for a Proper Bass Sound Part 2

Meet Igor Saavedra The chain is only as strong as its weakest link…….. In the last issue we covered links 1 to 7 on this Path...

Latest17 years ago

Jazz Improvisation With Andrea Fascetti – Building Improvisation: Exercises in Action

HI MY FRIENDS, THANK YOU FOR THE INTEREST YOU’VE SHOWN FOR JAZZ IMPROVISATION. I’M REALLY GLAD TO BE HERE AGAIN AND TO BE A PART OF...

Latest17 years ago

Jazz Studies With Bill Harrison – Play Along Tracks: Lesson 3 – Walking The 4 Bar Turnaround

Meet Bill Harrison Please be sure to download both the mp3 playalong track and the pdf file at the end of this page to get the...

Latest17 years ago

Bass Lines With Jaime Vazquez – The Power of the 5th

Meet Jaime David Vazquez – Greetings my friends! This time we’re going to work with the 5. This interval is known as the Perfect 5th. It...

Latest17 years ago

Adam Nitti Technique Series – PRACTICING WITH CHORD TONES: ARPEGGIO INVERSIONS

Meet Adam Nitti A lot of bass players are intimidated by the idea of improvising over chord changes. Although it would be beyond the scope of...

Latest17 years ago

TIMBA BASS: Part 2 – Analysis of clave-based bass movement on “Con La Conciencia Tranquila” (audio + transcriptions)

by Michael Lazarus In Part 1 of this series I outlined the mayor trends in the bass movement for the title track of Paulito F.G.’s classic...

Latest17 years ago

Taking My Own Advice: Slap Basics With Doug Johns

Meet Doug Johns – I wanted to continue with the ideas from my last article, “Drummers Rule,” and really stress the importance of the bass and...

Latest17 years ago

The Path for a Proper Bass Sound Part 1: Applied Techniques With Igor Saavedra

Meet Igor Saavedra – The chain is only as strong as its weakest link…….. It’s that simple my friends; this is exactly what happens with our...

Latest17 years ago

Building Improvisation: Master Your Fingerboard Part IV – Jazz Improvisation With Andrea Fascetti

Meet Andrea Fascetti – Hi my friends! I’m so glad to be here again, and I’m really honored to be on the staff of this great...

How To17 years ago

Play Along Tracks: Lesson 2 – Walking the ii/V: Jazz Studies With Bill Harrison

Meet Bill Harrison – Please download the pdf at the end of this page to get the most benefit out of this lesson. Last time I...

Bass Musician Magazine, The Face of Bass

Applied Techniques With Igor Saavedra: How to Approach the Teaching/Learning Process on the Electric Bass

Jazz Improvisation With Andrea Fascetti: Master Your Fingerboard Part V

Jazz Studies With Bill Harrison: Play Along Tracks: Lesson 4 – Using the Diminished Scale

Adam Nitti Technique Series: Practicing With Chord Tones, Part 2: Navigating Changes

Scales and Modes With Joshua Barnhart: Chord Scales, a Breakdown of Scales and Their Functions

Applied Techniques With Igor Saavedra – The Path for a Proper Bass Sound Part 2

Jazz Improvisation With Andrea Fascetti – Building Improvisation: Exercises in Action

Jazz Studies With Bill Harrison – Play Along Tracks: Lesson 3 – Walking The 4 Bar Turnaround

Bass Lines With Jaime Vazquez – The Power of the 5th

Adam Nitti Technique Series – PRACTICING WITH CHORD TONES: ARPEGGIO INVERSIONS

TIMBA BASS: Part 2 – Analysis of clave-based bass movement on “Con La Conciencia Tranquila” (audio + transcriptions)

Taking My Own Advice: Slap Basics With Doug Johns

The Path for a Proper Bass Sound Part 1: Applied Techniques With Igor Saavedra

Building Improvisation: Master Your Fingerboard Part IV – Jazz Improvisation With Andrea Fascetti

Play Along Tracks: Lesson 2 – Walking the ii/V: Jazz Studies With Bill Harrison

Artist Updated With The Revivalists’ Bassist George Gekas

Maestro Ron Carter, Sharing the Spirit – June/July 2026 Issue

New Music: Danielle Nicole, Tug Of War

Right Hand Technique Strategies with Dr. Randy Kertz

New Music: Golden Flower, Are You Even Awake?

Right Hand Technique Strategies with Dr. Randy Kertz

April 13 Edition – This Week’s Top 10 Basses on Instagram

April 27 Edition – This Week’s Top 10 Basses on Instagram

20 April Edition – This Week’s Top 10 Basses on Instagram

May 4 Edition – This Week’s Top 10 Basses on Instagram