Bass Guitar Lesson Funky Bubbling with Warwick Artist Andy Irvine… Funky Finger Style Bubbling, Ghost noting, Jaco/Rocco vibe. Bass Gear Warwick Streamer Stage1 Custom Andy Irvine...
Bass Lines by Jaime Vazquez: Pumpin’ Eights… Hello BMM & Community! This month we will rock the eight notes. How? Check this out! If you listen carefully...
Pattern: a regular form or sequence. Scale: a series of sounds in alphabetical order. Theory Music is math, or to put it another way music is made-up of...
One of the great challenges I find with improvising is finding ways to smoothly transition from being inside the box harmonically and sounding out. I hear...
It seems obvious: if we want to truly become excellent worship bass musicians, we must practice our craft. However, how to practice (and how to do...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
HI, MY “BASS” FRIENDS! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE POSITIVE FEEDBACK ON THE “SPEED” EXERCISES. THE EXERCISE I SUGGESTED LAST TIME IS THE FIRST PART...
We covered some rhythmic concepts a while back, and now I’m going to give you another simple yet powerful exercise that will improve your bass line...
Hi my friends, it’s great to be writing for you on this very first 2012 issue. I hope you had great holidays and that you are...
In this first article of mine I would like to express some ideas I developed through the years, having been a student, having attended classes with...