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...
I’ve been a fan of Marcos Machado’s Tao of Bass ever since it came out a few years ago. In fact, I had him on the podcast not too long after the book was published to talk about his unique way of integrating multiple technical approaches to the double bass. At 217...
Like most people on Earth right now, I’m finding myself with a lot of time on my hands, and with a daily routine that has been radically altered. I’ll bet that you have to parallel narratives going on in your mind here in April 2020: What you were planning on...
