I have been using Crescendo music notation software for the past few days, to write out bass lines, to experiment with arranging the notes i...

If you want to be a great bass player, you need to understand chord structures and bass lines.  A great bass line is a string of notes that ...

I read an ad on Craigslist for a jazz bassist and jazz drummer for a gig in Santa Cruz, California.  So I alerted my favorite drummer Stan a...

I am always seeking names for bands among the daily barrage of broadcasts, news and media.  Yesterday I was listening to the Blues Brothers ...

To change a major 7th into a minor 7th arpeggio, you flat the third and the seventh notes.  See chart below.

I just enrolled in Geoff Chalmers course, "Double Bass Arpeggios:  the Play Along Collection," at www.discoverdoublebass.com .  Th...

The Double Bass I have two underused double basses.  When I got them, I imagined that it would be fairly easy to move from bass gu...

I was offered a charity gig in Salinas for elderly and disabled citizens.  My regular bandmates either couldn't or wouldn't make it ...

Our band had a practice yesterday, in preparation for a gig on December 3rd.  We are using Jay of "Ship of Fools" as our keys man,...

I have noticed a growing success in my musical endeavors.  I am making new contacts and acquaintances who are musicians.  I recently quit ...