Big Bertha AKA “the upright” is beautiful. And if you have an upright in your home (and/or on the road) make sure you treat her
At a recent bass camp I co-taught at, a student shared her frustration with me. She had been playing for a while but felt that
“May I have a large container of coffee?” This handy mnemonic never made it to my German speaking classroom back in high school, but it
It all started with marveling about the note H in the German musical alphabet and me being on the phone trying to spell something akin
The International Musical Alphabet… Are you from a country other than the US, where quavers make you quiver (rather than eighth notes), where Do means
Play in a band and asked to contribute a great bass line to a song? Happy jamming and want to take it a step further?
A Tough Place to be It can strike without warning or creep up slowly over time- this feeling of being in a lull with our
How difficult is it to convert from fretted to fretless bass playing? While I don’t recommend to convert fully – both fretless and fretted have
Solo Bass Playing? To some it is a sacrilege – using bass outside of the band context, using bass for anything but grooving in a
The Horror of Errors In this article I answer a question on quora about errors. Errors are a difficult topic for me personally because I
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