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...
Just the Two of Us – Bass Transcription by Andreas Farmakalidis… “Just the Two of Us” is a Grammy award winning R&B song that was written by Bill...
Finding Your Own Voice Stealing Ideas by Jimi Durso… A phrase I commonly use with students is: “Don’t steal the lick, steal the idea”. Just like...
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...
G.A.S Rehab Center Online… Have Gear Acquisition Syndrome? We can help you! by Igor Saavedra… Dear G.A.S patients, your doctor talking…. I assume all of you have...
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...
Creating an Experience by Allee Futterer… We’ve all seen these YouTube videos of Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, the list goes on… but what’s up? Why...
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...
From Associate Editor Rick Suchow… I’d like to introduce a new regular feature in Bass Musician Magazine beginning this month. Ed Lucie is the Associate Professor of the...
