Two videos, one bass, and a simple message: if you want to slap, Warwick makes some of the best instruments for it on the planet. The Warwick Corvette $$ —

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I had the Fender Jaco Pastorius signature fretless bass in my hands. And my first thought was: this is beautiful. My second thought was: it’s too perfect. Jaco Pastorius had

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Let me tell you about the best decision I made for my live rig, and why I turned down the Moog. When I was putting together the synth bass sound

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Some bass lines are famous. Some are underground classics that bassists trade recommendations about like secrets. Wayne Braithwaite’s bass line on Melba Moore’s “Mind Up Tonight” is the second kind.

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If “There It Is” is the one that builds and builds, “I Can Make You Feel Good” is the one that hits you right at the start and never lets

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Shalamar put out some of the most infectious R&B records of the early 80s. “There It Is” is one of those tracks I keep going back to because the groove

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Some bass lines are so locked-in and so perfectly constructed that they’ve been sampled, transcribed, and studied for over forty years. “Act Like You Know” by Fat Larry’s Band is

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There are artists that come along once in a while and make you feel like music is being invented all over again. Tom Misch is one of them. Tom Misch

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Twenty years of playing bass, and I still keep coming back to the same handful of songs. Not because I’ve run out of material. Because some grooves are just built

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Most bass players have never heard of D’Mark. Even the ones who spend time on gear forums, who follow boutique builders closely, who know every Sadowsky model and every Ken

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