Jazz doesn’t have a single story — it has several running simultaneously, branching, colliding, and feeding back into each other across eight decades. This infographic originally by Pete Lyons which I have just redesigned, maps those threads from the 1940s to 2000, tracing how blues and African-American popular music splintered into some of the most…
Learning to play bass guitar is an exciting journey that’s filled with the thrill of creating soulful, rhythmic melodies. Here are three reasons why learning songs on the bass is fun and really important for beginner bass players:
Happy New Year! Here’s to a great 2021. Bass lessons are back in my home studio. Great effort to my current students who attended Zoom classes throughout 2020. Well done, it presented some challenges but overall, their were lots of remarkable student improvements and great VCE music results.
The Samsung Galaxy brand sound has evolved over the years. Each year brings a new version with a fresh musical face. Here’s one of the earlier ringtone versions as a reference: and here’s the main melody motif from Samsung: IN 2016, Swedish jazz-funk outfit Dirty Loops was asked commissioned to produce their version, but just before…
Anthony Jackson is the bass players’ bassist — he might just inspire you to take bass lessons in Melbourne yourself. I subconsciously think of him in a class above world class. For me, he’s always been there. A consummate perfectionist, his bass lines have graced many popular widely known songs, yet very few would actually…
Do you ever dream about achieving big things for yourself? Do you think about how you could do better in something you are pursuing? Do you wonder why you are not getting the result you want for yourself?
Marcus Miller, a world renowned bassist, has had a huge influence on most bass players all around the world in the last quarter of a century — much like another bass legend worth watching, Anthony Jackson. Born in 1959, Marcus is a producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist who was classically trained on clarinet. With incredible musical facility he…
A live telecast from the Princess Theatre of The Hairspray cast & band performing on Hey Hey Its Saturday In this video clip, Jeremy is on a Fender Jazz 5 string bass playing live with the Hairspray band — read how I got my first theatre gig on bass. The finale and hit song of…