A Workaround for 20 Years of Bass Shoulder Pain
If you’re dealing with bass shoulder pain, numb fingers while playing bass, or discomfort caused by a…
How to Build a Vocabulary of Musical Phrases
Many musicians spend years learning scales, arpeggios, songs, and even transcriptions, yet still feel stuck when…
How One Bass Phrase Can Turn Into Many Pieces of Vocabulary
A lot of bass players think learning a phrase means memorizing it note-for-note and then moving on to the next…
Why Some Musicians Sound Fluent
For years, I thought musical fluency came from several things. Now I think I underestimated one of them. More…
Music Phrase Pyramids Version 2 Is Here
Hear It. Capture It. Pyramid It. Learn It. I’m excited to share that Music Phrase Pyramids Version 2 is…
How to Internalize Musical Phrases Instead of Memorizing Fingerings
I’ll get straight to the point on this one: You don’t need more repetition. You need stronger…
I Built a Tool to Help Sounds Actually Stick
For years, I had the same frustrating experience that I think a lot of musicians have had too. You transcribe…
How to Train Your Ear Without Extra Practice Time (Using Spotify’s Mix Feature)
You listen to music every day. But almost none of that time is actually training your ear. Not because…
How to Get Back Into Bass (After a Long Break) — Start With 12 Seconds of Real Music
There are 12 seconds of Doreen Ketchens playing “When The Saints Go Marching In” that I’ve had…
What Losing Your Music Feels Like (And How to Get It Back)
There’s a version of you that played bass every day. Maybe it was rehearsals in someone’s garage. Late nights at…