Enter the Practice Room: Diminished Over V
When practising, it’s quite important that we play exercises that resolve if we’re to assimilate them into our vocabulary effectively. ...
I'm on a record with some of my musical heroes...
If you'd have told a 14/15/even 27 year old me that I'd one day have a session musician credit on the same album as John Rhino Edwards,...
Deeper Grooves: Great Bass Playing You May Have Missed - EPISODE 3
Deeper Grooves: Great Bass Playing You May Have Missed - EPISODE 3 Rod Stewart - Vagabond Heart (1991) Bassists: Bernard Edwards, Carmine...
Deeper Grooves: Great Bass Playing You May Have Missed - EPISODE 2
Deeper Grooves: Great Bass Playing You May Have Missed - EPISODE 2 The Feeling - Twelve Stops and Home (2006) Bassist: Richard Jones The...
Anatomy of a Horn Arrangement [Part 3]
Scott Whitley - Trust In Me When Scott messaged me to ask my opinion about putting live horns on one of his old demos, I jumped at the...
Deeper Grooves: Great Bass Playing You May Have Missed - EPISODE 1
Deeper Grooves: Great Bass Playing You May Have Missed - EPISODE 1 Kiki Dee - Perfect Timing (1981) Bassist: Gary Twigg When you pick up...
Bassist's Books for Xmas!
I’m always asked this time of year which books I’d recommend students put on their Christmas list so that their gift-giving loved ones...
Anatomy of a Horn Arrangement [Part 2]
Phil Johari - Slow Burn (Part 2) The first track I wrote horns for on this album was 'What You Talkin' 'Bout''. It proved to be the most...
Anatomy of a Horn Arrangement [Part 1]
Phil Johari - Slow Burn (Part 1) In the autumn of 2019, I became involved in the debut album project of Lancashire-based guitarist Phil...
Swing 42 - bass solo!?
I've loved the music of Django Reinhardt since I became aware of him as a keen jazz beginner in the summer of 2005. His cheeky style...