Author: Tom Kenrick

  • 5 Wonder-ful Pentatonic Unisons

    Five of Stevie’s best 5-note lines Stevie Wonder’s vast body of work is rightly revered by musicians (and, indeed, non-musicians…) for its harmonic and melodic invention; Stevie has managed to seamlessly weave jazz-based ideas, such as chromaticism, extended chords, and tritone substitution into his tunes and still sell vast numbers of records. One of his…

  • “No Need for 5-Strings if You’re Good Enough.”

    Occasionally, I see things on the Internet that are so insanely idiotic that I feel compelled to set the record straight. Here’s a Facebook comment on a fellow bassist’s page that made me despair for the future of humanity: The reason that this incensed me so much – aside from the lack of grammatical awareness…