Setting Up Your Bass Guitar – Nut Action Height Adjustment… John Carruthers shows us the proper way to adjust the Nut on a bass guitar. This...
Setting Up Your Bass Guitar – Bridge Action Height Adjustment… John Carruthers shows us the proper way to adjust the Bridge. This video is step 2...
Omitted Chord Factors, Modes (Part 1), Modal Music, Monophony, Polyphony, Final In Episode 26 of Music Mechanics well explore how to properly notate omitted chord factors,...
5 Ways to Create a Bass Line – Part IV… Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month we are going to continue with the...
Setting Up Your Bass Guitar – Adjusting The Truss Rod… John Carruthers shows us the proper way to adjust the bass truss rod. This video is...
Bass Hanon… Bass Hanon offers 75 Exercises to Build Endurance and Flexibility for Bass Guitar Players. If you want to work on your bass guitar chops,...
A lesson on how to adjust your left hand on the neck of the bass to have a more fluid motion. Follow me on YouTube
m9th Avoidance, Consonance/Dissonance, Sus Chords, Add Chords, 6/9 Chords, Intro to Extensions In Episode 25 we’re going to finish up with drop voicings, discuss the minor...
How to Upgrade the Tuners on your Fender Bass Guitar… Master Luthier John Carruthers upgrades tuners on a Fender bass by installing a set of Hipshot...
Closed and Open Position Voicings, Register Voicing Tendencies, Drop Voicings In this episode we’ll talk about closed position voicings as well as open position voicings, voicing...
Part III of 5 Ways to Create a Bass Line… Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month we are going to continue with...
Is Music Theory Important for Bass? It depends! What I mean by that is the level of music theory to learn. There are many life situations...
Inversion Chord Symbols, Slash Chords, Voicings, Voices, Doubled Factors, Typical Voicings In this episode of Music Mechanics we’ll discuss how to write chord symbols for inversions,...
After going through the process of learning all the different varieties of chords and arpeggios in root position on your instrument, the next step is to...
How to Clean Your Bass Guitar… Bass Guitars can get really dirty and guitar maintenance is important. Master Luthier John Carruthers will show you the best...