The Smoogies debut album, Planet Smoogies, featuring special guest Nicholas Payton. “A new and fresh sound that combines some of the finest aspects of Funk, Afro-Cuban...
Renowned Bassist Santi Debriano to Release New Album, Flash of the Spirit on Truth Revolution Records… The Truth Revolution Recording Collective is proud to announce the release of Flash of the Spirit, a...
The Nature of Sound, part 4 in this music theory series. In this episode, we’ll explore timbre a little more along with the 8 factors affecting...
Leland Sklar has been really busy since we last chatted back in 2017. View Lee Sklar Feb 2017 Cover Interview It is always great catching up...
Here we are in January 2021… and 2020 has been a life-altering year that has made A HISTORICAL LANDMARK of the year gone by. I mean...
Pierluigi Balducci, Electric Wood… Pierluigi shares… On this record I have collected a series of recordings for bass solo and for two overdub basses, implementing an...
Mikael Berglund, Nordicana… Mikael shares… With the extensive amount of new releases in these days and times and all the technique ’show-offs’ on YouTube and other...
Ear Training For Bassists Vol 1… Ear Training For Bassists Vol 1, by Bass Musician Contributor David C. Gross. When we talk about ear training, most...
Bassist Todd Phillips… Bluegrass music always cheers me up so it was especially great to talk to a pillar of that community on upright and acoustic,...
Welcome to Music Mechanics, the Virtual Instruments edition! In this first installment we discuss virtual instruments, attack, sustain, release, sample libraries, mock-ups, digital audio workstations (DAWs),...
Chromatic Major Sounds In Two Octaves… One of the most important guiding thoughts that can be used to ready yourself for serious low end learning is...
Our top 13 coffee table music books for Bass players… Coffee table music books do more than take up space in the living room… they are...
Chuck Bailey… Almost a year after we talked at the 2020 Winter NAMM show, I am finally getting a chance to chat with Las Vegas-based bassist,...
This month I got a chance to catch up with Scott Devine… You may remember Scott from our June 2015 cover story. A lot has happened...
This month we will discuss thumb pain while playing bass and how to avoid it.
