Pesky Mordents for Finger Strength (Talking Tech)
I love borrowing from classical music for the electric bass – especially in the technique department! Classical music looks at hundreds of years of teaching
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
“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
Ah, sus chords! Sus means suspended – what we are suspending here is the third of the chord, so a sus2 or sus4 chord is
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?
Solo Bass Playing? To some it is a sacrilege – using bass outside of the band context, using bass for anything but grooving in a
Learn in Your Sleep or: Put Your Bass Under Your Pillow for Maximum Practice Effect. Wait, what? In this article I talk about the magic
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