Meet Bill Harrison – As promised last issue, let’s start using backing tracks to work with the most common chord progression in jazz, the ii/V. Please...
Meet Jaime David Vazquez – Are you tired of playing the same bass patterns? Would you like to add some hot stuff to your grooves? Let’s...
Meet Adam Nitti – Welcome back, bass-folk! My last 2 articles dealt with basic tapping exercises designed to introduce you to the techniques used, as well...
Meet Doug Johns – So, you know how my articles have always ended with the phrase, “Get out there and jam with somebody?” Well, the other...
Meet Ray Riendeau – Hi everyone! In this article I’d like to discuss the importance of learning and transcribing things that you want to learn. It...
Meet Lucas Pickford John Coltrane’s seminal modal jazz composition ‘Impressions’ is as challenging as anything he composed even though it only has two chords in it....
Meet Andrea Fascetti Hi my friends!!! How are you? I hope that you have studied hard since the last set of exercises, because in this lesson...
Meet Bill Harrison – Some musical skills are best learned alone – technique, scales and arpeggios, the layout of your fingerboard and so on. Bass Musician...
Meet Bill “WBGO” Lanphier – Flummoxed. That’s a good way to describe someone trying to play Bulgarian meters for the first time. Actually, even guys familiar...
Meet Jaime David Vazquez – Welcome to my bass column! Hope you enjoy and learn a lot about bass playing! This time we’ll work on bass...
Meet Adam Nitti – Welcome back, everyone! In this installment, I want to continue where we left off with my “Tapping 101” column from the December/January...
Meet Doug Johns – If you’re familiar with either of my CD’s, you probably know I love that big band sound – full horn section, Hammond...
by David Dyson – In an ensemble setting, keeping time is the single most important job of a drummer. Guess who is second in line? As...
Meet Lucas Pickford – In 1977 in between his classic Return to Forever albums and his late-80’s Elektric band albums, Chick Corea released a number of...
Meet Andrea Fascetti – Please scroll down to the bottom to download the examples to go with this lesson Hi my friends… Last lesson we discussed...