Double the fun! Triple the pleasure! We’re always tempted to go for more—the double date, the triple-fudge sundae after the double cheeseburger, three rides for the price of two on the Intergalactic G-Force Roller Coaster—but usually ...

It still seems like yesterday. Fall 1989, Berklee College Of Music, Bass Lab. A group lesson with seven or eight bassists sitting in a circle. Most of us (myself included) had never really played jazz before—we didn’t know how to walk, ...

The indelible image of legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is him standing at the front of the stage, growling into the microphone, and doing things to the guitar no one will ever completely duplicate as he worked himself into a ...

The first time the modes were presented to me, the teacher might as well have been speaking an ancient, long-forgotten language. I continued to struggle with the concept until a light suddenly went on in my mind. I suspect your experience ...

BASSISTS IN THE EARLY ’80S WERE QUICK TO EMBRACE BIG HAIR, BI- AND tri-amped rack systems, and even programmed drums, but when keyboard bass began to replace real bass, it understandably caused anger and concern among many. Gradually, ...