Bass Player Magazine October 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 Aston "Family Man" Barrett .Interview also includes some musical examples - including I SHot The Sherriff, Burnin & Lootin, and Exodus.

Interview with Gary Willis. My opinion is that whatever kind of music you play you should get hold of everything that Gary Willis has ever written and read it, absorb it, learn it, use it. This guy has so much knowledge it's almost scary. This is a great interview and there's a couple of solo examples from the CD being talked about here - Actual Friction.

Interview with Jimmy Earl

Interview with Neil Stubenhaus & Jeff Carney

Profiles

Steve Adams with the Animal Liberation Orchestra

Bootsy Collins

5 Questions with Tony Grey

Lemmy & Djordje Stijepovic with The Head Cat

Mack McKnigh of Atreyu

Full Transcriptions

Black Sabbath's "War Pigs/Luke's Wall ." Bass player is Geezer Butler.

Partial Transcriptions and Lessons

The Funk Behind Paul Simon - A brief look at some bass lines from Paul Simon tunes - including Kodachrome, Slip Slidin Away, Graceland, Diamonds on the SOles of Her Shoes, and 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

4 bar example from The Clash's Rock The Casbah

Whaddya Know - learning Tunes Quickly by John Goldsby

Fretboard Freak Show - Tackling Steve Vai's Freak Show Excess

CD Reviews

Eberhard Weber - Songs of a Long Journey

Miroslav Vitout - Universal Syncopations II

Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

Bruce Hornsby/Christian McBride/Jack deJohnette - Camp Meeting

Slightly Stoopid - Chronchitis

Brian Setzer Orcherstra - Wolfgang's BIg Night OUt

John Scofiled - this Meeds That

Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy - Cornell 1964

Alex Machacek, Jeff Sipe, Matt Garrison - Improvisation

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