Thunderstruck Technique! Sure, learning songs is very important; at the same time, I am a big proponent of technique drills on the bass. But why
What is a Transposing Instrument? Transposing means porting a piece of music into a different key or range. Some instruments are “transposing instruments” which means
Why do you place so much emphasis on learning the intervals, Ari? Hi Ari, I have your book and you spend quite a bit of
Excellent question – 21 Guns by Green Day – is it in D minor or F major? And how to tell? After all, both scales
I love borrowing from classical music for the electric bass – especially in the technique department! Classical music looks at hundreds of years of teaching
My last post on fifths (when not to play the perfect fifths) and the one before on the forgotten fifth are hopefully still fresh in your memory
The Perfect Fifth is always safe to use, right? Yes. Except when it isn’t! Related, in case you missed it: The Fifth – Why it
Fingering a Fifth You probably know it as a “1 by 2”: one string up, two frets over, like this (the numbers are fingering options
Root – Five – Root – Five… it is a kind of signature bass line – and it works! In country, bluegrass, folk music, as
Ah, sus chords! Sus means suspended – what we are suspending here is the third of the chord, so a sus2 or sus4 chord is