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GALLERY: NAMM 2011 - Photos from the Floor, Day 1

Photos uploaded live from Winter NAMM 2011

Warwick Star
Warwick Star singlecut bass with dual humbuckers and tigerwood top.
The major blues scale is such a vital scale for guitarists to learn to add color, dimension, and emotion to their solos. Here are the three simple steps to mapping the scale across the fretboard.
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Our lupine columnist’s recent single holds an example of a captured experiment yielding excitement in a recording. Check it out on YouTube via the search term “Making the Faith” or via the link in this story.

Our columnist shares the benefits of recording those moments where you’re just improvising and experimenting with ideas. If you make a practice of it, you’re more likely to strike gold.

Welcome back to another Dojo. To date, I’ve somehow managed to write over 50-plus articles and never once addressed the importance of recording your experimentations and early rehearsals in the studio (and of course, your live performances as well). Mea culpa!

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Photo by Liam Maxwell

Pixies announce their brand-new studio album, The Night the Zombies Came, due for release on October 25.

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Bassist Sebastian Steinberg’s credits range from deep-cut avant-jazz to the highest levels of pop stardom.

The low-end groove-master—who’s worked with Soul Coughing, Fiona Apple, and Iron & Wine—shares some doses of wisdom.

Umpty-ump years ago, at the beginning of my music magazine career, I conducted my first ever interview. It was with bassist Sebastian Steinberg of Soul Coughing, and I was excited to be talking to half of the rhythm section powerhouse behind this avant-rock, sounds-like-nothing-else quartet.

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