This month we’re going to touch on two subjects. Super imposition of modes is the topic, and the way I’m going to explain it is by...
Hello Bass Players! Here we are celebrating the anniversary of BMM. It’s a great honor for me to be a part of the Family! For this...
Hello all, it’s been a while- thanks for hanging in there. I’d like to go over some material I presented recently in a pair of lectures...
My father is, among many things, an amazing craftsman. His specialty and passion is woodworking, which requires not only a great deal of skill, but also...
There are a number of musical devices that can be used to build deep, meaningful worship experiences. One such device that is often used in both...
When a melodic line can have as much as a “Bass Taste” than the Bass Line itself… In my opinion, one of the best albums of...
Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month I want to show you some excerpts of what I’m playing with Kimary Carrero “The...
Kilian Duarte reviews the PJB Bass Cub for Bass Musician Magazine!
Yiorgos’s latest effort, Maestro, was a project years in the making. He was hired to create music for the play, “Fantasy and Fuge”, based on the...
Used for educational reasons This is another of my bass line transcriptions from the musical RENT (Which I was assistant director for in Hollywood). A “minimalistic” bass line...
HI MY “BASS” FRIENDS! SUMMER IS COMING AND FOR MANY OF US IT IS REALLY HARD PRACTICING BASS. HOWEVER, YOU KNOW THAT I’M CRAZY, AND I...
Hi everyone. Last time we looked at the dorian, phrygian and lydian modes in the altered tuning of C-G-D-A. This month we will finish up with...
Hello and welcome back, hope you’ve enjoyed studying scales and chords relationships with me. This month, because of the amount of questions I get from my...
This month’s transcription is the final half of Jimmy Garrison’s Bass line from “Crescent”, off John Coltrane’s album Crescent. It starts at 4:21 as noted at...
Even at the earliest of ages, it was clear to those around him that Pat Hicks was destined for something great. In his memoir “Trading Fours:...
