3. What other sources of information on bass playing exist?
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This article is from the Rec.music.makers.bass FAQ, by Kalle Kivimaa Kalle.Kivimaa@hut.fi with numerous contributions by others.
3. What other sources of information on bass playing exist?
On-line:
There is an electronic mail magazine devoted to bass playing
called The Bottom Line, distributed on a basis depending on the
amount of material received (currently averaging about one issue
per day.) To subscribe to The Bottom Line, or for other
administrative correspondence, send email to majordomo@magpie.com
with the message body containing lines such as help, info
bass-digest, or subscribe bass-digest. To submit an article for
publications, send email to bass@magpie.com. Please do not send
personal correspodance to these addresses.
There is also a mailing list for bassists who play in Christian
churches called ChurchBass. It is available in individual messages
and digest forms and has been picking up traffic steadily
averaging one digest daily. The list processor arddress is
listproc@ccad.uiowa.edu.
The newsgroup alt.guitar.bass is a previous version of this
newsgroup. It is still used by people who cannot access rmm.bass
for one reason or another, and some people crosspost when the
topic is of general interest. If you use both groups, PLEASE
crosspost rather than posting seperately to each group. Ask your
sysadmin how to crosspost if you do not know how.
There is no specific newgroup for TAB for bass, so it is usually
carried in rmm.bass. Sometimes bass TAB is posted to
rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature which is a newsgroup which is
mostly devoted to TAB for guitar.
Off-line:
There is a magazine called (appropriately) Bass Player which
features interviews with famous bassists, product reviews, lesson
columns, and TAB transcriptions of famous bass lines. Bass Player
can be bought at most music stores. There is another magazine,
called Bassics which also carries information on bass playing and
bass players, but which may be harder to find than Bass Player.
Also in the UK, a magazine called Bassist and Bass Techniques is
out. In addition, most guitar magazines such as Guitar World have
a bass column and occasionally print articles related to bass
playing or bass tablature.
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