I have always loved the music of Thelonious Monk and have marveled at the outward “simplicity” of his tunes and the inward difficulty in their seemingly...
It’s a funny contradiction to say so, but when you work to put dead notes into your bass lines you can add quite a bit of...
Sometimes, just before sleep, you enter this nether world where all of a sudden the germ of an idea takes shape. A couple of days ago,...
Thirteenth Arpeggios… Learning about Thirteenth Arpeggios… In order to apply the musical concepts that our teachers present to us, I find it necessary to work on...
The chromatic scale is a fun scale to learn but it is easy to play and understand. It is composed of 13 that are all a...
Welcome to 123 Bass 2020, a lesson on finishing what you started. Four years ago, I released my first solo 12-string bass video called 123 Bass,...
This month we will cover how to throw down a walking bass line… The Walking Bass Line… With all of the mania for chops, chops, and...
Groove Deconstruction… Underneath any knuckle-busting groove is a pulse that provides a solid foundation for everything that happens on top of it. But what do you...
This Month’s Bass Lesson: The Double Chromatic Approach In my previous article entitled “Guide Tones” we learned how to create lines using guide tones that resolve...
Remember that great bass line you keep coming back to year after year and yet it’s still not where you want it to be? Your fingers...
Hey guys! How’s it going? This month I’d like to share this awesome 16th groove etude, based on the track by the great Stevie Wonder, as...
Being bass players, we are often renegades of a sort. Many of us learn to play when a friend or a cousin or uncle puts a...
Sneak Peak for Bass Musician Readers – How to Go From Amateur to Pro Bass Player – 3 Great Tips! Yonit was recently featured in Bass...
In this video I want to share with you a bass-duo based in “La Corralera”, a Milonga (An argentinian kind of Tango) written by Anselmo Aieta...
A few of you bass fanatics out there might be old enough to remember the infamous words “fuzzy math”. That’s all fine for the math wizards...
