15/03/2017
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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A very happy and successful New Year to you. Following on from the last issues cross-handed tapping piece, I have written ...
READ MORE >Some funky fun this time from a bass player much admired in rock and funk circles – Flea of The Red Hot Chili Peppers. ...
READ MORE >I have written (or arranged!) something extremely different from our recent rock and funk escapades for this first issue ...
READ MORE >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 ...
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