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The SBL Podcast

059 - In Conversation with Andrew McKinney - Projecting The Groove

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

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast Andrew McKinney lends an insight into every bassman’s dream gig. Aside from leading the bass department at BIMM London, Andrew McKinney is bassist with the James Taylor Quartet, whose high-energy blend of groove jazz has earned them legions of fans right across the globe. What’s more, the bass parts are almost always jaw-droppingly amazing – and Andrew is the first to admit how lucky he is to be in a band that allows the bass such space to move. “I was described once as a ‘...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, how's it going? Scott here from Scottsbassessons.com and I'm back with another episode of

0:04.7

the Scott's Bass Lesson podcast for you. Today we've got the awesome Andrew McKinney withers from

0:09.9

JTQ, which is obviously James Taylor Quartet. By the way, guys, if you've not heard the James Taylor

0:14.7

Quartet before, it's not, you know, the acoustic guitar player James Taylor Quartet, it's the

0:19.5

seriously funky JTQ James Taylor Quater.

0:23.4

So check them out and Andrew has been playing with them for 10 years. It's 10 years ago.

0:27.9

Since he joined the band, he's a seriously great bass player, super funky. And in this podcast,

0:33.5

he's going to talk about being a better groove player, how to get the best out of the drummer that you're working with,

0:38.8

which is obviously super interesting subject,

0:41.1

and what it's like working with James Taylor as well.

0:44.6

I should also mention that he's head of bass at BIM as well,

0:48.4

which is, I don't know what it stands for, B-I-W-M in London.

0:51.9

It's like one of the big music schools in London. British Institute of

0:57.2

Modern Music, maybe, something like, that'll do. And he's a regular player in London's West End as

1:06.0

well. And right now he's doing, I think he's doing Dream Girls at the minute as well. You get to, he'll tell you all about it in the podcast.

1:13.8

I'll let Nick take over in the, take over in a minute.

1:16.7

And also, I think he tells you about his killer 62 P-base as well.

1:20.5

So obviously, you know, I'm a huge fan of the P-bases.

1:24.2

But before we get into the this month's or this week's podcast, I should also mention

1:29.6

that we've just released this very week. We've just released our first in the SBL artist

1:37.3

series courses into the course library here at Scott's Bass Lessons. As many of you know,

1:46.1

I was over in New York at the beginning of 2017 filming a series of courses with guys like Cody Wright, Rich Brown,

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