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How Perception vs. Perspective Plays Out on Bass

Perception vs. Perspective on Bass

Would your instrumental preconceptions hold up if you don a blindfold and take them for a test drive?

ByJanek GwizdalaApr 08, 2025

Janek Gwizdala

I used to think that stereotypes and preconceived notions about what is right and wrong when it comes to bass were things that other people dealt with—not me. I was past all that. Unfazed by opinion, immune to classification. Or so I thought, tucked away in my jazz-hermit-like existence.

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