Fitting fresh bass strings can be a real treat: you realize what your bass guitar was missing out on and the top-end ...

The whole point was to look as if you were holding, manipulating and playing note-perfect renditions on ... who plays the bass professionally. ‘You realise you’re focusing on technique more ...

Pink Floyd used to sing that ‘hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way’, but Gilmour sounds happier than that ...

From the guitarron and the requinto to the guiro and the tololoche, these are some of the instruments responsible for música ...

Carnegie Hall announced the American Composers Orchestra will perform The New Virtuoso: Borders on October 30, featuring ...

Joining Barnett will be Matt Gill on clarinet, Paul Hormick on upright bass and Pete Miesner on guitar ... because you can really hear every note we play,” he said. The two-hour concert will ...

But understanding the bass means more than just both extremes of the fretboard. Some play a thousand notes on their instrument, and those just stick to the roots of every chord, but it’s all about ...

An astute choice of notes (he never overplayed ... of technical accomplishment to the art of double bass playing. With his dexterous fretboard work and supreme technical mastery, this virtuoso ...

Songwriter, actor, author, activist, rock star, jazz freak... Gordon 'Sting’ Sumner is quite the renaissance man. Oh, and he ...

The bass icon on how he’s being challenged by parts he wrote, changing classic tracks –and when his Funk Fingers will make ...