You seldom hear people say, "I love the bass guitar in that song." But the bass holds the whole darn thing together. That's ...

Willie Weeks is best known for his storied bass solo on Hathaway’s 1972 Live album, but the disc also features what may be ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, passed away recently at the age of 84. Phil was one of the ...

I thought Phil was the most unique part of the Grateful Dead. It didn’t surprise me that Bob Dylan said that in his book Philosophy of Modern Song, when he was talking about [“Truckin’”]. Usually ...

Lesh agreed, even though he had never played bass guitar ... “Each note seemed to take days to develop, ever overtone sang its own song, each drumbeat generated a new heaven and a new earth.” ...

Trying to choose 15 songs from Quincy Jones' illustrious career in music is a steep challenge, but you can't go wrong with ...

“When I first learned to write music I had a three-string nylon,” Sixx told Guitar World in a recent interview. “I started writing notes – I’m still the weird kid with the ...

Although they played together for less than a year, James Brown became somewhat of a father figure to bassist Bootsy Collins, ...

What makes music operate how it does ... So, in an E minor for example, the bass note of that chord (on a guitar, this would be an open E string) defines the starting point of the chord, while the ...

Because higher action doesn't just affect how hard your guitar is to play. If your action is low it can highlight uneven frets that can cause the dreaded fret buzz, or even choked notes where the ...

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The Experience of Ecstasy, philiosopher Simon Critchley explains why the only proof of animism he knows is music ...