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My ‘in session’ cyber band

My ‘in session’ cyber band

A while ago Nick wells, editor and owner of the excellent ibass magazine asked me to contribute to the tutorial section. This is when I came up with the ‘in session’ idea – bassists can play along to high quality original tunes played by real musicians. Each tune has a different focus – topics like time keeping, groove playing, improvisation, sound, technique, bass line creation, fills, etc. are all on my educational agenda with a view to enhance the vast skill set a bassist needs to do successfully play ‘sessions’ and in the broader sense to improve their musicianship.

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The Beauty and the Beast

The Beauty and the Beast

Austria is not a country known for churning out heaps of funky, jazzy, souley type of musicians and one of it’s nine provinces names Salzburg with the province capital with the same name possibly even less so. As it happens, this is were I was born?When I was a little whipper snapper I slowly started to understand that this town was known for it classical music heritage and apparently world famous classical music festivals – birthplace of the infamous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (who really knew how to write a good tune or two:-) and Herbert von Karajan, a conductor with some international notoriety…

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