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.
Lindsay Manfredi… It is always impressive to discover all of the other talents that bass players have that you might not have known. Lindsay Manfredi plays...
The Nature of Sound, part 3 in this music theory series. Welcome to MM3! In this episode, we discuss pitched and pitchless instruments, inharmonic partials, tone/timbre,...
Son of a Milkman: My Crazy Life with Tesla… Tesla bassist Brian Wheat lifts the lid on living the rock ’n’ roll life while struggling with...
Hadrien Féraud, Linley Marthe, Michel Alibo, Étienne Mbappé featured on drummer Stéphane Edouard’s “Pondicergy Airlines”… This album will not disappoint! Pondicergy Airlines is the fruit of...
