02/08/2019
For this issue, I have transcribed the opening bass part on the seminal Weather Report track Birdland from the band’s 1977 ...
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Just keep swimming: A hero's quest. ‘If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what good am ...
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Hi Everyone, this issue’s challenge is to play some Jimi Hendrix. I have transcribed the introduction to Purple Haze as ...
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Earlier this year I was in Los Angeles and caught up with the amazing guitarist Carl Verheyen (pronounced Ver-high-in) at ...
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This Deep Thinking piece is a solo bass tune with a nod in the direction of Charles Dickens (a ‘nod’ being the important ...
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This column investigates and celebrates the connection between the physical body, spirit and sound. I combine vocal warm-ups ...
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APRA AMCOS NZ has announced the participants of SongHubs 2018 - a professional songwriting workshop to be held at Auckland's ...
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American upright bassist and rising jazz star Nathan Brown, one of the most in-demand bassists in New York City, will be ...
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The minor pentatonic scale is a favourite scale for rock guitarists to get ideas for soloing, with the Blues scale being ...
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