Bass Player Magazine July 2005

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

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Feature Interviews and Lesson Articles

Bassists of P Funk - Feature with Billy 'Bass' Nelson, Boogie Mosson, Bootsy Collins, Rodney 'Skeet' Curtis and Lige Currey - the bassists of Parliament and Funkadelic. Also features the thoughts of George Clinton. There's some nice funky musical examples too!

Interview with Tim Commerford - Interview with the bass player from Audioslave.

Profiles

Jesse Keeler from Death from Above 1979.

Percy Heath - Orbituary

Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen - Orbituary

Preston Crump from Citizen Cope

Meshell Ndegeocello

Antone Chooky Caldwell with Snoop Dogg

Mikey Way with My Chemical Romance

Full Transcriptions

Michael Jackson's "Rock With You." Bassist is Bobby Watson - great bassline!

Partial Transcriptions and Lessons

Beginners Column - Chord Tones

Learn To Play - Coldplay's "Speed of Sound"

Ed Friedland - 12 Step Program - A further look at numerical shorthand

Moving with the spirit - Gospel Study with Andrew Gouche

The Rules - Guest columinst Michael Manring

CD Reviews

Michael Manring - Soliloquy

Victor Wooten - Me and My Bass Guitar - book, a biography

Gospel for J.F.P III - Tribute to Jaco

Coldplay - X&Y

Jauqo III-X - The Low C Sharp theory

Jeremy McCoy & Friends - Dialogues with Double Bass

Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory

Frank Black - Honeycomb

Lucero - Nobody's Darlings

Collier & Dean - Duets

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