03/05/2017
In this issue we are going to look at polymetric basslines and drum patterns that have been recorded by two bands described ...
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In this issue I am looking at a tune from a musical I saw when I was 15 years old. It was one of the reasons I became a professional ...
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As it’s the Christmas period, I thought I would do some shameless marketing. There is a new album, ‘Dunedin Spleen’ ...
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In this issue we are going to take some of the techniques from last issue’s Deep Thinking column and turn them into a country ...
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In the last NZM issue, we looked at some iconic Afro-American funk bass lines that used a less is more approach. We'll ...
READ MORE >Many readers of the Deep Thinking column will be familiar with British trio Cream, one of the bands of the late 1960s that ...
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As promised in the last NZM issue, we are going to do some slap exercises. These have a very slight difference from exercises ...
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This issue's Deep Thinking bass column is the result of a conversation between some of the University of Otago Music Department ...
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After the tricky introduction that we looked at in the last issue of NZM, we are now in a relatively easier section of the ...
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