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    TECHNIQUE OF THE MONTH

    Sep 03, 2019 3 minutes

    This month, I would like to continue my series of articles about tapping on the bass. Let’s continue to look at some of the some of the songs from my first solo release Radio Free Albemuth, released by Relativity Records in 1988. That’s an unbelievable 31 years ago! It will be hard for many of you younger bassists to grasp (and most are younger than me at this point!), but way back then, tapping on the bass was a brand-new thing.

    Certainly, guitar players had been using some forms

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