How to Tune a Bass Guitar… Jeff Suta from Ibanez shows us how to tune a bass guitar. Check out Elixir Strings online at elixirstrings.com/products
Intervals (Part 2) – Simple & Compound Intervals, Shorthand, Steps & Skips… Music Mechanics 18 discusses how to handle problematic interval identifications, shorthand notation for interval...
The Known Space Project… The Known Space Project, by Brian Eaton, features bass guitar as the lead instrument for much of the instrumental album including the...
By Harvey Brooks… View from the Bottom: 50 Years of Bass Playing with Bob Dylan, The Doors, Miles Davis and Everybody Else HARVEY BROOKS first came to...
Congratulations to Alex D., the Winner Who Took It All! Here is the bass he designed using the BITE BASS Configurator Feeling lucky? Enter the BITE...
Brett Marquette… Portland, OR has always been a music hub here in the Northwest. Before the pandemic, there was so much music happening up here that...
Interview with Mason Pace… We recently chatted with South Florida-based singer/songwriter, Mason Pace about his new EP “King of Hearts,” which will be available across all...
Double Bass Scales… Discover Double Bass founder Geoff Chalmers has just released a great learning tool, Double Bass Scales, that at first seems applicable for upright...
Intervals (Part 1) – Number, Quality, and the Interval Formula… Music Mechanics 17 introduces the beginnings of harmony with intervals, including an interval’s number, quality, major/minor/augmented/double...
Jim Kerwin… I am always happy to have the opportunity to chat with an upright bass player. I was even more stoked to chat with Jim...
Kefas – “Lo Que Es Vivir” Bass Line… Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month we are going to cover, Kefas – “Lo...
Marylyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.: Blackbird, Lennon-McCartney Icons… Blackbird, Lennon-McCartney Icons, Featuring Derrick “Dock” Murdock, Rick Taylor, Nick Ornelas, Tim Sonnefeld on Bass. I grew...
Interview With Bassist Danny Mo Morris… Danny Mo Morris is a bass player, a professor at Berklee College of Music since 1988, and loves teaching the...
Permutations of the 43 ESSENTIAL Rhythmic Subdivisions You Need to Know… Welcome back, friends! In Music Mechanics 16 we’ll cover permutations of the 43 common subdivisions,...
Pantera “I’m Broken”… Here comes my tribute to Pantera “I’m Broken”, one of my favorite songs, with play along tabs. GEAR: ESP Guitars USA GB-4 bass...