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March 09 2010
You can now make video and audio comments to all the posts
New page for your suggestions for a better website here
December 21 2009 – PlayBassNow.com is “Website of the month” in UKs premier bass magazine
We are very honored to be selected “Website of the month” in the latest (january 2010) issue of Bass Guitar Magazine
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October 19 2009 – 10 New selected “lick of the day” transcriptions released!
The brand new licks in question are:
10 Lick of the day transcriptions vol.4
L239 E slap bass w ascending 6ths
L255 Em7 dorian lick 1st position
L257 Em7 dorian scale bass lick from the minor 3rd
L259 Em7 dorian bass lick from the 4th
L262 Swinged soul groove in C Major
L264 Fast Em dorian scale bass fill
L271 D9 bass groove w open string
L274 Gm pentatonic lick in 5 positions
READ MORE HERE
September 30 2009 – Added the ability to reply to comments
August 27 2009 – You can now add your favorite lessons
Below each lesson there is a link “Add to favorites” and you can see all your favorites in the menu above
August 25 2009 – Guest teachers rampaging playbassnow.com!
I no longer have to be – the manager, the owner, the chef, the dishwasher, the waiter, the cleaninglady… all at the same time – ive gotten help from other brilliant bass players / teachers
Say hello to the first members of the staff Bruno and Blyss
August 24 2009 – Transcription added to Lick of the day L238
August 12 2009 – Hooray!! My original youtube channel restored!:-)
Long story short:
My channel marlowedk was suspended on copyright infringement (me doing a playalong), i filed a counternotice (a complaint stating i was only doin it for educational purposes ), and 5 months later it got restored.
However i have deleted all playalongs from my youtubechannel, but you know where to see them – just look below;-)
YOU PLAY ALONG! launched
Want to see/hear my and other players playalongs?
Want to upload your own?
Then head over to YouPlayAlong.com
There you can hear and see me play bass on top of:
Hair, Release Yourself, Walk Baby Walk, It aint no fun to me, Water, Hey Mr Writer, The Jam, Pow, Turn it out, Feel the need, Earthquake, Boogie baby – Graham Central station.
Mista Cool, Get the Funk outa ma face, Stomp, Ill be good to you – Brothers Johnson
Voices inside – Donny Hathaway
Superstiton, Sir Duke, Boogie on a reggae woman, Do i do – Stevie Wonder
Whatever it is – Jamiroqai
Caves of Altamira – Steely Dan
And the beat goes on – The Whispers
Le Freak – Chic
Hit me with your rhythm stick – Ian Dury
Shake your Booty – KC and the sunshine band
Real thang – Narada Michael Walden
Flirt – Cameo
So i got to groove, Only so much oil in the ground, What is hip – Tower of Power
Roof Garden – Al Jarreau
Wont you come dance with me, Young girl are my weakness – Commodores
Dig a little deeper, Some Skunk Funk, You gotta give – Brecker Brothers
Back in black – AC/DC
Sexy MF – Prince – guitar solo excerpt
Hip pockets bass solo excerpt – George Duke Billy Cobham band
Ecstacy – Barry White – bass jam
Lets get serious, Messing time – Jermaine Jackson
Yearnin Learnin, September – Earth Wind & Fire
Should Have Known Better, Swing Down Chariot – Billy Preston
Ironic – Alanis Morrisette
We are family – Sister Sledge
Working 9 to 5 – Dolly Parton
Red baron – Billy Cobham
Come on Come over – Jaco Pastorius
Same thing – Sly Stone
Rio funk – bass solo
Carwash – Rose Royce
Teardrops in heaven, Den lille løgn – Sanne Salomonsen
When will you be mine, Cut the cake, Person to person – Average White Band.
Lets Work – Prince
All american alien boy – Ian Hunter (bass solo)
Ive Got the Right Street, You got the love – Rufus
I need your loving, First class love – Teena Marie
Glide – Pleasure
Reach for it, Straigth from the heart, Funkin for the thrill, Brazilian loveaffair – George Duke
Shake – Gap band
Never gonna be your lady – Louise Hoffsteen
Tell everybody – Herbie Hancock
Something to talk about – Bonnie Raitt
Use me – bill withers
Learning to live – Beth Hart
Busses and trains – bachelor girl
Baby Love – Mothers Finest
One of us – Joan osbourne
Still alive and well – Johnny Winter
Perfect Strangers – Deep Purple
Soul power – James Brown
Creeper – David Sanborn
Back on the right track – Sly Stone
May 8 2009 – 10 New selected “lick of the day” transcriptions released!
See the licks and get volume 3 HERE
MarloweDK bass diary on Twitter
As always following the latest trends in social networking;-)
Read my Twitter practice/gig/finds diary HERE, its short and sweet – how we like it
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25/03/09
New youtube channel “Marlowedkplaysbass”
23/03/09
Well, starting over on youtube, lets hope im not kicked again
Visit the channel and subscribe here
For now just some as the same stuff as here , but i will upload special features to my youtube channel
Friends and fans i thank you!
11/03/09
Thank you for all of your supportive emails and good suggestions regarding finding video hosts for my old playalongs and especially thank you to my good friend and great bassplayer George aka funkstar650, and to my other Youtube friends 47pulp, xNot5ur3x, marcosderos , Dmanlamius76, Smaz and others for supporting me – thanks guys!
YOUTUBE SHUTS ME DOWN!
10/03/09
ARGGGRRRR!! MY YOUTUBE ACCOUNT IS CLOSED!! ON COPYRIGHT ISSUES (my play-alongs), most of my videos were hosted there and are not available rigth now BUT DONT DISPAIR! I still have the original videos and will move all my “Lick of the day” and other tutorial videos to other video hosts, within the next few days i hope, starting with the most recent ones
Well i must admit that im in shock right now, my main claim to fame is abruptly closed down:-(
And im not able to open a new YT account, im a “persona non grata” as far as they are concerned
BUT PLEASE! THOSE OF YOU WITH AN YOUTUBE ACCOUNT PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD THAT MARLOWEDK AND PLAYBASSNOW.COM LIVES! , THANK YOU. And to those of you that have downloaded some of my videos in the past, you are more than welcome to upload them to Youtube, it would be of great support to me and a way to get people over here.
Of course you should only upload my original stuff as “the lick of the day” videos – not the playalongs – we dont want you shut down too!:-)
But i need a place to host my old playalongs, still got most of them so if any know of a less rigid videohost let me know
Weekly LIVE streaming video podcast chat
13/03/09 UPDATE!
Sorry guys, forgot all about that test session, during this Youtube mess, will make proper announcement next time
Ill make a test session Tuesday evening March 10 at 10 PM (Gmt + 1), you are all invited to chat and ask questions.
Learn to play by ear
05/12/09
New section on how to learn playing by ear and throw away the TABs
10 questions answered
30/11/08
Just gave a fun interview to Kris, a talented player and teacher, that – like myself – has a youtube channel and his own website – go check it out – he is covering a lot of good basic stuff
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Theres a FAQ to the most common questions i get.
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BassWorx said,
March 1, 2010 @ 12:00 am
Hey Marlowe ! The only reason I like it is because you would never know it was Kenny G !!
Sounds nothing like him ,Almost NO SAX and great vocals and great bass line !Believe it or not it’s funky R&B, old style.
Normally Kenny G freaks me out too !!
Check this one exception out. You might be surprised…. I Was.
MarloweDK Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 8:34 am
Ok, ok:-) Send it to me then, info@playbassnow.com
BassWorx said,
February 28, 2010 @ 7:23 pm
Hi Marlowe !! I have an old tune ( 1983 ) That I think you would like,very funky ! If you like it… I’d love to here you play it.
Called: Hi How ya Doin’ by Kenny G.
Album: G Force
Great Tune !!!
MarloweDK Reply:
February 28th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Sorry, Kenny G freaks me out:-D
Dominee said,
March 12, 2009 @ 10:48 pm
I’m glad you’re still out there,
Who needs you tube????
Keep the low going!!!!!!!!!!
Throbbin Bob said,
March 11, 2009 @ 7:38 pm
Heard about the PRS decision regarding music videos on you tube. It’s a poor one, but don’t give up, I really dig your playalongs!
Aardappel2 said,
March 10, 2009 @ 11:32 pm
Hey MarloweDK,i was shocked when i discovered that your youtube account was deleted. It is indeed a disaster 
. But at least i am happy to find that you still have a lot of video’s on your website. Thanks a lot for all the free video’s and please keep goin!
Rest assured, they will all be back
kuma9 said,
January 15, 2009 @ 4:24 pm
WOW!!! What a great site. I see that you have transcriptions to all of your exercises, but do you have any transcriptions of the songs that you play on youtube?
No, only my own stuff, i dont transcribe songs (i dont need to, faster to relearn by ear for me), but transcriptions of my own stuff is for students, maybe a book some time…
chinjazz said,
December 30, 2008 @ 5:38 am
Hello MarloweDK,
I stumbled upon your site while searching for some additional lessons to freshen up my playing. I really like your tasty playing! Very much like how I want to play. I switched from drums 10 years ago and can recognize that you have a great sense of timing!
Your site and efforts will keep me funking it up for a long time.
Thanks!
Adam
jrexr said,
December 29, 2008 @ 11:35 pm
Some thing more to endorse. What’s a good set of headphones to use to get a good bass response on you px4d?
I use cheap Media-tech computer headphones, more bass “oompff” than my expensive “true” sounding ones
dengsiao said,
December 7, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
Hi MarloweDK, I have a request: would it be possible that you provide the audio part (as ogg or mp3) of your videos as a download too?
Loading the file f.ex. in audacity allows me/us to further reduce the speed of your licks for better understanding and practicing.
And thank you so much for sharing your work.
All the best
michael
Lots of programs to convert formats out there – And i dont want to spoil you any further;-)
simonj said,
December 1, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
Is it a prototype ? Have you used it live yet ? A step or two up from the old rig I guess. Looks pretty cool too !
Yes its a prototype and Ill try it live next week
simonj said,
December 1, 2008 @ 8:47 pm
You nearly gave it away…. the new rig. Looks interesting.
2 x 12’s cabs, but what’s the head ? rgds.
450 watts class D amp with Preamp and compression and you can use it detached from the cabinets as a practice/recording preamp – it has a digital output, an analog line out and stereo audio inputs.
Cabs are 2×10 and 2×12 speaker units are on top of eachother so you get a “tower” of speakers you can hear and feel as opposed to speakers playing into your calves…
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: No, but its totally new still (2 days) Regarding "yuotube for bassplayers" remember our "sister site" www.youplayalong.com
: Right DK that's a good point, but i don't think many visitors have seen you can give a comment by video sending etc. I am planning on getting some record stuff soon, i work also with apple and im turning my garage band into my recorder but i need some cables, after that i would love to subscribe with video;s. With this page this site could be like, a "youtube for bass players"? sounds tempting to me =) See what you think bro!
: Hmm, "User licks" - thats a good idea, but let us see if anyone makes a video comment first;-)
: hey all.. what if? visitors have licks to share too? could we make a special page in the next site? for user licks? maybe increasing the site with some profound bass licks? greetz and happy 300 DK!
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March 1, 2010 @ 12:07 am
It really does’nt sound ANYTHING like K G.