Recent content by Rebel Bass

If you are playing smaller gigs, with smaller speaker area, it's the headroom, especially necessary for players who have a lot of dynamics in their touch. If you are playing larger stage concerts, you may need to power more speaker area, and that requires higher power. Either way you're just...

This Chord Studies book is a great book to go through. The exercises remind of Jeff Berlin. The book is actually a study of embellishments, upper neighbor, lower neighbor, and upper to lower neighbors, to chord tones. Mostly on triad and seventh chords. Not really a study of scales though. It's...

Lots of guys never learn scales, but still manage great careers. The ear tells you what notes work. But if you want to speed up the process and expand your playing, take the time to learn them, then don't worry about them anymore. The scales to learn are: Major, with all of it's modes, chords...

IMO these are all electric basses, so unless you are actually going to be acoustic, just play the bass you like the most, through an amp. I played with a major artist on KROQ's Acoustic Christmas back in the early 90's, the singer and the guitarist used acoustic guitars, I played electric bass...

I had a NYC P/J that I bought used for $ 2800, a great deal. I sold it for $4200 later, so they hold their value well, which is a plus. The bass sounded great, but I wasn't thrilled with the way it played, for me (it was the "vintage", but the "Will Lee" plays better IMO). It really does come...

The problem getting a truly flat EQ is that when you factor in the cabinets and the speakers, you rarely can tell if you're flat. Also the room you're in will deceive your ears, not to mention the distance from the speakers you're listening at. Best bet is doing A/B with your rig mic'ed and...

No offense bass bro' Dr. Cheese, referring, in general, to the post and other comments, not personally yours. I was commenting on the fact that funk originated with rhythm, it is music, not a social construct. It is a world phenom, a multi-cultural phenom, a tribal and folk phenom, a dance...

Kind of funny how people want to segregate a musical element (rhythm) into race, era's, likes, dislikes, and other things that are not musical. Funk is interpretation of rhythm, there is funk in many, many genres, it's in r&b, disco, rock, jazz, afro-cuban, blues, hip-hop, and on and on and on...

What are you really buying? It's about the perfect tool for what you are building. Are boutique basses worth it? I met Michael Tobias back in 1984, at the time his bases were $1200 max, but I saw the progress weekly, learned a lot about what a Luthier does, woods, etc., and it was MORE than...

If you have your bass in your hands 6-12 hours a day, you are the type of player who needs something comfortable, and inspiring. Also, if you are a working professional, you need the best tools. For me, being a working pro for my whole life, I would take the 25k and get as many of the type of...

yes, please send me his contact info. thank you

Thank you. I called John yesterday, but haven't heard back. Heard him playing with Kurk Covington at Elephant Room. I will check into Utah, I live south of Austin. What is the Bass Hang? Is that the same as the Bass Workshop? Any other suggestions for meeting players? Thanks again.

I am fairly new to the Austin area, and I'm looking for the best Double Bass teacher I can find, for upright technique, mostly focused on Jazz styles. I have 30+ years experience on electric bass, studied upright in college but stopped playing it after school. Looking to study, on a rental, and...

Agreed, thanks.

Yes, I received, and you got yourself a very cool instrument. Looks great and looks like a lot of fun.