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The SBL Podcast

055 - In Conversation with Evan Marien - Fusion Grooves

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Bass, Electric Bass, Sbl, Education, Music Interviews, Online Bass Lessons, Music, Bass Guitar, Scott's Bass Lessons

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast we catch up with the extraordinary talented Evan Marien. Evan first emerged as a force to be reckoned with with his duo recordings that featured drummer Dana Hawkins. About to hit the road with guitar legend Allan Holdsworth, his latest solo EP builds on his flexibility as both accompanist and soloist. In fact, Evan’s solo prowess is little short of awe-inspiring, particularly when playing his Ken Smith 5-string, but for all his speed (and he’s one of the fastest around), h...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, how's it going? So I'm back. It's Scott here with another episode of the SBL podcast.

0:05.4

And today we've got the one and only one of my favorite base plays in the world is Evan Marion.

0:11.6

I'm so stoked that we've got him on the podcast today. But also, we got to hang out with Evan a few weeks ago in Brooklyn, New York, because we were actually

0:22.9

creating a course with Evan for the membership at Scottsbacetters.com, along with a host of

0:30.6

other fantastic bass players as well. Evan was there. He brought his trio down, and his course

0:36.4

was focusing on improvisation and

0:39.3

interaction within a band. It's absolutely fantastic and the guys that he had down with him were

0:43.8

absolutely phenomenal players as well, as you would expect. But we've also had like Adam Neely's

0:49.5

being in, Rufus Philpott, Jonathan Marin, Rich Brown.

0:55.7

We've had a ton of crazy bass players over with us in New York

0:59.4

creating content for the membership at Scottsbacestessions.com

1:03.5

because for me, 2017 is really about, well, really striving to,

1:10.2

you know, we've created something amazing with

1:11.9

Scott's bass lessons already, but I really want to push that to the next level and get as many

1:15.9

of, you know, people that blow me away involved in Scott's bass lessons, it's completely

1:21.0

selfish. I just want to work with the best base plays in the world. So I'm doing it for myself,

1:25.6

but at the same time, everybody that's a member of Scott's bass lessons benefits as world. So I'm doing it for myself, but at the same time, everybody that's a member of

1:28.9

Scholar Space Lessons benefits as well. So it's a win-win situation. Anyway, before we get into

1:36.0

this week's podcast, I also want to just give a shout to a couple of things. First of all,

1:43.9

if you're listening to this,

1:46.1

and excuse my sniffling away,

1:47.9

I've got a really super bad cold.

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