The Blues & Beyond Quartet features Yannick Robert on guitar, Sebastien Charlier on harmonica, Yoann Schmidt on drums, and Dominique DiPiazza on bass. This is a...
Basso Ridiculoso announces today the debut e-pub “The Book of Triads” is available to bass players around the world for immediate download on either IOS devices...
Check out the Hartke Bass Lounge Tour Videos featuring Larry Hatke…
The first few bars of The Life Electric by P.W. Farrell (aka Patrick Farrell) immediately got my attention. This up-and-coming bassist from Australia is a talent...
AMPEG SVT 7PRO Review submission by BMM Reader Rod Lowe 1000w @ 4 ohms 600 @ 8ohms approx.15lbs Class D with tube pre amp. This is...
The song/lesson for this month is the standard Body and Soul (Cuerpo y Alma) – music by Johnny Green. It’s inspiration is taken from Esperanza Spalding’s...
The last week of working in the theatre has been interesting. During the “warm up” time before the show, the college students in the pit have...
I’ve addressed this issue briefly in couple old articles. But I think it deserves going a little further with the analysis. If I would have to...
Welcome to the next article in my “Worship Bassist’s Toolkit” series. In this series, we are thinking about tools that worship bassists must have available, maintained,...
Hi guys…For the past six lessons we have been talking about the altered tuning of C-G-D-A. and the varous chord voicings and chord scales that go...
Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! For this month, we will work with the “odd time” Bossa Nova. We all know that one of...
HI MY DEAR “BASS” FRIENDS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT THE EAR TRAINING LESSONS. LAST LESSON, WE TALKED ABOUT TRANSCRIPTIONS. I KNOW...
Now that you can accent any point in the measure (at least if you did the exercises from last month you can) we can move on...
So last time we talked about super imposing pentatonic scales over our chord changes. This time we’re going to stick with the same subject matter only...
After spending some time working my plucking hand with Austrian born Bernhard Lackner’s book, I was eager to hear Bernard perform on his new CD...