** Note: At the end of this page is the music download of the lesson. Please scroll to the bottom, click to open, and then continue...
For this installment, I’d like to get back to basics and share with you some tips that address the mechanics of hand technique. We will focus...
Meet Phil Baker – A NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD – VOL. 1 I consider Sonny Rollins’ “A Night at the Village Vanguard” to be one...
It’s the Things In Between…. Things in between? What the hell is he talking about? A sandwich? No, I’m talking about the things in between that...
Playing across the neck is the real secret behind an Extended Range Instrument (ERI). Whatever position you play in, first, third, fifth, you have several octaves...
In time, I’ve realized that there are several landmark growth moments in anything that you attempt to master. That goes for anything and anyone. As it...
In this month’s installment of Pick’s Transcription Workshop I’ve chosen to focus on a young technically brilliant bass phenom from France named Hadrien Feraud. If you...
In my last article I posed a leading question to the readers… A magnetic pickup on an electric bass (or guitar) can not hear wood resonance...
As musicians, we’ve all been listening to music we love for a long time. I used to sit and listen to Weather Report, or Pat Metheny,...
Hello, Everybody, and welcome to the second installment of Opening the Slap Style Vocabulary. Recently, drummer Chris Ceja and I played at Pete Decuir’s BassQuake in...
Click on the docment below to launch the Slap Triad Arpeggios lesson. Download Ray_Riendeau_Slap_Arpeggios.mov
I have a band called the Traveling Black Hillbilly’s. I play Banjo and Bass in the band. We played for a festival in Ohio in September...
I recall the days when I’d go into the studio as a hired hand and all I needed to ask is “Do you want me to...
Please click on the link below, Jaco-Used to be a Cha Cha, to download the transcription. Jaco-Used_To_Be_a_Cha_Cha
The ability to transcribe, or write down on paper what you hear on a recording, is one of the most valuable tools a musician can possess....