Today’s PLAYER is one-of-a-kind bass player: Michael Manring. Without a doubt, he is alone in his area of bass playing. He boggles my mind with his various tunings, postion changes and a constantly evolving harmonic perform, all on four strings. Here is a clip of Michael playing something that evokes so much feeling, so much…
Critical Listening by Matt Bokulic Hi gang, I thought I would talk about the art of listening to music. There are several components to listening. Form, harmony, melody, rhythm, instrumentation, tempo, and style. Today, lets talk about form. There are sections to music that create the foundation for all the other components of music to…
Lee Ping Jiang is a graduate of PLAYERS school’s 40-Week BASS Program. Lee is a multi-faced active bass player in Taiwan Music Scene. His Tae-ke ( Taiwan Punk ) band LTK Commune is an influential legend in indie music for more than 20 years, won a Golden Indie Melody Award in 2013. “The Year spent…
Alessandro attended The Players School of Music in 2007. Electric Bass Major. With the famous Italian Rock Band “No Logo”, Alessandro performed in many live shows throughout Italy, winning also the contest Suonatecele that was announced by La Tenda. From 2002, He started the Accademia di Musica in Modena, Italy following both the theory class taken…
Attended The Players School of Music in 2002. Founder member of the pop Band “BOY LIKE GIRLS” ( The Boston-area band — which also includes,Bryan Donahue (bass) and Paul DiGiovanni (lead guitar) ) Although John study for a brief period of time at The Players School of Music, we consider him part of our family.
“Before I went to the Players School of Music, I was under the impression I knew the fretboard pretty well. However, within weeks my entire life changed as the Players School really showed me how to learn my instrument! After I left the players school I was able to support myself full time teaching guitar,…
I have had the pleasure of participating in the One Week Intensive program five times, the first one in 2006. Every time I have left with the feeling of time and money well spent. In fact I have enjoyed every minute. The reason for this is both what is going on throughout the week, but…
I’m gabriele costa,i’m 22 years old and i come from italy! After i graduated at the players school of music in the 40 weeks bass program, i just want to say that the players school of music is one of the best experience of my life! The school taught me how to improve my music…
PLAYERS Graduate 2005 Bass player / Artist / Composer Jon von Boehm is an in demand musician from the Nashville area. After a decades long career being a session bassists he decided it was time to put out a record of his own with musicians that he has played with through the years locally and…
PLAYERS Graduate 2011 Bass player / Artist / Composer Carter Fang is a founding member of one of the top pop bands in Taiwan called “Cosmos People” and he is a first-call musician from the Taiwan Rock Area. After graduating from the 40-Week Music Program for Bass at PLAYERS School of Music he went back to…