Bass Player

Bass Player is the world's most comprehensive, trusted and insightful bass publication for passionate bassists and active musicians of all ages. Each issue delivers the latest tips and techniques that are guaranteed to make you a better player.

WELCOME • Forget everything you think you know about the role of the bassist.

Bass Player

VOTE NOW! • Who’s the greatest bass player of all time? You decide!

NEWASSUME NOTHING COLUMN LAUNCHES IN BP • Say hello to our new columnist, Chloe Peacock

HeyJoe • New Ernie Ball Music Man Joe Dart models inbound.

Love Lines • A great bass-line, in 75 words or thereabouts.

Here And Now

Cue The Jazz

Soul Man

SPEAKING FRANKLY • New memoir incoming from Anthrax bassist Frank Bello

IN THE Groove MADONNA : THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION (SIRE, 1990) • Each month, we celebrate a classic, bass-loaded album. Has it stood the test of time?

Tony Levin • We celebrate five great - and less great! - albums on which a notable bassist appears

I WAS THERE! • A historic moment in bass world – recalled by those who were there to see it

RETURNING TO THE CROWDS • Let’s manage our performance mindset, says Antonio...

COMPOUND RADIUS • What the heck is this all about? Explain please, Rob...

USING ALTERED SCALES OVER DOMINANT CHORDS

THE FUTURE IS HERE Let’s meet them! • Anyone who wants to know where the world of bass is going simply needs to check YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, where a whole new generation of super-talented, super-successful bass players are pushing the instrument forward.

DAVIE504 • Over nine million subscribers tune in to Davide Biale , known to all as Davie504 , on YouTube. He’s a phenomenal bass player, with a sharp sense of humor that gives his videos an edge. In a rare interview, he tells us about his life before the internet came calling...

BLU DETIGER • New York bassist, songwriter and DJ Blu DeTiger ’s profile has gone stratospheric over the last year or two. We find out why it happened, and what it feels like.

CASH FLOW • We have to ask: How much money are these people really making?

DARRELL FREEMAN • A seasoned session player who has embraced the online medium and built a fanbase devoted to his “electric versus synth bass” videos, Darrell ‘The Real Free’ Freeman explains how it all gets done.

CHARLES BERTHOUD • YouTube sensation Charles Berthoud reveals that it’s not all about the numbers.

APRIL KAE • Influencer, model, activist, and highly trained bass player April Kae is out to change the world. We salute her mission.

TUBE TALES • Want some more? Check out these ‘primarily-online’ bassists...

TREVOR BOLDER • In every issue, we dig into the vaults to bring you an interview with a bass great. This month it’s the late Trevor Bolder , once of David Bowie’s band the Spiders From Mars, and in 2004 when we met him, enjoying a long career with Uriah Heep. He passed away in 2013 at the age of 62: Rest in peace, Trevor.

SPACE ROCK • Dinosaur Jr.’s Lou Barlow on life down below

MO FOSTER • From session bassist to composer, producer to author, over the last five decades, Mo Foster has occupied a seminal position among session musicians. But how do you even begin to quantify a 50-year career with Gerry Rafferty, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Frida Lyngstad, Ringo Starr, Van Morrison, Joan Armatrading, and many more?

STUART HAMM MEETS ARIANE CAP • Every now and then, we get a couple of great bass players together to do our hard work and interview each other about their lives at the low end. This month, the great Stuart Hamm breaks bread with the equally great Ariane Cap , both state-of-the-art educators and practitioners of solo...