Bass

Private Bass Lessons

The beginning student will learn to identify all four strings. Reading is introduced in commonly used areas of the fingerboard. Understanding the role of the instrument in an ensemble setting is always stressed.

Many styles are explored including: Rock, Blues, Funk, Pop, as well as Jazz, including the techniques that apply to those idioms, i.e.: walking bass, pop and slap for funk, and general knowledge of outlining chord structures.

Intermediate and advanced students will explore more rhythmically and harmonically complex styles of music such as Jazz and Fusion through the use of chord scales, substitions, and melodic development, as well as general theory and technique that applies directly to the material at hand. Applying these tools to tunes as well as ear training via learning songs from the record are stressed at the intermediate and advanced levels.