Review of Phil Braithwaite Masterclass @ Leicester College

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Hi all,

Phil Braithwaite is a London based guitarist currently gigging with virtuoso violinist Vanessa Mae. Currently doing about 250 gigs a year, which is almost every day. Not just that but he also wrote couple of books and here is one more coming soon.

He performed some of the fusion music that he wrote. After first piece you could see him as well equipped musician and I don’t mean just in terms of the gear but also musical knowledge.

Phill is really nice relaxed guy and he spoke about his journey as a musician and a human. He really makes sure to explain how important is music and live playing for him. He turned down safe job teaching (at age of 23) in Succesfull University in London to pursue his playing. And I believe it worked. As he explained he rarely turn down a gig and that gives him so much work. He explained how it helped him to get gig with Vanessa Mae.

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Hi,

I have been in the Yellow Bean studio playing my fretless bass for Sylva Faye. I felt I should share her work over here. She is really good composer, singer guitarist and amazing flutist. We are playing together in band called Cats Who Fish where she plays  the flute.

It was really nice to be asked to record for her I really like the music it is really different to what I am used to and I really like to do the original music playing different way. As on this recording I used the Warmooth fretless bass which history is not well known but it is about 20/ 25 years old instrument and can sound close to the ( Electric) double bass. That was what I wanted as she really like the sound of double bass but I have not got one (yet).

Here is the track that I have played on but please listen to all of her tracks. Stile that I would say the song is in is modern folk.

Portrait of Tracy by Jaco Pastorius

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Hi,

I have posted a tab and a notation of Portrait of Tracy and I just recorded it at home. I hope you will like it. It is basically a bass guitar classic from Jaco Pastorius. I have learned it because it is nice and I have also learnt a lot about harmonics from this piece, specially the harp harmonics were really hard to play at the beginning. Anyway, I hope you will enjoy it. I have recorded a video as well and I post it soon.

New gig with Out of Karma

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ook1I have been asked to play bass guitar for this amazing band this Friday and I am really enjoying learning their music. They are very good musicians and they sound just like in the CD. This really helps if you have five days to the gig and not really much time to practice with the whole band.

Their music is a mix of melodic reggae, ska, dub, funk and rock and their lyrics are great. They released an album last year and I went to their gig in Leicester (at The Donkey) and really liked what they did. It really made my day when they told me I was first to be called to do the job :)

Have look on their website and enjoy their clip: