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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This issue is the second part of the bass arrangement I have scored of Claude Debussy's Claire de Lune. What happens after ...
READ MORE >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 >As promised in the last issue, we are going to look at some of the aspects of James Jamerson's bass playing that made him ...
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 ...
READ MORE >Welcome to NZ Musician's new bass column we've badged Deep Thinking! Over the next few issues, we are going to look at aspects ...
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