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Get ready for around 10 minutes of musical (and bass) awesomeness. Here’s Marcus Miller and his band performing “Detroit” at Jazz in Marciac last month. The solo break that starts around the 3 minute mark is just killer.

Jimmy Haslip has authored an instructional method book for bassists, focusing on the art of improvisation and expanding creative expression in jazz. Modern Improvisation for Bass, published by Alfred Music Publishing, covers a range of topics, including broadening music vocabulary with modes, altered harmony, and chord substitutions, creating walking bass lines, using pedal tones and chordal arpeggios, and expanding soloing...

Bassist Marcelo Feldman shows incredible musicianship and technique in this all-bass version of the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There”. Clearly inspired by the Marcus Miller version, this is the way music should be.

Hal Leonard’s Bass Play-Along has reached 45 books now with the release of Slipknot: Bass Play-Along Volume 45. The 88 page book offers up the bass lines performed by the late Paul Gray. Eight Slipknot tunes are included, written in standard notation and tab. The lyrics and melody for each song is also provided. As with every book in the...

Bassist Oliver Leonidas Tsakonas shared his cover of Jeff Beck’s “Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers”. And he sent it with a warning: “Contains a bass solo.” …which is why we’re featuring it. Oliver plays both bass and guitar on the track… making it even more impressive. Have a video to share? We’d love to check it out. Email us at...

Viaceslav Svedov is back with a new all-bass cover. This time, the versatile bassist takes on Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Look Around”. Complete with the classic Viaceslav bass faces.

It has been a while since we featured a video of the bassist known as BassGirl. This young bassist just keeps getting better and better with each video too. Here’s a recent video of BassGirl performing Chick Corea’s “Spain”. Also cool: her dad is the drummer. It is so nice to see a young, up-and-coming bassist appreciating great music from...

Meet Chris Lomas, a bass player with nearly 40 years experience hailing from Stourbridge UK. Chris is an active player who currently plays an interesting mix of music, from semi-acoustic roots to power blues to a “muscular sound reminiscent of the floor filling music of New Orleans”. Chris is our player in the spotlight for the week of November 6,...

Check out this Snarky Puppy video featuring the tune “Thing of Gold”, from their groundUP release. It takes a bit for the bass to kick in, but once it does, Michael League makes it groooooooove.

We love lists. Lists of bass awesomeness are even better. Here are the top 10 most read stories and most watched videos on No Treble for the week of October 28 – November 3, 2012. Thanks for reading, sharing and commenting! 1. G&L Unveils Black Ice Collection Basses G&L has unveiled a new line of instruments labeled the “Black Ice...

Bassist and producer Bill Laswell‘s amazing career in music has spanned the spectrum. Looking at a short list of the musicians Laswell has worked with says it all: Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, Public Image Ltd, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Bootsy Collins, Motorhead, Sting, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock… It was Laswell’s work with Hancock that brought the 1980’s hit, “Rock-It” —...

The famed bass played by Krist Novoselic and smashed by Kurt Cobain in Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video is heading to Christie’s in London for an auction later this month. The 1960’s Japanese Zen-On bass was bought by Novoselic from a pawn shop, because he knew it would be destroyed in the video. The body is all that’s left....