Everything you need to know about bass amp watts, power and efficiency By Dan Veall published 11 August 21 Making sense of the numbers will let you know whether your amp is too loud, not loud enough or just right
Prince's bass players over the years: in their own words By E.E. Bradman, Simon Price, Lindsey Borders, Joel McIver published 10 August 21 Prince, a masterful bassist in his own right, employed a series of phenomenal bass players. Let's met the team...
How to sound like Royal Blood's Mike Kerr on a budget By Amit Sharma published 10 August 21 Learn the secrets behind the colossal dual-amp tone of the bass-wielding riff machine
Jeff Berlin: "If you add academic music to your day, there will be almost no music or style anywhere that you can’t figure out on your own" By Phil Mann published 5 August 21 The fusion legend discusses his new Music Group, the art of bass education and importance of theory
The Who bassist Jon Button talks stepping into the shoes of John Entwistle and Pino Palladino By Bass Player Staff published 2 August 21 The touring bass player for the British rock legends – not to mention Sheryl Crow and Shakira – on the evolution of his playing and his onstage rig
Paul McCartney: "Anything Wings did had to be viewed in the light of The Beatles. And the comparisons were always very harsh" By Tony Bacon published 30 July 21 In this classic interview from 1994, McCartney looks back on the transition to Wings, its effect on his bass playing, and how he became an entertainer again
Everything you need to know about in-ear monitors By Dan Veall published 29 July 21 Protect your hearing and enjoy a better quality live mix – what's not to like?
Revisiting Prince's rollercoaster 1999 Bass Player interview: "Bass is primal, and it reminds me of a large posterior" By Karl Coryat published 26 July 21 Five years on from Prince Rogers Nelson's untimely passing, we remember the time BP was summoned to Paisley Park for a conversation unlike any other
Alex Webster: “Cannibal Corpse is always a ‘song first’ kind of thing... a big, heavy rhythm machine“ By Joel McIver published 22 July 21 The bass genius behind the ferocious death-metal killing machine on technique, songwriting and recovering from injury
Royal Blood‘s Mike Kerr: “There are videos on how to sound like us on a budget of £1,500. And I’m always thinking, ‘Man, you could do it with £600!’“ By Amit Sharma published 20 July 21 “This is a worldwide exclusive!” Kerr tells Total Guitar as he reveals all about his gear – from his preferred bass distortion pedal to signal-splitting and a bespoke baritone guitar that plays “like a giant bagpipe!”
Everything Everything's Jeremy Pritchard: "I really enjoy the limitations of the bass. It’s forced me to be creative with the basic building blocks of music" By Bass Player Staff published 20 July 21 Pritchard talks pedalboards, bass heroes and why he's happy to look "a bit silly" with a short-scale Fender Mustang
Fernando Saunders on Lou Reed, playing the White House and hitting Harlem jazz clubs with the Czech political elite By Bass Player Staff published 16 July 21 Ahead of the release of his upcoming album We Are People, the prolific bass session legend and solo artist shares a slew of stories from his remarkable career
Carlos Santana’s long-time bassist Benny Rietveld reflects on a career at the front line of expression By Joel McIver published 16 July 21 Rietveld on playing with Miles Davis and Carlos Santana, the pivotal points in his prolific bass-playing career and the gear choices he swears by
Sam Kiszka: “The P-Bass has been proven to be the best bass, perhaps of all time. Leo Fender was one of the greatest revolutionaries of our time“ By Joel McIver published 9 July 21 As retro rockers Greta Van Fleet return with The Battle at Garden’s Gate, bassist Kiszka discusses his bass journey, GVF's influences and his essential gear
Adeline: “For me, bass is about finding a good groove that people may not even notice – a good groove that I want to keep playing forever“ By Bass Player Staff published 5 July 21 The bassist and producer discusses the low notes behind her phenomenal creativity
Issy Ferris: “Playing bass gives me a power and character on stage that I hadn’t experienced before, and has made me a better performer and writer“ By Bass Player Staff published 2 July 21 Ferris & Sylvester kick out a full-band sound with just two members. Here, bassist Ferris explains how she does it
John Goldsby: “It’s expected nowadays that you know how to play Brazilian music, or funk, or hip-hop, or metal. A lot of younger bass players can do it all“ By Bass Player Staff published 1 July 21 Goldsby is back with three EPs from his eponymous trio, a much-needed perspective on the future of bass, and a definitive answer to the question, ‘Is jazz dead?’
Shez Raja: “The harmony in Indian music is super-simple – where it gets mind-bogglingly, face-meltingly interesting is the rhythm and the melody“ By Bass Player Staff published 28 June 21 The mighty Indojazzfunk bassist returns with his most ambitious album yet, Tales From the Punjab. We meet the maestro...
Tony Choy: "I’m a groove-oriented bass player – I love to stay in the pocket. I love the groove. We call it a kick drum with notes" By Joel McIver published 18 June 21 The super-talented bassist, producer, arranger, manager and now educator isn’t taking the pandemic lying down. We meet the busiest man in bass...
Hatebreed‘s Chris Beattie: ”No matter what you do in life, but especially as a bass player, you’ve got to keep learning” By Bass Player Staff published 14 June 21 Beattie checks in to talk about his journey on bass, the melodicism underpinning Hatebreed's pit-starting sound, and explains why he's loving the bass after some time off
