The blues are over.
I don’t usually shop on ebay. I have had notoriously bad luck with ebay the last few times I’ve bought or sold anything on it. It’s a good place for old stuff you can’t find, but people generally know what they are selling these days and they know how to subsidize extra [...]
This is an old blog post that I decided to go back and update. Some of the ideas I expressed here have evolved since the first writing, so I wanted to reflect that. I’ve totally removed the bit about making organized practice routines because, as it occurs to me, they’ve never been so successful. I’d [...]
Electric Bass Instructor Available in West Ghent
I have over 15 years playing the electric bass, which includes 4 and 5 string as well as fretless instruments and a Bachelor’s of Music from Berklee College of Music. I am not a “failed guitarist.” I have been teaching privately for about 5 years, including teaching bass [...]
Sometimes as a music teacher, one finds themselves falling into the familiar pitfalls of their students. I am the worst offender of the “do as I say, not as I do” teaching philosophy. I am trying hard to overcome my personal hang-ups in order to be more of the “lead by example” type of instructor, [...]
My first decent bass was a black Jackson Concert EX (without the sharkfin inlays or the bound fretboard). It was totally a heavy metal bass. I bought it as a step up from the Epiphone P-Bass copy I had. I played that Jackson bass for a really long time. So long, in fact, that it [...]
I was just reading an excerpt from Anthony Vitti’s website about his transcription of a George Benson solo and how he likes to study non-bassists for soloing ideas. It seems like a pretty common sense thing but I don’t think it’s done often enough. There’s a contingent of bassists, especially here in Virginia, sitting around [...]
I’ve been really pissed off about my bass rig for awhile now and I am venting.
I’m using two Bergantino cabinets, which I love (a 2×10 and a 1×15 both have tweeters, which I leave flat). My beef is definitely not with them, they sound great, and just as importantly, they fit in my car. The [...]
