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Who are the clinicians that will be teaching at this session of the Mile High Bass Camp? For this edition of the Mile High Bass Camp, I am honored to have Ray Riendeau returning as a clinician. Ray is a highly sought after bassist known for his amazing slap and fingerstyle bass techniques. Mature musicianship and dedication to pushing the bass in different directions makes him a player worth knowing. He's done everything from performing around the world as a touring musician with Rob Halford to being a featured bass clinician alongside Victor Wooten, Steve Bailey, Matt Garrison, and many others. You can see him all over the internet playing everything from bebop to hard rock. Ray is bringing his gigging drummer Martin Diamond from Arizona to join him for his presentations. Doug Johns is new to Mojo's, and we are really looking forward to meeting him for the first time. Doug is coming in from Ohio with his drummer Chris Ceja. These guys have lots of bass and drum videos available online. They are full of groove and soulful ideas. Doug was recently featured in the April 2009 issue of Bass Player magazine in which he talked about his fingerstyle funk and new solo recording. This is the first time we are offering this camp to both bass and drum students. What are the primary topics that will be discussed at the camp? We are taking a bit of a different approach this year. We will be setting up a drum kit along with a couple bass rigs. Ray and Doug will present clinics on groove playing which feature their approaches to technique, working with a...

Paul Rogalski – The Art Of ListeningBy Brent-Anthony Johnson
Paul Rogalski is a busy man! A bassist since his early teens, the Boston native graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1990, and has since been based in Boulder, Colorado where he found touring and session work with Northern Colorado mainstays Nina Story, Lauren Monroe, and Touch Monkeys. These days, Paul’s main gig is the principle instructor of Mojo’s Music Academy. There, he teaches 45 private lessons each week. In addition to his duties at the academy, he leads MojoMama – a heavily booked R&B-based quartet featuring his wife, Jessica Rowand as vocalist.
BAJ: P-Rogue! What’s happenin’! Welcome to Bass Frontiers, dear friend, and congratulations on Mojomama’s second release, “Think.Feel.Love.Listen”!
PR: Hi Brent-Anthony, and thank you for this opportunity! It is such an honor to be on these pages of Bass Frontiers and it is always great talking music with you, my friend… let’s get on with it.
BAJ: Let’s go way back, man… Tell us about your teen years (where did you grow up, etc.) and your beginnings on the bass – up through your time at Berklee.
Paul Rogalski
PR: Okay… I grew up outside of Boston in Hingham, MA, near the Atlantic Ocean. I often found myself gravitating towards the bass while listening to music at the junior...

This article originally appeard in the "Practice Like the Pros" column in Bass Player magazine, April 2004.
We asked busy working bassists about their practice methods, and each had something different to say. Part 6 in a series.
-Michael Menduno
The way to learn a piece correctly is to practice it slowly to make sure that you get all the moves right. One benefit of...