18/05/2022
The Secret Sauce For Amplifying Your Audience: When I was 16 all I wanted in the world was to be Jaco Pastorius. I bought ...
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The last couple of Deep Thinking columns that featured one of Jaco Pastorius’ best pieces (IMHO) have maybe made the learning ...
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Lately it seems, the whole world is abuzz talking about NFTs and how they are going to change the world for artists across ...
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Many guitar players tend to overlook simple licks or riffs that come their way, not knowing that there is a lot of musical ...
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Admittedly it's been a while now, but in the last NZM issue we tackled one of Jaco Pastorius’ compositions for Weather ...
READ MORE >14/07/2021
This issue’s piece is a bit of a tough hombre. (See that, I used Spanish, not bad for a bassist!) I have transcribed one ...
READ MORE >10/06/2021
There are a number of reasons why you might want to make some of your new music discretely available online – peer feedback, ...
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Over the years my Building Blocks contributions to New Zealand Musician have focused mainly on sharing band management tips ...
READ MORE >16/02/2021
As we’ve spent the last few issues doing some tricky stuff more suited to solo bass performances, I thought that this issue’s ...
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