Recent content by Li Youwei

I have played it many times at weddings and it has always been successful. I have also done Suspicious Minds. I was surprised at how well they went.

I'm a drummer and also play bass and guitar. During my improv studies the teacher, who is a guitarist, sat behind the drums and tapped out quarter notes on the cymbal with a pen to keep time. It was some of the most solid time I've ever heard from anyone, and really drove home the importance of...

Mark Sandman.

If you have no ownership in the band then you shouldn't have to invest a cent, the owner of the band should be investing her own money to pay for the musicians, videos etc if the band earnings are insufficient. If you are expected to invest, your ownership should be proportionate to the...

In Beijing, non German Warwicks and Epiphones can be had cheap if you know where to go. In Japan get something made there. Service in Japan is awesome. If you want some names to drop for discounts in Beijing, PM me.

His best playing is on the live Cream stuff. Crossroads is nuts. I also like the album Songs for a Tailor.

Mark Levine's Jazz Theory Book.

I live in China and in my experience, that boy will end up in the box due to a workplace mishap, not by any grand defection scheme.

I was in a band with the owner of Jianghu, Wang Tianxiao. We were in a band called Sand. Might pop over on a tuesday for a play.

I took two years off from Beijing and playing to do some more music study in Melbourne, been back in Beijing for a year, so not many gigs right now, but a lot of drum teaching at the Midi school etc. Before that I played bass in Black Cat Bone, and drums in loads of rock bands including Sand...

I've been playing and living in Beijing for almost 12 years now, also an Australian. Drums and bass mainly. Do you play exclusively or are you doing something else as well?

Why don't you just go down to Billy Hydes Blackburn? Same thing in my opinion. Once I bought a DVD and the guy hands me one of the shelf. To my surprise he'd handed me the store demo, which had no discs in it. They are also prone to give as much disinformation as possible, and are clueless about...

The Olympics pushed prices up massively here. I'm constantly amazed at how large the nouveau riche population has become - kids dropping up to 15,000 yuan on a Les Paul or Warwick without batting an eyelid. There's a guy in my neighbourhood with two Lamborghinis that he keeps parked outdoors...

I got to hang out with Baron Browne a little bit in Beijing when Vital Information toured. I was taking the band around town and to and from the gig. Their soundcheck was fraught with hours of technical difficulties, all of which had been solved by the time Baron came out from the dressing room...

I think bass playing is 98% ears, 2% technique. Why? Because technique should be taken for granted - if you practise enough you'll get it. It exists to allow you to transfer what your hear to your fingers to your bass. China is full of bassists with super chops Victor Wooten wannabes with no...