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Weekly Top Ten: The Best in Bass for the Week of October 6th
Weekly Top 10

Weekly Top Ten: The Best in Bass for the Week of October 6th

Here’s the best of the best in the land of the low end… the most viewed stories, how-to’s and videos on No Treble for the week of October 6-12, 2013. Thanks for reading, commenting and sharing! 1. Guitar Bank: Fender Jazz Bass Shootout There’s always been debate about the differences in quality between Fender basses made in different factories. Guitar...

Cody Wright: “Blackbird” Solo Bass Arrangement
Bass Videos

Cody Wright: “Blackbird” Solo Bass Arrangement

“Blackbird” by The Beatles may be one of the most covered songs ever written, but Cody Wright of the Jonathan Scales Fourchestra puts an awesome spin on it with his unique bass arrangement. Switching between tapping, fingerstyle and picking, Wright’s mesmerizing version was captured during his performance at the Asheville Music Hall in Asheville, North Carolina on September 26, 2013....

Randy Brecker Releases “Brecker Brothers Band Reunion” with Will Lee and Chris Minh Doky
New Albums

Randy Brecker Releases “Brecker Brothers Band Reunion” with Will Lee and Chris Minh Doky

The surge of jazz fusion in the ’70s produced some incredible music, especially the work of the virtuosic Brecker Brothers. Led by trumpeter Randy Brecker and saxophonist Michael Brecker, their self-titled debut blew listeners away with an electric sound that melded genres and spawned the classic track “Some Skunk Funk.” “When the band started back in the day, the original...

Fender Introduces Vintage Hot Rod ’60s Precision and ’70s Jazz Basses
Basses

Fender Introduces Vintage Hot Rod ’60s Precision and ’70s Jazz Basses

Fender has rolled out two new basses as part of their Vintage Hot Rod series, an American-made lineup that the company describes as incorporating the best of old and new features. The Fender Vintage Hot Rod ’60s Precision Bass and ’70s Jazz Bass riff on classic designs while adding new features like a 7.25″-12″ compound-radius fingerboards, new neck profiles, and...

Miki Santamaria: “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” for Solo Bass
Bass Videos

Miki Santamaria: “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” for Solo Bass

I’ve been super impressed with Miki Santamaria since the first video we shared by him. It goes beyond his bass playing, which is remarkable enough. It is his musicianship that impresses me even more. Here’s Miki performing a solo bass arrangement of “Somewhere Over the Rainbox”, which he says is “One of the prettiest melodies ever!” Now it is one...

Eventide Introduces PowerFactor 2
Accessories & Strings

Eventide Introduces PowerFactor 2

Eventide and Danish company Cioks have teamed up to release the PowerFactor 2, a power supply that can run up to four Eventide pedals as well as up to four other pedals. It has eight regulated, isolated DC outlets – four rated at 400mA, two rated at 200mA, and two rated at 100mA – all of which are protected from...

Learning New Tunes: Go Beyond the Bass
I Wish I Knew That

Learning New Tunes: Go Beyond the Bass

Let’s face it, we’re not all singers. Some of us opted to join band in school instead of choir, and in doing so, we missed out on the vocal warm-ups and breathing lessons. We never took the bull by the horns and sang lead, be it on stage or around a campfire, and maybe a few of us have been...

Lynn Seaton and Christian McBride: “Blues in the Closet”
Bass Videos

Lynn Seaton and Christian McBride: “Blues in the Closet”

It’s always a blast to see musical masters having fun jamming on a tune. Donovan Stokes sent me this video of Lynn Seaton and Christian McBride playing on the Oscar Pettiford song “Blues in the Closet” at the University of North Texas, where Seaton teaches Jazz Studies. The two bassists trade some of the tastiest blues licks you’ll ever hear...

Korn Releases “The Paradigm Shift”
New Albums

Korn Releases “The Paradigm Shift”

Korn has released The Paradigm Shift, the band’s eleventh studio album and the first to feature guitarist Brian “Head” Welch since 2003. Blending elements of their old and new styles, bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu says the mix is the best of both worlds. “The new record is everything we’ve wanted to be,” Fieldy shared. “Everybody is doing what they want...

SolidGoldFX Announces SuperDrive Beta Pedal
Pedals & Effects

SolidGoldFX Announces SuperDrive Beta Pedal

SolidGoldFX has introduced their first bass-specific effects pedal, the SuperDrive Beta. Designed with an EQ tailored for bass, the pedal offers tones from old school thump, to an “Ampeg inspired” drive. The SuperDrive Beta is built with a JFET preamp with subtle germanium clipping to double as an always-on tone shaper or a cutting fuzz. Controls include Gain, Tone, and...

Bass of the Week: Aquilina Basses DB
Bass of the Week

Bass of the Week: Aquilina Basses DB

Sébastien Aquilina of Aquilina Basses is making some beautiful instruments. Case in point: the Aquilina DB, a suave singlecut design with French aesthetic. The neck-through bass is built around a sycamore and ash neck with carbon reinforcements, topped with a sycamore fingerboard. The body wings are mahogany with a stunning flamed sycamore that continues the theme. It’s fitted with a...

Alberto Rigoni: Dream Theater’s “Erotomania” Play-Along
Bass Videos

Alberto Rigoni: Dream Theater’s “Erotomania” Play-Along

From the tricky fingerings to the melodic phrasing, Alberto Rigoni absolutely nails John Myung’s part on the Dream Theater song “Erotomania” in this play-along. Dig that tone, too!