Meet Ray Riendeau – As a teacher for many years a common question I get from many students is about how and what to practice. Sometimes...
by David Dyson – At some point, every musician has an idea or picture of how they want their future to look and how they envision...
Meet Oteil Burbridge – I’ve come to a new place in my outlook towards work that I wish I had committed to long ago. It’s all...
Meet Igor Saavedra – What is that on the sky…It’s a bird…it’s a plane…no it’s SUPERBASS. An ERB or Extended Range Bass is an important member...
Meet Bill Harrison – As promised last issue, let’s start using backing tracks to work with the most common chord progression in jazz, the ii/V. Please...
Meet Jaime David Vazquez – Are you tired of playing the same bass patterns? Would you like to add some hot stuff to your grooves? Let’s...
Meet Adam Nitti – Welcome back, bass-folk! My last 2 articles dealt with basic tapping exercises designed to introduce you to the techniques used, as well...
Meet Ray Riendeau – Hi everyone! In this article I’d like to discuss the importance of learning and transcribing things that you want to learn. It...
Meet Andrea Fascetti Hi my friends!!! How are you? I hope that you have studied hard since the last set of exercises, because in this lesson...
Meet Bill Harrison – Some musical skills are best learned alone – technique, scales and arpeggios, the layout of your fingerboard and so on. Bass Musician...
Meet Bill “WBGO” Lanphier – Flummoxed. That’s a good way to describe someone trying to play Bulgarian meters for the first time. Actually, even guys familiar...
Meet Jaime David Vazquez – Welcome to my bass column! Hope you enjoy and learn a lot about bass playing! This time we’ll work on bass...
Continuing with the theme from the last article, this time we’ll talk about left-hand technique, again assuming the player is right-handed. Here are some positioning examples:...
by Phil Baker – Things happen when cultures collide–some good, some bad, but always interesting. The Crusades, when medieval Europe clashed with the Muslim world, led...
Guess what is the first thing I have my students do? Tune up? Stop chewing gum? No! Play the piano! There is no better way to...