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Nathan Mays

Nathan Mays

Professional bassist and bass coach ("Nathan Mays | Bass Coach") with a Master's in Music Composition from Texas State University, featured guest on the Now That's Bass podcast.

Sep 11, 2026

2:02
practicing music exactly exactly as long as they're not too expensive it's all good um sure so let's let's let's kind of wind the clock back and say to you where did your where did your journey first start with bass
2:18
Man, with bass specifically, I was 14 years old, and my friend Ryan down the street had a guitar and a bass.
2:28
And he played guitar, and so I was like, cool, I'll play bass.
2:33
And we just started playing.
2:35
We would just hang out at his house, and I would pick up his instrument, and we would just play bass.
2:41
He knew a bunch of tunes, like a bunch of System of a Down stuff.
2:45
And that was a lot of what we played at that time was System of a Down.

18 MINS LATER

20:43
Um,

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