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Bass Musician Magazine

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Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsInterview With Bassist Jorge Bringas If you’ve been following our magazine, you may remember my interview last August with Gustavo Schartz from the Broadway production of Buena Vista Social Club.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsPentatonic Scale Variations – Part Three This is my third series of lessons that apply intervals and sequence variations to the pentatonic scale. If you are new to these concepts, review my lesson – “Seeing Shapes and Patterns”.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsOct 26 Edition – This Week’s Top 10 Basses on Instagram Check out our top 10 favorite basses on Instagram this week… Click to follow Bass Musician on Instagram @bassmusicianmag FEATURED @rayriendeau @dingwallguitars @alpherinstruments @serek_basses…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Johnny Sandler, Clothes Lines Bassist and composer Johnny Sandler released Clothes Lines, a collaborative album of 21 instrumental pieces.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Löyly Syndicate, Juniper Path Jukka Haavisto, internationally recognised as one of the leading names in Finnish jazz fusion and fretless electric bass, released Juniper Path, the new album by his Löyly Syndicate.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Pops Magellan, UNSOLICITED JAMS Brazilian bassist, composer, and producer Pops Magellan releases UNSOLICITED JAMS, a new EP reimagining music by Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers, and Parliament through instrumental arrangements…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsInterview with Gail Ann Dorsey: Career, Bass, David Bowie, Bass Lines, and More Gail Ann Dorsey is an American musician who worked and toured with David Bowie for more than a decade, playing bass in his band and on several of his albums.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsAprende ‘Equinox’ en el Bajo (John Coltrane): Groove, Melodía e Improvisación En este nuevo aporte para Bass Musician Magazine, el bajista, compositor y educador chileno Daniel Gazmuri explora “Equinox” de John Coltrane, trabajando el groove, la melodía y diferentes recursos…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsOct 19 Edition – This Week’s Top 10 Basses on Instagram Check out our top 10 favorite basses on Instagram this week… Click to follow Bass Musician on Instagram @bassmusicianmag FEATURED @mubcustom @dingwallguitars @elegeecustom @stgermaineguitars…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: Spector One-of-One Custom Shop Rose Sparkle Bass Auction for Breast Cancer Research Spector is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a one-of-one Custom Shop bass created to benefit breast cancer research.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Yosef Gutman, Perfect Traveler BASSIST YOSEF GUTMAN REUNITES WITH ECM PIANIST YONATHAN AVISHAI FOR THE TENDER, WIDE-AWAKE PERFECT TRAVELER… Patterns and improvisations for five-string acoustic bass guitar and piano, shaped…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: Jackson Honors Four Metal Legends With The Legend Series Jackson is launching the Legend Series: four new signature models inspired by iconic instruments originally built for David Ellefson, Marty Friedman, Randy Rhoads and Scott Ian.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Gear: Fender Unveils the Next Evolution of American Professional Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) announced the next evolution of American Professional, its flagship series of electric guitars and basses.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Bassist Greg Chaisson (Badlands) Returns with New Atomic Kings Album, Too Turn it up. ATOMIC KINGS are about to blow the doors off 2026! The Phoenix-born hard rock wrecking crew unleashes their ferocious sophomore album, “Too,” by FireRock Music Group.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsInterview With William Birckhead: Career, Bass, Hanson, Jennifer Lopez, and More… William Birckhead is an American bassist who has worked and toured with Hanson and Jennifer Lopez. He offers an MXR Bass Synth course where he breaks down the pedal and helps bass players better…

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About

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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