My Top 3 Musical Resources – November 2025

Hey everyone,

This is the first of what will be a monthly series highlighting some of my favourite musical resources I’ve been using recently!

Shedspace

If you’re looking for an app/site to properly organise your practice and keep all your online practice resources in one place, I absolutely recommend checking out ShedSpace! I’ve recently swapped from using my notes app on macbook to using Shedspace to keep track of all my practice items as well as notes on how the vaious parts of my practice routine are progressing!

It includes a built-in metronome, practice timer, the ability to create practice plans/items and a personal library of resources you can add to! Very much recommended regardless of what instrument you play!!

https://shedspaceapp.com/

The Improvisors Path (Damian Erskine)

This book is an old favourite and one I’ve started to work on seriously again now that the site is up and running! Damian Erksine is one of my favourite bass players – incredible vocabulary, funky as hell and groove for DAYs – but also one of my favourite educators, especially on the topic of improvisation because unlike most improvisation methods, it doesn’t approach it from a purely jazz perspective, something I really appreciate and have affinity with as I enjoy improvising but do not consider myself a jazz player. In this book Damian begins with the Major Scale, then looks at the modes (major and melodic/harmonic minor), chords, rhythm, improvisation and much more! Absolutely recommended if improvisation interests you but the jazz methods have always spooked you somewhat!

https://damianerskine.com/bookstore/the-improvisors-path-book#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20study%20of,changes%2C%20fretboard%20awareness%20and%20more.

For those of you not familiar with his playing here’s a little clip of Damian playing some really tasty fretless lines with Gino Vanelli

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The SBL Groove Trainer

While I do mentor for SBL, the Groove Trainer is one of my favourite practice/teaching resources and one I use on what is more or less a daily basis. Building grooves using the drum loops especially has become a regular part of my own practice routine as part of an overall drive to write more music going into 2026!!

https://scottsbasslessons.com/groove-trainer

Feel free to share some of your own current musical resources in the comments below!!

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