Building the ultimate musical instrument would be a noble goal for any inspired craftsman. Such an instrument would need to have multiple sonic capabilities and an...
Used for educational reasons This is my bass line transcriptions from the musical RENT (Which I was assistant director for in Hollywood). Rent is a musical with...
Jaco Pastorius met Joni Mitchell in 1976. Joni has said in interviews that at that time, around 1975-76 that she wanted a different kind of bass...
Welcome back to my lessons on world domination. This month we’re going to look into open chord triads, as opposed to last month were we looked...
The Funky Bass Book… Do you remember when one of the major television networks was hyping the re-runs they were showing with a, “If you haven’t...
Plucking Hand Workout For Electric Bass by Bernard Lackner… Have you ever wanted to play better? Have you identified the problem to be your plucking hand?...
“No Brainer Play Bass” is an entry-level instructional aid just loaded with good information. (I am not too flattered by the suggestion that you don’t need...
Meet Igor Saavedra – The word “Professional” is like a rubber band that can be expanded everywhere on its meaning depending on what somebody would like...
On a cold, rainy morning in the great northwest, (27 days raining and counting) the sound of Reggae carries my mind to warmer, sunnier places that...
Meet Carl Dawkins – So this is going to be the last article for a while in this series of tips for the up and coming...
Review by Jake Kot – Pianist Hiromi’s latest recording Voice, is a trio effort featuring Anthony Jackson on bass and Simon Phillips on drums backing some...
Review by Jak Kot – Bassist and composer Bryan Beller has just released Wednesday Night Live, a recording of Beller’s band at the Baked Potato in...
Meet Steve Gregory – The other day, I heard a recording of an Elvis performance that went horribly, horribly wrong. The band went one direction, “the...
Meet Andrea Fascetti – HI MY FRIENDS, IT’S GREAT TO BE HERE AGAIN AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT MY LESSONS. REMEMBER THAT...
Meet Bill Harrison – Last time (http://tinyurl.com/minorkeymystery) we had a quiet little chat about using the harmonic minor scale as our “go to” choice for V...