In a year filled with choices to make and issues to debate, there’s one thing on which we can all agree: Bass stuff is cool. But what’s the coolest? Starting in December we sought the advice of our favorite special interest group: ...
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Features
- Jaco’s 1962 Fender Jazz Bass “Bass of Doom” Found!
- Anthem Of The Tone: Phil Lesh & The Modern Electric Bass
- Lesh Is More! Portrait Of An American Beauty
- Marc Johnson’s Homage to Bill Evans & Scott La Faro
- Bass Player Magazine Mourns Passing Of Cachao
- Bass Player Artist Master Class Webcast: Michael Manring: Full Range Bass - Sponsored by SWR
- Steve Bailey
- Miroslav Vitous
- Cachao!
- Pantera’s Rex Brown Digs In With Down
- Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones
- Bass Player Live! Highlights From the Annual Fall Call to Bassists Far and Wide
- Bass Player's NAMM Report
- The Bass World Remembers Joe Zawinul
- Incredible Journey: Eberhard Weber
- Duran Duran’s John Taylor
- Rock & Roll Wake-up Call
- Chicago's Peter Cetera
Gear
It’s official. We can all set our sights on locating James Jamerson’s long-lost ’62 P-Bass “Funk Machine,” because the most famous missing bass guitar of all has been found. Jaco Pastorius’s fretless 1962 Fender Jazz “Bass of Doom” ...
- Retro-Rama: 1968 Hagstrom H8 8-string
- Retro-Rama: A 1983 G&L L-2000
- Retro-Rama: 1974 Gibson Grabber
- Retro-Rama: 1980 Music Man Cutlass I
- 1967 Wandre Etrurian “Black Tulip”
- 1959 Rickenbacker 4000
- 1969 Gibson EB-3
- New Stuff From NAMM Part 1
- DNA Analogic BD-1 Bass Dragger
- Cause & Effect
- Happy Feet
- Frantone Electronics Bassweet
- Fulltone Bass-Drive Mosfet
- Gallien-Krueger Diesel Dawg
- HAO RR-1 Rust Ride Bass Driver
- Homebrew Electronics Hematoma
- Ibanez Phat-Hed PD7
- MXR Bass Blow Torch
- Nobels ODR-B Bass Overdrive
WoodShed
Although the bolero is originally a triple-meter dance that originated in 18th-century Spain, its modern form took hold in Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico as a duple-meter song form in the late 19th century. In the Cuban and Mexican ...
- Dawg Pounds
- Focus Forms, Part 3: Incorporating Shifts
- April Homework: Transcribe!
- Forget Those Scales Part 2
- March 2008 Homework Assignment
- Cachao’s Tumbaos
- Alternate Fingering & String Crossing, Part 2
- Forget Those Scales Part 1
- February 2008 Homework Assignment
- Let It Flow, Let It Flow, Let It Flow
- January Homework Assignment: Good Tone is in Your Hands
- Cha-Cha-Cha!
- December 2007 Homework Assignment
- Alternate Fingering & String Crossing
- Matt Garrison: In The Moment Of Improvisation
- November 2007 Homework Assignment
- Learning Tunes Quickly
- Gary Willis - Actual Friction
- Tackling Steve Vai’s “Freak Show Excess”
Forum Feed
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Summer NAMM booth assignment
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:33:57 EDTdave251:
Just got my NAMM show booth assignment for the Nashville show, the 3rd weekend of June. #2046; l ... -
Lost Harmony H22
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:22:58 EDTdcr:
I understand about the attachment. But honestly, the best thing to do about that is going to be ... -
Played a wedding last night
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:30:57 EDTjlrush:
Nice story Joe, glad you all had a good time. Weddings can be really fun or they can be just ano ... -
Attention Jeremy C, , Getz76 and Zeronyne!
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:00:09 EDTslowfinger:
We are sticky-be ... -
Gigspam, My 100th gig!!!
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:08:52 EDTb5pilot:
Congrats! I've lost count of how many but I've been giggin' on and off for around 30 ye ... -
Quick nut fix.
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:29:15 EDTNewf:
Thanks all! I appreciate your answers. I think I'll try the jelly superglue as I do have some ... -
Mesa Bass Cabinets - You Like Them?
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:29:21 EDTjcdlc72:
they sound awesome, but are SO heavy..... ...
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