07/12/2016
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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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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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 ...
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 ...
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