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19/08/2024

Deep Thinking: Stevie Wonder’s Masterblaster (Jammin’)

I always used to say to bass students in the UK and here that two of Stevie Wonder's most challenging bass lines are from ...

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21/05/2024

Deep Thinking: Come Together Over A Classic

Come together over a classic. After a few Deep Thinking articles, in which I've talked about the theoretical issues of bassline ...

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23/08/2023

Deep Thinking: An Exercise For Both Hands

An exercise for both hands with some sight reading thrown in! Over the last few NZM issues, we’ve been looking at building ...

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01/02/2023

Deep Thinking: Building Basslines – Part 2

Following on from the last two Deep Thinking online columns here we continue the quest to build a unique bassline, whether ...

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16/11/2022

Songwriting Hacks: Relative Major & Minor Diatonic Chord Substitution

Hi songwriters. The title might sound a bit complex but this a relatively simple and cool idea to have in your songwriting ...

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27/07/2022

Deep Thinking: Building Basslines

In this instalment of Deep Thinking we are looking at a way you can use different scales when confronted (or even challenged!) ...

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06/04/2022

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 ...

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04/03/2022

Mokotron: Tawhito

TAWHITO by Mokotron

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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 ...

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