Bass Ear Training: develop a keen musical ear for playing bass

Bass Tone: The Upright Bass

by Nick Long | Mar 24, 2011 | Bass | 1 comment

Learn all about the importance of the bass guitar in music, the bass ear training you can do, and get to know the sound of the upright bass a.k.a. “double bass”

New Series! Bass Tone teaches the sounds of the bass

by Nick Long | Mar 23, 2011 | Timbre, Bass | 2 comments

It punches you in the chest, and flaps your trouser legs. It’s the thump that moves the rump. A bass player forms the connective tissue between the drummer and the rest of the instruments, standing with one foot in the rhythmic and the other in the melodic. The...