Nathan East - One Of The Top Bass Players In The World With Over 2000 Credits

Music Insights With Niclas Jeppsson

English - October 21, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 116 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Nathan East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music with over 2000 credits to his name. He has recorded, performed and co-written songs with artists such as Eric Clapton, Daft Punk, George Harrison, Phil Collins, Michael Jackson, Toto and many others.

It was a real pleasure talking to Nathan and delving deeper into what made him such a successful session musician, his cramp inducing bass-line from Footloose, how success leaves clues, meditation, magic and much much more.

There are a lot of useful tips from Nathan that you can apply to your own career as a musician so please enjoy!

In this interview, Nathan spoke about:

• Nathan’s baseline for Footloose and how it always made me cramp up when playing it live

• How he started playing bass

• How Nathan set himself up for success as a session musician with over 2000 credits

• What he listens to before laying down his bass tracks

• Learning to meditate from George Harrison and Nathan’s meditation routine

• How success leaves clues and being mentored by Quincy Jones

• Being a magician

• Life in lockdown

And much, much more!

Check out Nathan’s website:

https://nathaneast.com

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