Archive for December 2020 - Page 2

Our bass lessons and transcriptions have always been super popular with readers. Here are the top 10 most popular we published in 2020. Time to hit the shed!

We love featuring videos by our readers, especially when it is as good as this one. Check out bassist John Jowitt and his band Rain performing “Dandelion” from their new album.

Longtime collaborators George Lynch and Jeff Pilson have teamed up once again to release a covers album called “Heavy Hitters”.

Eastwood Guitars has unveiled another new project for 2021 with the Tiger Bass. Modeled after Jerry Garcia’s iconic instrument, the bass version will carry on many of the features as their guitar tribute.

When I was in high school, I wore out my copy of Steve Vai’s “Flex-Able”. One of my favorite tunes was “The Attitude Song”. Here’s a great clip of Vai performing the tune with Mike Keneally, Philip Bynoe, and Mike Mangini in ’97.

This year we saw a huge number of pedals released. Here are the top 10 reader favorite pedals we covered in 2020.

Taylor Lee has once again called upon some phenomenal bassists for a shred session for the holidays. This time he’s joined by Jon Reshard, Bubby Lewis, Cody Wright, Jay Laws, Shaun Gotti Calloway, and AJ Brown.

For many years now, we’ve had a great holiday tradition, thanks to Steve Bailey. Steve sent us this year’s Berklee Bass Department holiday video. This year’s Mashup features Steve along with Bakithi Kumalo, John Patitucci, and Victor Wooten.

Trace Elliot shocked the bass world three years ago with the introduction of the ELF ultra-compact bass amp, which dishes out 200 watts while weighing just 1.6 pounds. Now they’ve grown the ELF into a combo series, as well.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from all of us here at No Treble! Keeping us in the holiday spirit, we have the masterful Scott Devine doing a solo bass arrangement of the classic, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”.

In 2020, we featured hundreds of new albums. This list comprises the top 10 reader favorite records of the year.

We cover a lot of new bass gear each year, including the many new bass amps that hit the market. Here are the top 10 No Treble reader favorite bass amp stories for 2020.