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American electric bass guitar player
Musical artist
Bill "The Buddha" Dickens
is an American
electric bass guitar
player.
Dickens has played
Pat Metheny
,
George Michael
,
Joe Zawinul
,
Janet Jackson
,
Grover Washington, Jr.
,
Chaka Khan
,
Mary J. Blige
,
Freddie Hubbard
,
Al Di Meola
,
Dennis Chambers
,
Steve Morse
,
Randy Newman
and
The Hooters
.
[1]
[2]
From 1983 to 1999 participated in three recording sessions of
Ramsey Lewis
:
Les Fleurs
,
A Classic Encounter
and
Urban Renewal
[3]
He performed with
Victor Wooten
,
Steve Bailey
, and
Oteil Burbridge
on the concert "The Day The Bass Players Took Over The World".
[4]
Dickens usually performs using
extended-range basses
, (or "ERBs"), which are electric bass guitars with more range (usually meaning more strings, but sometimes additional frets are added for more range) than the "standard" 4-string bass guitar. Bill Dickens is best known for playing
funk
(especially speed funk).
Books
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- Bass Beyond Limits: Advanced Solo and Groove Concepts
, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., 1998,
ISBN
0-7692-6493-X
- Funk Bass and Beyond
, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., 2003,
ISBN
0-7579-1689-9
Videos
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- The Bill Dickens Collection
(DVD), Warner Bros. Publications, 2003
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