Archive for August 2020 - Page 4

In this “Bass & Creativity” lesson, Olivier Babaz dives into the mechanics of modulation within chord changes. You’ll learn how to navigate between tonalities, building harmonic sequences borrowing chords in two different, yet related tonalities.

In this new video, Zander Zon pays tribute to composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player Ennio Morricone, who passed away in July. Check out Zander’s solo bass performance of “The Ecstasy of Gold” from “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.”

Traveling is still risky business, but Steve Bailey, Victor Wooten, and John Patitucci are taking everyone to Nashville tomorrow for a free webinar. The “Nashville Shed” will offer a roundtable with some of Music City’s hardest-working bassists.

Last year marked the first-ever bass-specific pedal from Fender, and now they’ve revealed another for later this year. The Trapper Bass Distortion is a modified version of their Trapper that features two distortion circuits.

Once in a while, Leonid Vorobyev and his band Leonid & Friends shares an unexpected video. This one was one of the biggest surprises so far. In this clip, the band takes on Deep Purple’s “Stormbringer”.

Time to clear your calendar for now, because it is time for us to celebrate a whole lot of bass goodness. Here are the top 10 reader favorite videos for the month of July.

Harry Fleishman has been building instruments for over fifty years. Although he spent time working for large companies like Fender, he’s always kept designing on his own. This week we’re taking a look at an amazing acoustic fretless bass he built.

Dirty Loops is continuing their series of “Songs for Lovers” videos with this new one, entitled “Bitten by the Kitten.” Like the previous one (“Chicken Lover”), it serves as a killer showcase of bassist Henrik Linder and drummer Aron Mellergård.

System of a Down has been in a stalemate over recording new music, but that hasn’t stopped Shavo Odadjian from creating. After announcing his new band North Kingsley earlier this year, the group has dropped their first EP.

Warwick has stepped into the world of micro amps with the Gnome series of pocket-sized bass amplifiers. The lineup includes three models – the Gnome, Gnome i, and Gnome i Pro – that step up features.

Stuart Clayton never ceases to amaze us. In this video, Stuart performs his bass arrangement of “Midnight Express” by Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt.

On August 8th, 1970, the original lineup of The Stooges played their final concert together. Now Third Man Records has released a previously-unheard soundboard recording of the event in an album called “Live At Goose Lake: August 8, 1970.”