Here’s the latest in my attempt to create more content for beginner bassists! Minor scales are always a bit complicated due to their natural, harmonic, and melodic forms. I did the best I could (!) in the above video to explain how they work, and I recorded all...
A few years ago, I was searching in vain for a YouTube video of one of George Vance’s Progressive Repertoire pieces. This search proved futile–the best thing I could find was a blurry cell phone video of a 12-year-old playing it at a recital. Frustrated at not...
This is a look inside the home studio of Grammy-award-winning bassist Abo Gumroyan. Be sure to follow Abo on Instagram, and check out links to everything he covers below. If you’d like to jump directly to a specific piece of gear, visit the YouTube video and...
Last week, I wrote a review of Boardwalkin’, one of my longtime favorite materials for maintaining and developing my left hand technique. It’s impossible for me to cover the left hand-focused book Boardwalkin’ without also getting into the right hand-focused book...
When I was in music school back in the late 1990s, I remember hearing mutterings about this incredible new book that Philadelphia Orchestra principal bassist Hal Robinson had released. Titled Boardwalkin’, this book seemed to be a key component in the practice...
