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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”
Learn To Play: Thomas Dolby’s Keyboard Bass on “Hyperactive!” : 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
Envelope Filter Funk : EVER SINCE BOOTSY COLLINS DID INDEED MAKE OUR FUNK THE P-Funk, bass players have gone ga-ga for envelope filters, those autoquackers beneath a great deal of uncut funk. While most of us know how they
Ultra-Dextrous: Inside The Restless Mind Of Trey Gunn : AS ENVELOPE-PUSHING BASSISTS GO, some have developed unique voices on the instrument; some have redefined the bass through their playing; and some have even pushed the bass into new stages of
Reader's Tip: April 2009 : FROM FUNKMASTERRON We all want to be better bass players, but most of us have limited time to sit down and practice. I have found the following tip to be very useful in getting the most out of my
Big Band Bass : YOU’VE GOT IT GOOD, BECAUSE EVERYONE needs a bass player. With the high ratio of horn players to bass players, and horn players running around starting bands, composing tunes, and writing
Odd Meters Demystified: Use Subdivisions to Get Hip : SO-CALLED “ODD” METERS ARE SCARY TERRAIN for many musicians. Defined generally as time signatures that fall outside the common 2 4, 3 4, and 4 4 meters, the relative infrequency of their appearance
Is This Love : ASTON “FAMILY MAN” BARRETT’S 40-YEAR body of work is a living textbook on the theory and practice of reggae bass. With Bob Marley & the Wailers, each of Family Man’s parts seemed to feature its
Reader's Tip: March 2009 : FROM CHARLIEBASS9Create a first aid kit for your bass. This would include at least two of everything that you might need, like: screwdrivers, Allen wrenches, superglue, sticky tape, soldering iron,
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