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Nathan East Releases New Bass Lessons

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 3:38pm

Written by AW

Topics: bass, guitar, nathan east, paul gilbert

Very excited to announce the release of more than two dozen new bass lessons from Nathan East! Besides a ton of new material that includes topics like Speed Drills, Arpeggios, Right Hand Posture, Show Preparation, Playing with Feel, Adding Flare, and much more - there's also a new section of performances with fellow ArtistWorks instructor Paul Gilbert! This was their first time ever playing together, and besides some amazing jamming there's some very insightful discussion and analysis. If you play bass (or guitar) Paul and Nathan's sessions are gold, filled with insight into how guitar and bass work together. Not to mention nugget upon nugget of tasty riffs and ideas. Check out the video above where they talk about different approaches for playing around on just one chord.

Jazz Bass Tip: The Diminished Triad

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 6:13pm

Written by AW

Topics: bass, jazz, john patitiucci

John Patitucci has been around the block a few times, so when it comes to playing diminished he's heard it all. Too often bass players end up playing the same thing.

Or more specifically, they'll play a series of notes which immediately stick out as being part of the diminished scale. To John, this is like telegraphing your move:

"That always used to drive me crazy. I'd hear someone play diminished and it's like 'here we go now we're playing diminished, oh isn't that great'… After a while there's no creativity, it's just spelling out a sound with no musical end game."

Paul Gilbert Jams with Nathan East - Behind the Scenes

Tue, 10/15/2013 - 3:45pm

Written by AW

Topics: bass, guitar, nathan east, paul gilbert

It's always a treat when our artists come back to visit us in our studio out in Napa, CA - even more so when there's two of them! Nathan East recently was in town recording some new bass lessons for his students (which are coming soon), and we took the opportunity to get him together with another of our artists, Paul Gilbert. You'd think that because these two both live in the Los Angles area and have been playing professionally for decades that they'd have run into each other before - but as it turns out, this was their first time not just playing together, but also meeting each other!

It was a great session, filled with plenty of laughs and some great jamming. Stay tuned for the all the Official Footage from this session coming soon to both Nathan and Paul's online schools!