Recent content by musicandme

From watching a bunch of youtube instructional videos it seems like everyone has a slightly different approach to their picking hand. My main question is about the use of the thumb. Victor Wooten uses it, but jaco appears to stay away from it for the most part, and James Jamerson only played...

yes, it will be a passive j. most likely a squier vm

I need a DI to run my guitars and basses into my Emu 0404 soundcard and then into ableton. I use a combination of stomp boxes and software plugins to achieve my tone, and am having trouble deciding between these two DI's. I'm worried the additional tone controls on the Sansamp might be...

:hyper: OMG NEED MORE MUSIC LIKE BILL LASWELL THIS SECOND I've been a fan of "chill" music genres for my entire life and the linked laswell song blew my mind. It's like a mix of ambient and dub with laid back percussion and the smoothest grooving bass propelling the thing. Please point me...

I've been playing guitar for about 10 years and lately I've been obsessed with funk rhythms along the lines of sly and the family stone. I've started playing these styles of bass lines on my guitar...but obviously it's just not the same. Due to my newfound infatuation with bass grooves I'm...

I've been playing guitar for about 8 years now, and I'm looking to pickup my first bass. I've been playing basslines on my guitar for a while, and well it just doesn't cut it. I play funk/soul/jazz/mellow hip and will be recording direct into my computer initially. I am looking to buy a...