Melodic Minor Diatonic Formula, Chord Progression, Arpeggiation, Parent Scale in Melody/Improv Hi friends! In Music Mechanics 30 we’ll continue with the melodic minor scale and discuss...
Martin Wind presents the double bass in an entirely new way with his New York Bass Quartet album AIR – available February 25, 2022 via Laika Records…...
Grooves For Drums And Bass by Cristiano Micalizzi… Grooves for Drums & Bass is a collection of over 200 rhythms in a wide variety of musical...
Bassist Matt Snell… If you are a heavy metal fan and Matt Snell looks familiar to you, it is probably because he has played with multiple,...
Bruce Hughes, Late Night Polaroids… On Late Night Polaroids, the renowned bassist Bruce Hughes plays frontman on his new release, giving us smart, playful pop tunes...
Bassist’s Guide to Scales Over Chords: The Foundation of Effective Bass Lines… Bass players know scales. We practice them up and down, in different keys and...
Don’t Get Lemon, Hyper Hollow Heaven… Texas heatwave trio Don’t Get Lemon, with bassist Bryan Walters, creates a swirling tension around electronic-pop and fears and anxiety...
Setting Up Your Bass Guitar – Intonation Adjustment… John Carruthers shows us the proper way to set the intonation on a bass guitar. This video is...
Natural/Harmonic Minor Diatonic Chords, Hybrid Minor Diatonic Chords (Borrowed), Melodic Minor In this episode of Music Mechanics, we delve deeper into the minor scales with a...
Mike Goodspeed, Oort Cloud… Sophomore release “Oort Cloud” expands on the musical ideas of debut EP “…Bass Fishing”. Mike Goodspeed’s new release “Oort Cloud” is due...
Sittin’ In with Rocco Prestia of Tower of Power (Play-It-Like-It-Is Bass) Sittin’ In with Rocco Prestia… A funk institution and Tower of Power founding member, Rocco...
PESTILENCE’s Joost van der Graaf Explores Medieval Dancing Plagues w/ Experimental Prog/Funk Project CHOREOMANIC… CHOREOMANIC saw the light when the world came to a halt in spring 2020...
Fruition Announces “Live, Vol. 1” with Bassist Jeff Leonard… Fruition is happy to announce their first-ever live release, “Live, Vol. 1” which is due out January...
Brian Gregory… I was very happy to get a chance to chat with Brian Gregory while he is back in the US after some time in...
In this issue, we take a closer look at the Fender Player Plus Jazz Bass… The Fender Player Plus Jazz Bass is available in: Olympic Pearl,...