26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Mr. Faun’s Afternoon
A very happy and successful New Year to you. Following on from the last issues cross-handed tapping piece, I have written ...
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Deep Thinking: Some Greasy Funk
As promised in the last NZM issue, we are going to do some slap exercises. These have a very slight difference from exercises ...
READ MORE >08/04/2016
Deep Thinking: And We Could Be Heroes…
This issue’s Deep Thinking column presented a dilemma. The last couple of years have seen the bass world lose two of its ...
READ MORE >20/12/2015
Deep Thinking: Chris Squire – Godfather of Prog Bass
Deep Thinking is making a brief return to the world of progressive rock in this issue to make a tribute to the great Yes ...
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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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Deep Thinking: YYZ: The Prog Rock of Rush continued…
After the tricky introduction that we looked at in the last issue of NZM, we are now in a relatively easier section of the ...
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Deep Thinking: YYZ – The Prog Rock of Rush
The last few Deep Thinking columns have been funk-orientated, so I thought we might get into some prog rock in this issue ...
READ MORE >26/04/2015
Deep Thinking: What’s Going On with James Jamerson
Following the James Jamerson lines we looked at a few issues ago, I thought that we might look at a different side of his ...
READ MORE >15/04/2015
Artiste
Dunedin jazz-fusion band Subject2Change's third album recorded in 2014 for Ode Records is an almost entirely improvised offering ...
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