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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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26/06/2016

Deep Thinking: Frank Prestia – A Tower of Power

As mentioned in the last issue of NZ Musician, we are going to look at a couple of bass parts from Frank ‘Rocco’ Prestia, ...

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26/10/2015

Deep Thinking: Two ‘Why I Am A Bass Player’ Singles

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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