The last week of working in the theatre has been interesting. During the “warm up” time before the show, the college students in the pit have...
I’ve addressed this issue briefly in couple old articles. But I think it deserves going a little further with the analysis. If I would have to...
Welcome to the next article in my “Worship Bassist’s Toolkit” series. In this series, we are thinking about tools that worship bassists must have available, maintained,...
Hi guys…For the past six lessons we have been talking about the altered tuning of C-G-D-A. and the varous chord voicings and chord scales that go...
Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! For this month, we will work with the “odd time” Bossa Nova. We all know that one of...
Now that you can accent any point in the measure (at least if you did the exercises from last month you can) we can move on...
HI MY DEAR “BASS” FRIENDS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT THE EAR TRAINING LESSONS. LAST LESSON, WE TALKED ABOUT TRANSCRIPTIONS. I KNOW...
So last time we talked about super imposing pentatonic scales over our chord changes. This time we’re going to stick with the same subject matter only...
Hal Leonard Books, the musician‚s best source of books on the music business, audio technology, instrument history, and more, has published The Future of the Music Business ($29.99)...
Complete Idiot’s Guide® to The Music Business TweetChat Hosted by Michael Miller… Every musician who wants to make a living needs to be aware of all aspects...
Hello Everybody! Thanks for all your comments and support! It’s good to know that you are learning! That’s the idea and our goal at BMM! Together...
In my last article, we started to look at the “worship bassist’s toolkit”. Rather than the cables, tuners, and other physical items we need to have,...
A warm welcome to all Bass Musician Magazine readers. In this third lesson we will apply the ‘double thumbing’ technique to the pentatonic scale (please find...
Bass Transcription – John McLaughlin Guitar Solo on Tones For Elvin Jones This month I decided to really give everyone a challenge. This is a guitar...
Here is a deceptively simple exercise to dramatically increase your rhythmic versatility. Take any chord progression and just play the root note on the downbeat. (In...
