6. November 2009

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Welcome to the Site

If this is your first visit to the site, please open this blog and have a quick read….. Welcome to davemarks.com This site, in conjunction with my other web portals (youtube, myspace, flikr etc) is a free resource for those of you who would like to learn about music, with a focus on the bass guitar. I [...]

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29. September 2009

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Ideas are like bullets and technique is like a gun

It’s the first week of a new semester at the ICMP. All of the new degree students come flooding into my classes and I’m faced with the challenge of teaching Harmony & Theory to all instruments and Technique to the bassists. It’s a funny combination of subjects. They seem to be polar opposites. Harmony & Theory deals [...]

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16. September 2009

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Cut out the shit.

I’ve been struggling to write recently. It’s an unusual figure of speech people use when they profess that they ‘cannot find the time’ to do something. Time is not something that we find or lose, that we trade in and can buy or discover more of. A better way to put it might be to say: [...]

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15. August 2009

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Space, The Final Frontier….

I went to see a gig recently on the invite of a friend. It had been recommended that I should go check out a player who’s come in and established himself as the hot bass guy in town. I texted him a few times to say hi and find out where and when he was [...]

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4. August 2009

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Internet forums

I posted this online recently in answer to a bunch of people who were ragging on a pro bassist that was contributing his opinions to some threads: “I’m only gonna jump in on the issue of “J%^$£” very briefly on this… I will preface this by saying he’s a mate of mine, but aside from that…. He is [...]

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18. July 2009

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Ass Kicking

Sometimes, as a sideman, there’s nothing better than having your ass kicked. It’s a very satisfying feeling knowing that you can survive, even flourish, in an environment where you have no comfort zone. Your senses must stay sharp, your reactions are constantly being tested. There is no opportunity to drift off… ‘what’s for dinner?…look at that cute [...]

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