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Blues You Can Use: Chuck Rainey's Rock Steady Blues
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IN THE PANTHEON OF GREAT BASS PLAYERS, CHUCK RAINEY
stands as a monument to groove and inventiveness. Arriving in New York City
in 1962, the Ohio native soon joined up with legendary R&B
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Basser Instincts: Time & Visualization
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SPRING IS UPON US! AND SO WERE THESE
two musical queries sent to me:
Omar wrote, “When I play with my drummer, sometimes
we don’t groove the same, and our time is not together.
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John Goldsby's Jazz Concepts: Hoe Down! No, The Jazzy Kind
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MODERN, BLUESY, MAJOR-, AND MINOR-ISH
all at once: I heard the sound when I was listening to Bob
Mintzer’s “Aha” [For the Moment, MCG Jazz, 2012], with the fabulous
rhythm section of Lincoln
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Lessons from Bass Player Live! - Hadrien Feraud
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CALL IT CONTINUING PROOF THAT MUSIC IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. PARISborn
Hadrien Feraud, a fixture at all five Los Angeles editions of Bass Player LIVE!, may struggle
somewhat with his English, but
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John Goldsby's Jazz Concepts: Eddie Safranski
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Jazz Famous! No. 1 In The Polls!
WHO’S THE MOST FAMOUS BASS PLAYER OF ALL TIME?
Got your answer? Here’s your challenge: Ask every non-musician you run into if they’ve
heard of your famous bass
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Blues You Can Use: Jerry Jemmott, the Groovemaster
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LAST MONTH I HAD THE HONOR AND PLEASURE
of reconnecting with one of my musical heroes: Jerry Jemmott,
the Groovemaster. Born in 1946 in New York City,
Jemmott was gigging on upright bass by age
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Billy Sheehan's Full-Contact Bass, part 2
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Billy Sheehan's Full-Contact Bass, from the Spring 1990 Premier issue of Bass Player.
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Billy Sheehan's Full-Contact Bass, Spring 1990
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Marketing In The Social Media Age With Janek Gwizdala, Juan Alderete & Damian Erskine
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From left: Gwizdala, Alderete, and Erskine
“IT’S AWESOME TO BE SITTING HERE AND TO NOT HAVE a bass in my hand,” says Janek Gwizdala to kick off a roundtable discussion with bass
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John Taylor's Pleasure Groove
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“THE LAST TIME I WAS ON THIS STAGE IN THIS ROOM, I was helping out my stepson, Travis,” says John Taylor, settling in for his Bass Player LIVE! clinic at S.I.R. Los Angeles. “He had formed a band
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Jerry Watts with the John Daversa Progressive Big Band
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CALL IT A FIRST IN FIVE YEARS OF BASS PLAYER LIVE! clinics in Los Angeles: cramming the 18-piece John Daversa Progressive Big Band on the stage of Room B for an hour-plus of cutting-edge chamber jazz
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John Goldsby's Jazz Concepts: State of the Bass - Jimmie Blanton, Part 2
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CHRISTIAN McBRIDE, VICTOR WOOTEN, MARCUS Miller, Victor Bailey, Jeff Berlin, Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, James Jamerson, Scott LaFaro, Red Mitchell, Israel Crosby,
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Blues You Can Use: Jack Meyers - Outside the box
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I RECENTLY RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM A READER, John Schroder, hipping me to a blues bassist named Jack Meyers. While I had heard his playing on Junior Wells/Buddy Guy recordings from the 1960s, true to
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Basser Instincts: Language Learning
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! TWO LETTERS caught my eye as the calendar advanced to 2013.
Jon wrote, “I would like to discuss groove. In his video Groove Workshop [Hudson Music, 2008], Victor Wooten
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Blues You Can Use: Rhythmic Fun with the Shuffle
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THIS MONTH, I’M GOING TO PRESENT SOMETHING very different. The examples shown here are not something I recommend you try to play on a blues gig—unless you want to get fired real quick! Instead, look
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