bass Articles
Ask Damian Erskine: Practicing and repetition
Q: How many hours a day do you practice? Do you have any practice tips?
A: Admittedly, I don’t practice as much as I’d like these days. I’m married, with dogs that need walking and a mortgage and am very busy playing bass for many different people (which requires a lot of shedding of it’s own [...]
NAMM Watch: the Ibanez 30th Anniversary Musician Bass
The Ibanez Musician Bass series debuted 30 years ago this year, and Ibanez is celebrating with an extremely limited special anniversary edition, the MC30TH.
Ibanez shares some background on the bass in a recent release:
“While the Musician wasn’t the first bass to feature active electronics, it was the first with that technology that most [...]
Gear Watch: Epifani PS1000 and PS400
Epifani has released new additions to their performance series amplifiers, the PS1000 and PS400. It will be available for shipping on July 29th 2009. Epifani started as a creator of custom bass cabinets. It was not long before they moved into amplifier production and were pioneers in digital amps, working on them as early as [...]
NAMM Watch: Fender’s product highlights
Fender Musical Instruments is presenting a wide range of basses and bass gear at the Summer NAMM show.
Basses
Geddy Lee Jazz Bass
Standard Jazz Bass V
Bass Accessories
Sub-Lime Bass Fuzz Pedal
Bass Amps
115 Pro Cabinet
Bassman TV Ten
Bassman TV Twelve
Bassman TV 15
Bassman TV Duo Ten
For more information, visit Fender.com.
Ask Damian Erskine: Harmony and Composing
Q: How do you approach writing a harmony once a melody has been composed? And how do you make sure the harmonic progression works in the way you like it? I assume it’s not just trial and error!
A: Admittedly, I’m a newbie when it comes to real composition and yes, it had largely been trial [...]
Monkey Island Main Theme for bass and ukulele
Our friend Sebastiano, aka monsterbazz, has just posted another multi-track video performance of Michael Land’s The Secret of Monkey Island.
Sebastiano is playing bass and ukulele on the video. For the lead, he runs his bass through an effect to take the bass an octave higher. He shares: “This is simply a jam and [...]
