Bass hero Victor Wooten has a new record out called Palmystery [Heads Up], and yes, it’s mind-blowingly excellent from both a bass-virtuosity and compositional standpoint. Stalwart fans of Wooten will be both indulged and challenged ...
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March 2008 Homework AssignmentI know. You thought your homework days were long behind you. Sorry. Turns out, annoying though it was, homework had a point—that whole learning thing. And Bass Player is all about making you a better player, so think of this assignment ...
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Victor Wooten's Latest Lesson: 'Palmystery', Track-By-Track
At Only 24, Jazz Phenom Esperanza Spalding Has The Ultimate ‘X-Factor’
The buzz on Esperanza Spalding has been building since the day she arrived at Berklee College of Music with a full scholarship at age 17, straight from the Pacific Northwest. One moment she was a newbie, motivated to excel but frustrated ...
- 5 Questions With: Chris Tarry
- Garry Tallent: Four Decades Of Bass For The Boss
- Ask BP May 2008
- Renaud Garcia-Fons: France's Otherworldly Bass Transformer
- Cleve Eaton
- Marcus Miller Reaches Wider Than Ever With 'Marcus'
- Anthem Of The Tone: Phil Lesh & The Modern Electric Bass
- Lesh Is More! Portrait Of An American Beauty
- Marc Johnson’s Homage to Bill Evans & Scott La Faro
- Web Exclusive Peek: The First Annual Bass Player Readers’ Choice Awards
- Jaco’s 1962 Fender Jazz Bass “Bass of Doom” Found!
- Randy Jackson!
- Bass Player Magazine Mourns Passing Of Cachao
- Bass Player Artist Master Class Webcast: Michael Manring: Full Range Bass - Sponsored by SWR
- Steve Bailey
- Miroslav Vitous
- Cachao!
- Pantera’s Rex Brown Digs In With Down
- Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones
- Robert “Bubby” Lewis
- Erick “Jesus” Coomes
- Eric Avery
- Ask BP April 2008
- 5 Questions With Damian Erskine
- Foo Fighters’ Nate Mendel
- Ben Allison & Man Size Safe
- Graham Maby with Joe Jackson
- Dillinger Escape Plan’s Liam Wilson
- Robert Plant/Alison Krauss' Dennis Crouch
- Ask BP March 2008
- Gerald Veasley
- 5 Questions With Rich Brown
- Mute Math's Roy Mitchell-Cardenas
- Bass Player Live! Highlights From the Annual Fall Call to Bassists Far and Wide
- dUg Pinnick
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Gear
Retro Rama: 1964 Höfner 500/2 “Club Bass”
In 1956, Walter Höfner (whose father, Karl, founded Höfner in 1887) developed a violin-shaped, semi-acoustic electric bass guitar. The result was the Höfner 500/1, which rocketed to world renown in the ’60s due to its use by a certain ...
- Retro Rama: 1968 Baldwin/Burns 704
- Retro-Rama: 1968 Hagstrom H8 8-string
- Jaco’s 1962 Fender Jazz Bass “Bass of Doom” Found!
- Retro-Rama: A 1983 G&L L-2000
- Retro-Rama: 1974 Gibson Grabber
- Retro-Rama: 1980 Music Man Cutlass I
- 1967 Wandre Etrurian “Black Tulip”
- 1959 Rickenbacker 4000
- 1969 Gibson EB-3
- New Stuff From NAMM Part 1
- DNA Analogic BD-1 Bass Dragger
- Cause & Effect
- Happy Feet
- Frantone Electronics Bassweet
- Fulltone Bass-Drive Mosfet
- Gallien-Krueger Diesel Dawg
- HAO RR-1 Rust Ride Bass Driver
- Homebrew Electronics Hematoma
- Ibanez Phat-Hed PD7
WoodShed
Animal Liberation Orchestra's Steve Adams
“ALO is a lifestyle,” says Steve Adams. “We first played together back in junior high. We went to the same college to study and play music, and now we tour the world together.” Animal Liberation Orchestra is atop a short list of younger ...
- Improv Intensive: Ric Fierabracci
- Colin Edwin On Riding A Sonic Storm
- June 2008 Homework
- June 2008 Reader's Tip
- Against Me!'s Andrew Seward
- Focus Forms, Part 4: Incorporating Shifts
- Megadeth's James Lomenzo
- The Easy Sell: Using Melodic Cells To Outline Common Chords
- May 2008 Homework Assignment
- Smashing Pumpkins' Ginger Reyes
- Bolero
- Bad Brains' Darryl Jenifer
- Dawg Pounds
- Viktor Krauss
- April 2008 Reader's Tip
- Focus Forms, Part 3: Incorporating Shifts
- The Cat Empire's Ryan Monro
- April Homework: Transcribe!
- Fishbone's Norwood Fisher
- Forget Those Scales Part 2
- March 2008 Homework Assignment
- Cachao’s Tumbaos
- Alternate Fingering & String Crossing, Part 2
- Forget Those Scales Part 1
- February 2008 Homework Assignment
- Let It Flow, Let It Flow, Let It Flow
- January Homework Assignment: Good Tone is in Your Hands
- Cha-Cha-Cha!
- The Meter Man Rides
- Gogol Bordello's Tommy Gobena
- Burning Brides' Melanie Coats
- Kings of Leon's Jared Followill
- Eric Judy
- Dr. Das
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Vegas - May 16 & 17
Thu, 08 May 2008 15:46:26 EDTNUTT:
Are any Lowdowners in the Las Vegas area going to be playing on May 16th or 17th? I'm meeting ... -
directions required from a new bass player
Thu, 08 May 2008 14:38:04 EDTRocky MacDougall:
I have a Zoom B2. What does it sound like? I have no idea, I don't have a clue on how to use it. ... -
I am getting worse, not better....
Thu, 08 May 2008 11:05:12 EDTDavo-London:
Many moons ago in a recording studio, I did what you did. Ouch. Timing? Where was it? Practi ... -
Carbon Fiber Double Bass
Thu, 08 May 2008 10:01:54 EDTjeremy c:
They've been advertising those instruments in the Musician's Union magazine for a while. They ... -
Next Project Bass
Thu, 08 May 2008 09:12:25 EDTjeremy c:
It's hard to actually describe a pickup. I've got Lindy Fralin pickups in my Mike Lull M4V bass ... -
What song are you learning/playing right now?
Wed, 07 May 2008 20:29:13 EDTtnb:
The grooves aren't the problem. The song titles are are the prob ... -
Kissing Frogs
Wed, 07 May 2008 18:30:58 EDTDavo-London:
LoL "Can't swing an 8th note the same way twice. Kick drum has no relation to the beat, but i ... -
New Forge Bass System
Wed, 07 May 2008 17:31:12 EDTTom Capasso:
The Forge Bass System isn't the first to do this. I've played the Bergantino IP series - they ...
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