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 | Africa & The Bass PART 2: CAMEROON : Some of the world’s most inventive bass
playing can be found in Africa’s modern
pop music. | | | 5ths, 4ths & The Devil’s Interval : WE’RE ALL OUT OF TUNE, AND IT’S
Pythagoras’s fault. | | | Monitors In Metal: Cleaning Up The Low End : FELLOW HARD ROCKERS AND
metalheads (and maybe everyone else, too),
lend me your ears. | | | Intervals: Wiggle Your Whatzit : “OF COURSE I KNOW IT’S UNISON,” the singer says. “I just thought the bass was out of tune!” | | | Africa and the Bass: South Africa : SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST INVENTIVE BASS PLAYING CAN BE FOUND IN Africa’s modern pop music. While some players have gotten a share of the international spotlight, most of the continent’s great | | | Pickless Trickery: Flicking and Muting : GREETINGS, ASPIRING MEMBERS OF the low end metal militia. We gather as brothers and sisters once again to discuss ways in which fingerstyle bassists can dish out the same level of bass brutality as | | | 21st Century Upright: Raw Sound : LET ME ASK A QUESTION WHAT IS the most fundamental material element of any and all music? I would propose that beneath any stylistic, emotional, or intellectual consideration, it’s sound itself. | | | Triad Architecture: Passion Dance : STILL GOT THE PASSION FOR TRIADS?
You’ve been playing basic triads for the past
two Woodsheds, and I know what you’re
thinking: “Triads are boring, dude. Show
me the secret, hip stuff!” Don’t | | | Berklee Music Online Slap Bass : THIS MONTH, ANTHONY VITTI AND
Lenny Stalworth of Berkleemusic.com and
the Berklee School of Music share some
tips culled from their new online Slap Bass
course. Go to berkleemusic.com to sign up. | | | Triad Architecture, Part 2 : IT’S ONE OF THE GROOVIEST TRACKS
in the entire history of jazz. Bassist Sam
Jones and powerhouse drummer Art Blakey
sneak into the intro of “Autumn Leaves”
like bandits, stealthy and sure-footed. | | | 21st Century Upright: Etude For Comrade Watt : MIKE WATT IS A NAME THAT HAS
become synonymous with American punk
rock. With the Minutemen in the early
1980s, Watt helped re-write the rules of
punk bass by throwing out the rulebook.
Since | | | 21st Century Upright Punk Rock Etude: Kira : LAST MONTH WE LOOKED AT SOME
different ways to marry the organic power
of arco double bass with the monstrous
electric power of heavy metal. This month
we look in a different, but somewhat | | | Triad Architecture : “I CALL ARCHITECTURE FROZEN
music,” said the German writer and philosopher
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He was
commenting on the relationships of form
and function that both architecture and
| | | 21st Century Upright Arco Metal : OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES,
the technique, technology and musical applications
of the double bass (contrabass, string
bass, doghouse—call it what you will) have
changed and expanded rapidly. | | | Strike Force: The Foundation Of Hard Rock and Metal Bass Tone : GREETINGS ONCE AGAIN, INTREPID
readers. Against their better judgment BP’s
editorial chieftains have granted me this
space to write about Playing Rock and Metal
Bass Guitar. Barring some massive | | | More |
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