At the top of every score, and the beginning of every stave, repeated on every line, is a symbol that, to seasoned musicians, becomes so familiar as to be invisible. The humble but mighty clef. Clef ...

Tim Bass was just a boy when he discovered music, but it was love at first note. “I was raised in a very poor family, so my family couldn’t really afford private lessons or anything of that nature, ...

Spinal Tap's "All-Bass" sound ("Big Bottom"), taken and played seriously by jazzmasters. The Bass Clef Experiment is a creative collaboration between bassist Greg Gohde and cellist Mike Alvarez.

Music is often described as a language, and it’s equipped with its very own vocabulary. We go back to basics and make a pitch for reading music. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...