Hey there! Big news for you with our new issue, out now.
Felix Pastorius, our cover star alongside his late father Jaco, has a unique job to do. He’s a bass player with an ongoing career to maintain; he has to field endless questions about his genius father, taken decades before his time; and he has to live a life with that unmistakable surname, with all the expectations it brings. We’re here to help him to fulfil those tasks, so when he sat down with us to reveal his curren...t activities and future plans, we regarded it as a privilege. Jaco remains an enigma to most of us because he died long before his life’s work was complete: the light which Felix sheds on him can’t possibly come from anyone else.
This issue covers a huge amount of ground, as is our stated mission: we go behind the scenes at Fender’s Custom Shop in California, we ask a stellar crew of bass players for their advice, and we bring you insights into pretty much every style of bass playing that exists, from reggae to jazz to metal and beyond. The gear we review in this issue ranges from the affordable to the mid-market, a deliberate move as we musicians are in a state of global insecurity when it comes to cashflow – and we maximise the opportunity to evolve our playing with the best teachers on the planet.
And there's more. See that Bass Player logo on the cover? You may already know that since 2018, this magazine and America's acclaimed Bass Player have been identical in content; well, a couple of issues from now the title of Bass Guitar magazine is changing to Bass Player UK. Don't worry, though -- the content will be the same as it is now, although we'll redesign some of the pages for a more sophisticated look and bring a couple of new writers on board. Our mission will stay exactly the same: to make you the best bass player you can be. Thanks for staying with us on the next stage of our journey through the low end 
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Grab it in print at https://bit.ly/31ouwuW and in digital at https://bit.ly/2B7xrxr. See you next month!
