Deep Thinking: Using The Pentatonic Scales
The last couple of Deep Thinking columns that featured one of Jaco Pastorius’ best pieces (IMHO) have maybe made the learning too difficult for bassists, so in ...MORE
Deep Thinking: Using The Pentatonic Scales
The last couple of Deep Thinking columns that featured one of Jaco Pastorius’ best pieces (IMHO) have maybe made the learning too difficult for bassists, so in ...MORE
02/02/2022
Deep Thinking: Weather Report’s Teen Town (Part 2)
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
Deep Thinking: Heavy Weather Hombre
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 >16/02/2021
Deep Thinking: Black And White Boy… On Bass
As we’ve spent the last few issues doing some tricky stuff more suited to solo bass performances, I thought that this issue’s ...
READ MORE >09/10/2020
Deep Thinking: Alex And His Ragtime Bass
Hi everyone, for this lesson, I have taken the liberty of using a piece that I wrote as a study for my UK students before ...
READ MORE >15/09/2020
Deep Thinking: Cross Hand Exercises
Hi everyone! Many movies have a prequel delivered after the main feature has been released, but this article is the other ...
READ MORE >17/01/2020
Deep Thinking: Carol Kaye Of The Wrecking Crew
In this Deep Thinking session, we are going to look at a couple of tracks recorded by legendary US session bassist, Carol ...
READ MORE >02/08/2019
Deep Thinking: Weather Report’s Birdland
For this issue, I have transcribed the opening bass part on the seminal Weather Report track Birdland from the band’s 1977 ...
READ MORE >11/04/2019
Deep Thinking: Purple Haze
Hi Everyone, this issue’s challenge is to play some Jimi Hendrix. I have transcribed the introduction to Purple Haze as ...
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