Bonnie Whitmore… Hailing from Austin Texas, Bonnie Whitmore is a substantive creative force of nature. She sings while she plays bass and is a prolific songwriter....
A review of the Boss WAZA AIR Bass Wireless Personal Bass Amplification System… This seems like a timely moment to discuss the constraints of practicing bass...
Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month we are going to close with the fifth part on how to create a bass line...
Let’s Get Lost, A Compendium of Alternative Tunings Vol. #1, a new book by Michael Manring and David C. Gross. Recently, Tom Semioli and I interviewed...
My Friend Matt: A story about friendship, music and staying original against all odds. My Friend Matt… In the world of the music instrument-making companies, there...
Artist Update With Bassist Joshua Crumbly I had the great pleasure of interviewing Bassist Joshua Crumbly in July of 2020. Since then he has been very...
Modes Part 2 – Interval Formulas, Construction, Characteristics, Parent Scales, Minor Modes We continue with modes in Episode 27 and learn two different possible interval formulas...
Setting Up Your Bass Guitar – Nut Action Height Adjustment… John Carruthers shows us the proper way to adjust the Nut on a bass guitar. This...
Bassist Sean Fairchild… I have been meaning to chat with Sean Fairchild for about a decade now. We live in the same state but are pretty...
Setting Up Your Bass Guitar – Bridge Action Height Adjustment… John Carruthers shows us the proper way to adjust the Bridge. This video is step 2...
Omitted Chord Factors, Modes (Part 1), Modal Music, Monophony, Polyphony, Final In Episode 26 of Music Mechanics well explore how to properly notate omitted chord factors,...
Make It Funky… Make It Funky – Bass Edition is a celebratory investigation of the classic funk bass sounds and styles of the Funk Era, 1965-1980....
Photo by Drew Nesbitt Interview with Jeff Matz courtesy of Bergantino’s Lee Presgrave… Jeff Matz is proof there is still a place for nice guys in...
Accugroove El Jefe 2×12 Bass Cab Review… Back in the early 2000s, a cabinet company emerged out of the San Francisco bay area with a line...
Fourplay (30th Anniversary Edition) contemporary American smooth jazz quartet Album first released in 1991… There was no great cunning master plan that brought noted jazz instrumentalists...