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...
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,...
