www.mutantbass.com has produced this rather fantastic introduction to frethand leading… Mind bending and a brilliantly produced video too…

I’ve played a various Music Man basses, including the Stingray 5 (of which I’ve been an admirer for a long while) and the curiously named Bongo (strikingly modern looking), but I’ve never played a Stirling. So, I was very pleased to find this video with Ed Friedland (aka The Bass Whisperer), which gives a nice walk through of […]

This made me smile on a cold, wet British morning. It looks like Mark is playing the original Status Graphite King Bass in this video (complete with rather nifty the bendwell that Rob Green put into the design). Check out this video on Killer Chops TV:

Watts Tower Festival Bass Choir in tribute to Charles Mingus:

I got gently nudged a while ago to use my bass skills to try out ivideosongs.com. In essence it is an on-line, video-based song-learning site, now with support for us lovely bass players. Getting to grips with the service is very straight forward: head to ivideosongs, then click sign up (top right). Bash in your email address, […]

If you’ve been asleep or on the road, then you might have missed this video on YouTube. Yes it is the super mario theme. Count the number of strings, definitely one for extended range bass!