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Jazz Studies With Bill Harrison: Play Along Tracks: Lesson 4 – Using the Diminished Scale

Meet Bill Harrison (Note: Please be sure to download both the mp3 playalong track and the pdf file below to get the most benefit from this...

Latest16 years ago

Adam Nitti Technique Series: Practicing With Chord Tones, Part 2: Navigating Changes

Meet Adam Nitti – In this installment, we are going to continue where we left off in part 1 by practicing over some more complex chord...

Latest16 years ago

Scales and Modes With Joshua Barnhart: Chord Scales, a Breakdown of Scales and Their Functions

Meet Joshua Barnhart Welcome to the first installment of a multi-part practice session where we look at Scales and Modes, their functions in music, and some...

Latest16 years ago

Pino Palladino: Assasin by Manuel Pino

Meet Manuel Pino Click on link below to download the transcription Feb2010-Assassin_Bass_transcriptionv_pdf.mus Being a big fan of laidback grooves that ooze with coolness, and slippery behind...

Latest16 years ago

James Jamerson: What’s Happening Brother by Alex Wilkerson

Meet Alex Wilkerson Click on link at the bottom of this page to download the transcription This transcription is an amazing piece from one of the...

Latest16 years ago

Getting You Name Out There: Internet Marketing with Carl Dawkins

Meet Carl Dawkins – Hello all, and welcome to the next installment on how to further yourself as a musician in the industry. This article is...

Latest16 years ago

Applied Techniques With Igor Saavedra – The Path for a Proper Bass Sound Part 2

Meet Igor Saavedra The chain is only as strong as its weakest link…….. In the last issue we covered links 1 to 7 on this Path...

Latest16 years ago

Jazz Improvisation With Andrea Fascetti – Building Improvisation: Exercises in Action

HI MY FRIENDS, THANK YOU FOR THE INTEREST YOU’VE SHOWN FOR JAZZ IMPROVISATION. I’M REALLY GLAD TO BE HERE AGAIN AND TO BE A PART OF...

Latest16 years ago

Jazz Studies With Bill Harrison – Play Along Tracks: Lesson 3 – Walking The 4 Bar Turnaround

Meet Bill Harrison Please be sure to download both the mp3 playalong track and the pdf file at the end of this page to get the...

Latest16 years ago

Bass Lines With Jaime Vazquez – The Power of the 5th

Meet Jaime David Vazquez – Greetings my friends! This time we’re going to work with the 5. This interval is known as the Perfect 5th. It...

Latest16 years ago

Adam Nitti Technique Series – PRACTICING WITH CHORD TONES: ARPEGGIO INVERSIONS

Meet Adam Nitti A lot of bass players are intimidated by the idea of improvising over chord changes. Although it would be beyond the scope of...

Latest16 years ago

TIMBA BASS: Part 2 – Analysis of clave-based bass movement on “Con La Conciencia Tranquila” (audio + transcriptions)

by Michael Lazarus In Part 1 of this series I outlined the mayor trends in the bass movement for the title track of Paulito F.G.’s classic...

Latest17 years ago

Taking My Own Advice: Slap Basics With Doug Johns

Meet Doug Johns – I wanted to continue with the ideas from my last article, “Drummers Rule,” and really stress the importance of the bass and...

Latest17 years ago

Marcus Miller’s “Power” from the M2 Album by Alex Wilkerson

Meet Alex Wilkerson – This transcription is of Marcus Miller’s “Power” from the M2 album. This song uses virtually no finger style bass, but rather all...

Latest17 years ago

The Path for a Proper Bass Sound Part 1: Applied Techniques With Igor Saavedra

Meet Igor Saavedra – The chain is only as strong as its weakest link…….. It’s that simple my friends; this is exactly what happens with our...

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Jazz Studies With Bill Harrison: Play Along Tracks: Lesson 4 – Using the Diminished Scale

Adam Nitti Technique Series: Practicing With Chord Tones, Part 2: Navigating Changes

Scales and Modes With Joshua Barnhart: Chord Scales, a Breakdown of Scales and Their Functions

Pino Palladino: Assasin by Manuel Pino

James Jamerson: What’s Happening Brother by Alex Wilkerson

Getting You Name Out There: Internet Marketing with Carl Dawkins

Applied Techniques With Igor Saavedra – The Path for a Proper Bass Sound Part 2

Jazz Improvisation With Andrea Fascetti – Building Improvisation: Exercises in Action

Jazz Studies With Bill Harrison – Play Along Tracks: Lesson 3 – Walking The 4 Bar Turnaround

Bass Lines With Jaime Vazquez – The Power of the 5th

Adam Nitti Technique Series – PRACTICING WITH CHORD TONES: ARPEGGIO INVERSIONS

TIMBA BASS: Part 2 – Analysis of clave-based bass movement on “Con La Conciencia Tranquila” (audio + transcriptions)

Taking My Own Advice: Slap Basics With Doug Johns

Marcus Miller’s “Power” from the M2 Album by Alex Wilkerson

The Path for a Proper Bass Sound Part 1: Applied Techniques With Igor Saavedra

Interview With Bassist Tim Neilsen

Gear News: Fender Unveils Highly Anticipated Vintera III Series

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Interview With Bassist Virginia Franks

Nathan East, Echoes of a Lineage – April/May 2026 Issue

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