092 - In Conversation with Evan Marien - The Improvisers Mind

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🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In today’s podcast Evan Marien lifts the lid on his brand-new course for the SBL. A recent addition to the SBL faculty, Evan Marien has been turning heads ever since he was named as an ‘Exciting New Player’ in Bass Player Magazine’s 2009 Reader’s Choice Awards poll (he actually made the top 3 alongside Esperanza Spalding and Hadrien Feraud!). Aside from joining what would become guitarist Allan Holdsworth’s final tour back in April 2017, and unveiling his latest solo release as EMAR, Evan has...

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0:00.0	Okay guys, Scott here back with another episode of the SBL podcast and this week we've got our very own Evan Marion who is part of the SBL faculty here at Scott's Bass Lessons.
0:11.2	We've actually just launched a course into the course library of Evans where he's talking about improvising within a trio setting.
0:19.0	He's tearing it up on his Ken Smith. He's also got Devin Collins,
0:22.8	the fantastic New York City bass drummer in the course with him, who also plays with like Richard
0:27.7	Bonner and Felix Pistorius. He's also got Julian Pollock as well on Keys, who's just a fantastic
0:33.7	player. The whole course is amazing. We've had some amazing feedback about it. So if you
0:38.8	are an academy member already, go check it out. It's in the course library for you already. If you're
0:44.2	not an academy member yet, go over to the website, check it out. You can grab a 14-day free trial over
0:50.0	there. And in a nutshell, we are the number one online learning platform for bass players in the world right now.
0:56.4	It's just like nothing like this has existed before. It essentially means that you can study directly from and with the best base educators on the planet.
1:06.6	It's super cool and I would absolutely be stoked if you checked it out. So go to scotspaceessons.com, check it out.
1:12.6	It's amazing.
1:13.6	Anyway, without further ado, I'm going to pass you over to Nick and this week's guest,
1:18.1	the amazing Evan Marion.
1:19.9	Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the SBO podcast.
1:23.3	We're talking to Evan Marion today, who I'm sure you guys have been checking out his new
1:27.7	course in the SBO Academy that was all about improvising and just some other really cool
1:32.2	aspects of Evan's playing. So we want to dig into that a little bit deeper and just catch up
1:38.7	with Evan and see what's been going on. Hi. Hey, man. How's it going? Hey, man. Oh, I'm good. I'm good. I'm just, it's getting cold in New York and just trying to keep the hands warm, trying to practice as much as I can, man.
1:55.2	You have a different base there to the one that you had in the course. I do. You know, I bought, I brought this one out of the closet, so to speak.
2:04.2	It's really just been sitting in a gig bag in the corner of my room.
2:08.1	It's an old Ken Smith from the late 90s.
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