Perhaps the most awesome part about going to GuitCon 2018 was getting to hang with Phil X for a week. Here’s a cool, flashy pentatonic lick that I know you’ll enjoy.
I remember hearing this song back in the mid 90’s – I was probably 7 or 8 years old and I was floored with the bass playing. Flea was one of my first bass idols, and he’s as sick tod...
This song was written by my friend (and phenomenal guitar player!) Bill Worrell. Brian Kops and myself accompanied him here at The Bassist Headquarters to try and keep the line between Prog and Pop as...
My dad first introduced me to this song when I was about 10, and I just could not wrap my head around it. How do you tap your foot to it? How do you play this crazy line? He’s playing with a pic...
This was the first bass solo that I ever “learned.” I didn’t actually learn it note for note, but I first heard it when I was about 10 years old and I began emulating it, vowing to l...
Flea has and always will be one of my favorite bass players. He was such an inspiration and a huge influence for me as a young bassist and this lick has always alluded me. I won’t lie, I’m...
This record was a big deal for me; 2003 was the year I started dating my wife, the year I quit high school, the year I decided to make music my full time career, and coincidently it was also the year ...
I love Tim Foreman. If I could trade places with any bass player in the world it would be him; I love his style, his tone, his voice leading, the fact that he has hair…
A young student brought this song to my attention some years ago, being a huge Ben Folds fan. I always love it when students end up turning me on to something that I wasn’t aware of, for instanc...
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