Bass Player Magazine August 2007

(All musical examples in this issue are in music notation and bass tab)

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Feature Interviews and Lesson Articles

Interview with Geddy Lee of Rush . The interview also includes a mini lesson on Geddy's new 'flamenco' style strumming technique with musical examples.

Interview with Reid Anderson of The Bad Plus.

Interview with Reggie Washington

Profiles

Darryl Jennifer with Bad Brains

Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys

Viktor Krauss on the cinematic approach.

Ryan Monro with The Cat Empire

Norwood Fisher with Fishbone

George Porter from The Meters

Tommy Gobena - with Gogol Bordello

Full Transcriptions

John Lennon's "Whatever Gets You Through the Night ." Bass player is Klaus Voorman.

Partial Transcriptions and Lessons

Making peace with Oteil - short interview with Oteil Burbridge and a couple of musical examples.

Tensions - an intermediate lesson on note tensions.

Clave & Cuban Son - Intermediate lesson on afro-carribean rhythms

Boston's "More Than A Feeling." - A mini lesson looking at the constituent parts of this Boston tune.

The Gig Triangle - an interesting take on what factors to consider when accepting a gig or not.

CD Reviews

Tal Wilkenfeld - Transformation

Mawwal - Black Flies

Wayne Krantz - Your Basic Love 06

MIchael Brecker - Pilgrimage

Social Distortion - Greatest Hits

Jeff Berlin - Aneurythms

John Carey - Undefined psycho chromatic G.R.I.D

Queens of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris

James Brown - Jazz

North Mississippi Allstars - keep on Marching

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