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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The Verlaines have been a musical force for 35 years (in various guises), and intriguingly currently exist in two versions, ...
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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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By Ian Chapman, Bateman Publishing, rrp $50 One of the many endearing aspects of Dr Ian Chapman’s book, 'The Dunedin ...
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This Deep Thinking bass lesson concerns how two sources of bass in a band can sound big and grunty (is that a word?). I did ...
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Arcee is Rona Claire Wignall, the performer name being both her initials and a riff on that of a feisty female Transformers’ ...
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Not many local drummers will have built their own acrylic drum kit, or constructed a vintage drum machine. Stuart Harwood ...
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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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