A Retuning Experiment by Jimi Durso… I stole this idea from someone else, but can’t remember who (so I can’t fully give them credit, but I don’t...
LickLibrary Launches Slap Bass In Six Weeks DVD with Bassist Phil Williams… Slap Bass In Six Weeks, LickLibrary’s new DVD six part set is designed to...
Study Without Light by Jimi Durso… Living in the northeast, I was one of the people who didn’t have electricity for a bit after hurricane Sandy. Though...
Bass Lines with Jaime Vazquez – Grooving with Led Boots… Hello BMM Readers! Thank YOU for a GREAT YEAR! We’re here for YOU! We’re close to...
Jazz Improvisation with Andrea Fascetti: Bebop Part 8, Your Voice! HI MY “BASS” FRIENDS! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT MY LAST LESSON,...
10 Obsessive Tips for Improving Your Rhythmic Abilities by Igor Saavedra… Believe me, I’ve done all this crazy stuff myself throughout the years…. well, I am a...
BASS LINES BY JAIME VAZQUEZ: TOMMY SHANNON’S STYLE! Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month we have a master of the blues bass, Tommy...
Jazz Improvisation with Andrea Fascetti: Bebop Special for Bass… HI MY BASS FRIENDS! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT BEBOP FOR BASS. THE...
Our reader question this month comes from bassist Jeremy King: “When soloing on bass, I want to be able to incorporate chord substitutions, but don’t really...
Brad Russell Bass Video Lesson – Soloing over Mixolydian… some cool sweep patterns over a mixolydian sound of “Shapes of Things.”
Brad Russell Bass Video Lesson – Soloing Over Low Rider… different scales you can use to solo over the groove to “Low Rider.”
Finding Your Own Voice by Jimi Durso – Extended Techniques… “Extended techniques” is a term generally applied to any unconventional approach the instrument. Of course, a...
With the ever-shrinking budgets of most civic theatres and playhouses, the music director finds themselves hiring a smaller pit than what the original orchestration calls for. Suddenly the...
BASS LINES BY JAIME VAZQUEZ: THE SIXTEENTH-NOTE GROOVE PART V – GARY WILLIS’ STYLE…Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This is Part v! Dedicated...
HI MY “BASS” FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES! HOW ARE YOU? I HOPE YOU’RE OK, BECAUSE TODAY WE WILL DO A VERY INTENSIVE LESSON! SO IT’S TIME FOR...