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    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 22, 2014
    • 4 min

    Electric Balloon Tour, Day 4

    Oberlin ended up being pretty much the best college show we’ve played. The venue had big delicious cookies and the best root and ginger b...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 20, 2014
    • 4 min

    Electric Balloon Tour, Day 2

    Preparing for tour is a drawn-out, stressful affair. No matter how many times you’ve done it, you always forget to pack something, and ne...
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    The most excited I’ve ever been about a sandwich that didn’t even have any meat or anyth
    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 11, 2014
    • 2 min

    The most excited I’ve ever been about a sandwich that didn’t even have any meat or anyth

    I’ve been going to Commodore for years now. It has great happy hour (3 dollars for good stuff like Harpoon, in a neighborhood where it’s ...
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    You Can Never Escape Math Class: The Fretboard as a Grid
    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 7, 2014
    • 4 min

    You Can Never Escape Math Class: The Fretboard as a Grid

    Another excerpt from “How Do I Bass?”. See also this post about how the fretboard is not a grid. In the actual book this chapter will com...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 5, 2014
    • 3 min

    Road Story: High school punk smoothie scene

    Working on a long post about abstracting the fretboard, but the visual aspect is taking a while. In the meantime, here’s another road sto...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 3, 2014
    • 5 min

    Road Work

    Ava Luna is going on tour! We will be accompanied by Krill, who are an excellent group of musicians and humans. I look forward to backsta...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 1, 2014
    • 3 min

    Road Story: Sharon and the Sad Fan

    The first of a series of stories about things that happen on tour. Expect more on our upcoming tour! We are on tour opening for Sharon Va...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 1, 2014
    • 8 min

    Your Set

    Apologies for the inactivity while I adjust to the rhythms of sedentary post-tour life. Until I get my shit together to start producing c...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 30, 2014
    • 3 min

    Perception Exercise 3: The Sounds are Coming from Inside the Sound

    When a string or whatever object vibrates at a constant rate you assign a pitch to it, but there is never only one pitch. The string prod...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 28, 2014
    • 4 min

    Pete Seeger: “I make my living as a banjo picker– sort of damning, in some people’

    My summer camp used to take all the kids on a trip to see Pete Seeger every year. We would sail on his boat, the Clearwater, and spend a ...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 28, 2014
    • 1 min

    Time for the Bass Solo

    It is the 19th century, when Britain ruled the waves, and Dr. Livingstone and his band of missionaries are floating down the Zambezi Rive...
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    In Praise of the Nerdy Pick Holder: The Pocket Protector of Stringed Instruments
    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 27, 2014
    • 2 min

    In Praise of the Nerdy Pick Holder: The Pocket Protector of Stringed Instruments

    This is a Jim Dunlop “Scotty” pick holder. It costs two or three dollars, and if you don’t own one you should stop what you’re doing and ...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 25, 2014
    • 1 min

    Ancient Chinese blues

    Love this guy’s poise. Awesome harmonic runs towards the end like it’s not even a thing. Click through for video. #video
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    NY Pizza Suprema
    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 23, 2014
    • 1 min

    NY Pizza Suprema

    I am far from the first to shout out the superlative quality of NY Pizza Suprema, but let me just say: believe the hype. This pizza has t...
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    Kimchi in my Sandwich I know, I know, it’s serious
    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 21, 2014
    • 2 min

    Kimchi in my Sandwich I know, I know, it’s serious

    It’s no secret I love Vanessa’s Dumpling. Ideally the one on Eldridge, but they’re all a certain level of good. Everything  is cheap, and...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 21, 2014
    • 7 min

    Should I move to New York/Austin/wherever?

    The following is an excerpt from the other book I’m working on, tentatively titled Minimize Your Suck: Unsolicited Advice for You and You...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 19, 2014
    • 5 min

    Technology, Constraints, and why I love my Scordatura

    Another excerpt from my upcoming book tentatively titled “How Do I Bass?” Music is all about constraints. You can’t avoid them, so you mi...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 19, 2014
    • 2 min

    Perception Exercise 2: G = G ^ ~G

    Set the EQ flat on your bass and amp. If you normally use an overdriven or “hot” sound, set it to clean. Play an open G. Play it a bunch....
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 19, 2014
    • 2 min

    Perception Exercise 1: The Whole Hog

    This is one of the few exercises you should do without a metronome. You are not aiming for perfect execution, you are evaluating what is....
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Jan 19, 2014
    • 2 min

    Pitch <> Sound: The Fretboard as an Irreducible Whole That Refuses to Submit to Abstraction Despite

    When you’re starting out with a teacher, you are probably told that the fretboard is a grid, but this is only half true. The fretboard is...
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