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 | Florida Flashback Two New Jaco Early Years Discs : WHEN 17-YEAR-OLD JACO PASTORIUS
laid eyes on his buddy Bob Bobbing’s Sony
reel-to-reel tape recorder, he saw musical
possibilities with unlimited potential. Fortunately
for us, Bobbing had | | | Technique Tip Tasty Chords : UNLESS YOU’RE A SOLO BASSIST, YOU probably spend most of your time playing single-note lines. Sure, there’s the occasional delicious double-stop, but the more dense chordal content is generally left | | | Technique Tip : Anchors Away : Teaching beginners always forces me to confront my so-called comfort zone. It happens
to all of us: Once we feel like we’re beyond beginner status, we tend to take the
fundamental stuff for | | | “Ready” Freddie Washington : Getting His Groove On With Steely Dan : CATCHING UP WITH STEELY DAN’S
13-piece juggernaut at New York’s Beacon
Theater in August meant getting a chance
to see one of the preeminent rhythm sections
out on tour this year. Los Angeles | | | Technique Tip Fingertip Talk : IT WOULD SEEM THAT WITH JUST FIVE fingers and 4-6 strings (oh, alright, sometimes more), there’d be a relatively short list of potential right-hand techniques. But if there’s one thing my incessant | | | Oscar Pettiford’s Altered States : “THE BASS IS ONE OF THE MOST important, if not the most important, instruments in any orchestra,” said Oscar Pettiford in a 1957 interview with Nat Hentoff. “You don’t need piano or drums. The bass | | | Tom Kennedy Masterclass, Neck Spans & Note Slurs : TOM KENNEDY WANTS TO MAKE
you feel uncomfortable. But don’t worry,
it’s all in the name of better bass playing.
Since moving back to New York City
in 2007, the St. Louis-native has been
one of | | | Learn To Play: “I Break Out … In A Cold Sweat … Hah!” : SOMETIMES I SIT AT THE COMPUTER
and cut and paste funk loops into my
sequencer program. It’s easy—I just pick
something from my library and plug it in.
The problem is, the loops that are | | | Shifting On The Fly : If you need to change positions on the neck and you want it to sound seamlessly smooth, there’s no reason you can’t shift while you’re on a note. | | | What The Funk? : HIP-HOP, R&B, URBAN CONTEMPORARY,
rap, drum-n-bass, nu-jazz—call it what you
want, but it’s got to be funky. The term
“funk” has become a blanket description
of anything with a booty-moving | | | Technique Tip: New Tricks : GETTING BETTER AT BASS INVOLVES DIGESTING HUGE AMOUNTS OF new information, but it’s just as important to unlearn the bad stuff. Most of us picked up the bass without much initial guidance, and even | | | Producer-Bassist Tommy Sims Getting A Master’s From Jamerson U. On Michael McDonald’s “All I Need” : IT’S MASTERCLASS, EVERYONE, WHICH means a detailed dissection of a bass line played by a high-level pro, along with insight from the player who gave us this amazing thing to learn from. But this | | | Learn To Play “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” Overdue Props For Scott Edwards : WHEN IT COMES TO THE UPPER RUNGS ON THE LADDER of unsung bassists, it would be difficult to place much higher than Scott Edwards. Between 1972 and 1982, Edwards appeared on 12 Billboard #1 Hits as a | | | Learn To Play: Cliff Burton’s Fingers Power The Metallica Classic “Battery” : IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT METALLICA’S original bassist, Cliff Burton, would be 47 today had he not died at just over half that age in a tour-bus accident in September 1986. Fortunately we’ll always | | | Phil Chen Masterclass : THE FREEWHEELING INTERNATIONAL journey of Phil Chen began in 1964 when he took a banana boat from his Kingston, Jamaica, birthplace to London to promote the earliest forms of what we now call “ska” | | | More |
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