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...
Haken Bassist Conner Green… By definition, Progressive Rock or Progressive Metal are musical genres that push the envelope and the boundaries of where Rock or Metal...
The 43 ESSENTIAL Rhythmic Subdivisions You Need to Know… Welcome back, friends! In Music Mechanics 15 we’ll review the definition of “common” rhythms, discuss the improper...
Bass Demo of the ESP LTD GB-4… Here comes my review of ESP Guitars LTD GB-4 bass. Amazing retro-future design, punchy and versatile tone, and with...
Bassist Tarik Hassan… I am always excited to talk with upright bass players but even more when they double up on electric bass and maintain a...
Cover interview with Wolfgang Van Halen… Growing up, Van Halen’s music was an essential load-bearing column for my musical Identity. I was totally into their music...
The Nature of Sound, Music Theory Series… Music Mechanics 14 continues with rhythmic notation, discussing time signatures, a waltz, 4/4 (common time), 2/2 (cut time), ties,...
I was in a recording studio a couple of years ago and was just practicing the song I was about to record. My bandmate was looking...
Christian de Mesones… For over four decades, Christian de Mesones has been laying down the groove from LA to New York and currently in Virginia. He...
Bassist Jon Von Boehm on his new album ‘Hustle’, featuring Aly Cutter. On ‘Hustle’, expect the unexpected, in my opinion, should really be the name of...
Bass Demo: Maruszczyk Custom Elwood Here comes my review of Maruszczyk Custom Shop Elwood 5-string bass. What a black beast! Features an alder body, hard rock...
