Welcome to the first part of a series on what tools you’re probably going to need to land a gig that will keep the bills paid and food in your mouth. These tips come courtesy of bassist Larry Crew, who has had a serious 30+ year career in the Nashville music industry. Read these things. [...]

by Matt O’Donnell Managing Editor, Bass Frontiers I think everyone who has ever owned a Real Book can clearly remember where they got it from. My story begins in early 2004, so it’s not nearly as cool or as similar to a drug deal as many others have to offer. I had never taken a [...]

This lesson, Bossa Nova Bass, is an excerpt from the online course, Jazz Bass 2 at Stinnett Music Online School. Jim Stinnett is one of the world’s foremost instructors of both the electric bass as well as the upright. In addition to his teaching duties for over 20 years at Berklee College of Music in [...]

For the past number of years, the running joke at master bass instructor Jim Stinnett’s Bass Workout events has been that he would one day hold a workout specifically dedicated to reading notated music and see if anybody actually showed up!  If you know anything about Jim, you’ll know he was only half joking.  Stinnett [...]

by JD Williamson I ran across this article recently from the Fender website and wanted to pass some of the highlights from it along to our readership. I can’t take credit for the subject matter, but I can’t stress enough the importance of it. Please take the time to read it and pass it along [...]