Oceans of Slumber Bassist Semir Özerkan… Houston Texas based Prog Metal band Oceans of Slumber is currently in New Your City recording their upcoming album. As...
How to Tune a Bass Guitar… Jeff Suta from Ibanez shows us how to tune a bass guitar. Check out Elixir Strings online at elixirstrings.com/products
Intervals (Part 2) – Simple & Compound Intervals, Shorthand, Steps & Skips… Music Mechanics 18 discusses how to handle problematic interval identifications, shorthand notation for interval...
“The Maw” Bass Play-through, featuring bassist Tyler Capone-Vitale… Bass Musician Magazine premiere…”The Maw” Bass Play-through from the recently released album Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction,...
Brett Marquette… Portland, OR has always been a music hub here in the Northwest. Before the pandemic, there was so much music happening up here that...
Ernie Ball Music Man DarkRay Bass… The Ernie Ball Music Man DarkRay Bass was designed in collaboration with world-renowned bass accessory manufacturer Darkglass Electronics and unlocks...
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...
Intervals (Part 1) – Number, Quality, and the Interval Formula… Music Mechanics 17 introduces the beginnings of harmony with intervals, including an interval’s number, quality, major/minor/augmented/double...
Jim Kerwin… I am always happy to have the opportunity to chat with an upright bass player. I was even more stoked to chat with Jim...
Just Play Puerto Rico… Following his Latin Grammy nomination, in the category “Best Long Form Music Video”, bassist, composer, music producer and filmmaker Matt Geraghty, has...
Interview With Bassist Danny Mo Morris… Danny Mo Morris is a bass player, a professor at Berklee College of Music since 1988, and loves teaching the...
Permutations of the 43 ESSENTIAL Rhythmic Subdivisions You Need to Know… Welcome back, friends! In Music Mechanics 16 we’ll cover permutations of the 43 common subdivisions,...
Pantera “I’m Broken”… Here comes my tribute to Pantera “I’m Broken”, one of my favorite songs, with play along tabs. GEAR: ESP Guitars USA GB-4 bass...
Bassist Don Schiff… There are very few extended-range bass players around so when I get a chance to meet another one I jump at it. Enter...
Bassist Jymmy Tolland… Artist Update: Time really flies and It is hard to believe that it has been almost four years since I last chatted with...