Reader Spotlight: Clint Warren Falconer
Meet Clint Warren Falconer, a bassist hailing from South Africa who has overcome a lot in life. Clint not only makes his living playing bass, he has a great outlook on the role of the bassist. Clint is No Treble’s reader in the spotlight for the week of November 11, 2013. Bio: I was born the 19th of September 1984...
Top 10: The Most Watched Bass Videos (October 2013)
By Halloween, the #1 most watched video on No Treble for the month of October had reached close to 40,000 views. What makes that even more remarkable is the fact that the video had only been posted three days before the end of the month. The other nine had no chance for the #1 slot this time around, but on...
Giorgio Terenziani’s Bass Orchestra: Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Giorgio Terenziani knocked us out with his “bass orchestra” arrangement of The Police tune, “Everything She Does Is Magic”. Giorgio performs this using five basses: three standard and two micro basses. He says he usually plays this during clinics with a loop station, but decided to layer all the different sections together for this video. Pretty amazing.
Weekly Top Ten: The Best in Bass for the Week of November 3rd
If there’s one word that sums up this top 10 list for me this week, that word would be “legend”. Kicking off the top 10 most popular stories and videos on No Treble is Will Lee’s take on “The Magic of Jaco”. Not far behind, the legendary Jerry Scheff is our first bassist featured in our all-new “Profiles in Tone”...
Kimberly Lynn: Funk Fun
The very first video we shared by Kimberly Lynn (almost 4 years ago) was really popular, thanks to Kimberly’s great approach to solo bass. Here’s Kimberly once again, in a performance filmed just a couple of weeks ago at The Gig Spot in Gig Harbor, Washington. Even the city has a cool name! Dig this “Funk Fun”…
Adam Stevens: “the drriifft” Improvised Loop Jam
Time for some Adam Stevens goodness. This time around, Adam utilizes all five of his basses, which includes an upright, a U-bass, a Jazz, a Precision and Roscoe LG-3000. Lots of bass goodness on this one.
Reader Spotlight: Rolando “Rolo” Romero
Meet Rolando “Rolo” Romero a bassist living in Kansas and clearly loving life. A self-described “nerd”, Rolo might just have the coolest family around. Check out his story and see if you don’t start smiling before the end. Rolo is No Treble’s reader in the spotlight for the week of November 4, 2013. Bio: I am 32 year old NERD...
Hal Leonard Releases Megadeth Bass Anthology
Hal Leonard’s newest edition in their “Bass Recorded Versions” offers up David Ellefson‘s bass line transcriptions for 20 Megadeth tunes. Megadeth Bass Anthology includes transcriptions for each song in both standard notation and tab. Megadeth Bass Anthology Song List: Countdown To Extinction Dawn Patrol Five Magics Hangar 18 Head Crusher Holy Wars…The Punishment Due In My Darkest Hour My Last...
Will Lee: The Magic of Jaco
It is always interesting to hear one prolific musician speak about another prolific musician. Will Lee did just that, sharing his thoughts on Jaco Pastorius. From his home studio (dubbed “The Beatles Museum”), Will starts off by playing a fretless bass, points at it and says “Jaco invented this thing… it’s amazing.” The interview covers a lot, including Will’s first...
Weekly Top Ten: The Best in Bass for the Week of October 27th
This week’s top 10 features what is easily the most popular video on No Treble, all time. In fact, it may exceed the views on the other nine, combined. But the other nine were no slouches either, making it a record week for readership. Here are the top 10 most read stories and most watched videos on No Treble for...
Miki Santamaria: Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” Solo Bass Loop
Back in July, we featured one what turned out to be one of the most popular videos on No Treble this year: Jim Bennett’s solo bass take on Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”. Another one of our favorite bassists, Miki Santamaria took the same tune and did his own thing with it. Miki’s version layers loops using his Boss RC300 Loop...
Bass Gear Roundup: The Top Gear Stories in October
October is in the books… and those books include at least four new fuzz pedals! Add a couple of new Fodera basses, even more pedals, and some other exciting bass gear, and you have the top 10 gear stories of the month. As always, these are ranked by reader views. Thanks as always for reading, commenting and sharing. Here are...