This month’s article will address, which in my opinion, is probably the most important asset that we the bass players have when it comes to exercising our profession…...
HI MY FRIENDS!!!! IT’S REALLY COOL TO BE HERE AGAIN. I’M AMAZED TO BE AMONG THIS AWESOME STAFF; BASS MUSICIAN MAGAZINE IS REALLY GROWING FAST! I...
Building the ultimate musical instrument would be a noble goal for any inspired craftsman. Such an instrument would need to have multiple sonic capabilities and an...
Used for educational reasons This is my bass line transcriptions from the musical RENT (Which I was assistant director for in Hollywood). Rent is a musical with...
Jaco Pastorius met Joni Mitchell in 1976. Joni has said in interviews that at that time, around 1975-76 that she wanted a different kind of bass...
Welcome back to my lessons on world domination. This month we’re going to look into open chord triads, as opposed to last month were we looked...
Meet Igor Saavedra – The word “Professional” is like a rubber band that can be expanded everywhere on its meaning depending on what somebody would like...
Meet Carl Dawkins – So this is going to be the last article for a while in this series of tips for the up and coming...
Meet Steve Gregory – The other day, I heard a recording of an Elvis performance that went horribly, horribly wrong. The band went one direction, “the...
Meet Andrea Fascetti – HI MY FRIENDS, IT’S GREAT TO BE HERE AGAIN AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT MY LESSONS. REMEMBER THAT...
Meet Bill Harrison – Last time (http://tinyurl.com/minorkeymystery) we had a quiet little chat about using the harmonic minor scale as our “go to” choice for V...
by Alex Wilkerson – This month’s transcription is Ray Brown’s Bass line from “Surrey with the Fringe on Top” (Download: Surrey – Ray Brown – Transcription), off...
Meet Joshua Barnhart – Very recently I complied a list of the 23 most common Jazz chords. Maj6 Maj7 Maj9 Maj#11 Maj13 Min6 Min7 Min9 Min11...
Meet Joshua Barnhart – Welcome back to the third installment of our chord studies. This month we’re going to just look at 7th chords. In most...
Meet Andreas Farmakalidis – L-O-V-E” is a Jazz song written by Bert Kaempfert and Milt Gabler for American singer/pianist Nat King Cole’s 1965 album L-O-V-E. I...
