by Jon Liebman Review by Ty Campbell Bass Frontiers Contributor Bass Aerobics by Jon Leibman, as it states on the cover, is a 52 week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving, and maintaining bass guitar technique. Yes, there are 52 exercises, and each exercise covers 2 full pages. Bass Aerobics has 5 chapters, which cover [...]

Review by Ty Campbell Bass Frontiers Contributor Roy Vogt’s Teach Me Bass Guitar, also known as TMBG, is a quite unique product, if not an all out venture into the fabulous world of learning bass. The packaging for this product is exceptional, with ease of access to each DVD. There are a total of 10 [...]

Published by Hal Leonard Review by Steve Bryant, Bass Frontiers Educational Contributor (Editor’s Note: Be sure and check out our article by Managing Editor, Matt O’Donnell, entitled The Real Book: A History & Commentary) There are generally two kinds of bass books available, one praising a certain player’s style and technique. The other gives the [...]

Review by Ty Campbell Bass Frontiers Contributor Jazz Improv Studies Volume 1 is the first in a 4 part series. This is, by far, not your typical play along series. This series is very well thought out and will keep you busy for quite some time, while helping to expand your musical approach to it’s [...]

by Ty Campbell Bass Frontiers Contributor TELSTAR is a new band with the 3 members hailing from Atlanta, LA, and Toronto. TELSTAR is Chris Unck (vocals, guitar, lap steel), Eva Gardner (bass, vocals), and Stew Heyduk (drums, vocals). The members of TELSTAR have toured and performed with artists such as Pink, Mars Volta, and Veruca [...]

by Matt O’Donnell Bass Frontiers Managing Editor If you’re one of our international readers, you will probably have gotten the sense by now that we here over in North America have SO much music made here being shoved at us all the time that we often don’t look enough around the curve of the earth [...]