so don’t get too stuck trying to play the chord shapes. Normally, we’d start by playing the G in the bass, because the root is our first port of call for constructing a bassline – but there ...

As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions in general, ...

Flanked by cuatros and congas, Bad Bunny wields the power of Puerto Ricans who have strummed chords and hummed lelolai for generations ... We scream with him: "Yo soy de P f***** R!" Whether you are ...

Cyndi Lauper’s life has been more colourful life than most, a fact underlined by an MTV-style montage that kicks off the ...

The Goo Goo Dolls first filtered into my aural periphery in the December of '95 - through the musical collection of a distant ...

The first ones float in from a variety of keyboard/synthesizers, twinkling like stars into a G minor chord that grows ever ... see Waters grooving away on the bass. (I actually tried this, but ...

Nijinsky is about Vaslav Nijinsky, an early 20th century ballet dancer and choreographer who stunned Europe. Called the “God ...

Whereas the album above was inspired by Wandelweiser in the 21st century, G O M B E R ... ending in the bass register of the pianos. At one point, there is a two-minute interjection during which all ...

Inversions are essential for jazz players, virtuoso cats such as Martin Tyler, but they are super-useful for any player ...

The Dead Bettys. // image courtesy the artist Lawrence cover band The Dead Bettys are an anomaly in the local music scene.