Ari's Reading System
Master reading music the Ari-way!
Based on shapes and understanding, get confident quickly all over the fretboard.
Let reading become intuitive and even deepen your pocket!
Why learn to read?
By learning to read an entirely new world opens up:
- Learn new repertoire and styles
- Access tunes in a new way
- Read not only bass lines, but melodies, too!
- Transcribe your favorite songs and make great shortcut charts!
- Write your own bass lines
- An entirely new level of gigs can come your way!
Why learn to read with Ari?
- Part of a system that builds confidence via understanding
- Fun and instantly usable
- No more cumbersome spot placing of notes
- Rhythm reading and pitch reading made easy
- Feel the notes, no need to constantly look at the fretboard
Discover a revolutionary approach to mastering music reading, where theory and fretboard knowledge seamlessly converge. Ari’s reading system is intuitive, fast and complete.
This system aligns perfectly with Ari and Wolf’s other courses and systems, be it the Rhythm Matrix or the Pattern System. All systems go hand in hand and reinforce each other.
This reading method will build your confidence and skills to navigate the fretboard with ease. Whether you’re aiming to enhance your reading fluency or prepare you for the Pattern System, this approach sets you up for smooth, musical playing across the fingerboard.
No need to have mastered the theory and no need to have mastered the pattern system or rhythm matrix.
All these systems reinforce each other. Suitable for low intermediate and up. For this class, you need to know your intervals, that’s it!
Ari's Reading System
👎 No more “translating notes into note names” and then trying to “find the note name on the fretboard” – which is a terribly round-about way to learn reading.
👍 Instead, use the shape-based theory knowledge you gleaned from Ari’s Theory teachings and put them into action!
🤩 Ari’s innovative system transforms the reading process into an intuitive and enjoyable experience, allowing you to read fluently without constantly glancing at the fretboard.
By integrating reading directly with your understanding of the fretboard, this method makes reading music feel natural and effortless and achieves more than just reading proficiency: it reinforces fretboard knowledge and the theory you are learning.
This is an extraordinary opportunity to study reading LIVE with Ari. Recordings available and future upgrades included for free!
live sessions are Mondays
June 16 to August 25, 2025 (no class 6-23) 11:30 AM (PST) / 2:30 PM (EST)
June 16 to August 25, 2025 (no class 6-23) 11:30 AM (PST) / 2:30 PM (EST)
It's for you if you are ready to...
- Add an awesome skill to your bass tool kit: reading!
- Reinforce theory, fretboard knowledge and rhythm in musical contexts
- Prerequisites: know your intervals
- Prerequisites: know your intervals
$355
Installment plans available: click Affirm during checkout.
We offer a no-questions-asked money back guarantee so your commitment is risk free for 30 days. Try it on for size and you’re not completely convinced that this course is right for you, I will promptly refund your money.
Founding Members have access to this course through their active membership.
There are no refunds on the cohort portion (when offered) because space is limited.
Our checkout is secure with Stripe!
Reading the Ari Way...
- Reinforces your theory knowledge
- Makes you internalize the fretboard (read without looking!)
- Means you read phrases, not spot place notes
- Is easy!
What's included
- 10 LIVE sessions plus recordings
- Jamtracks, PDFs, diagrams
- Pattern System Lite
- All future course upgrades
Traditional Methods
Ari's Method
Not tailored to the symmetric bass fretboard
Made for the bass fretboard; shape based learning
Spot placing every note is cumbersome and difficult
Reading by intervals is much easier
Examples make no attempt at being musical
Reading examples have musical meaning from day 1
Not tied to learning the fretboard
Directly tied to learning the fretboard
Passive learning through just reading
Active learning, tying in improvising, writing, composing
Mostly reading score, devoid of chord symbols
Integrating a wide variety of charts bassists face
It's for you if you are ready to...
- Add an awesome skill to your bass tool kit: reading!
- Reinforce theory, fretboard knowledge and rhythm in musical contexts
- Prerequisites: know your intervals
- Prerequisites: know your intervals
$355
Installment plans available: click Affirm during checkout.
We offer a no-questions-asked money back guarantee so your commitment is risk free for 30 days. Try it on for size and you’re not completely convinced that this course is right for you, I will promptly refund your money.
Founding Members have access to this course through their active membership.
There are no refunds on the cohort portion (when offered) because space is limited.
Our checkout is secure with Stripe!
Reading the Ari Way...
- Reinforces your theory knowledge
- Makes you internalize the fretboard (read without looking!)
- Means you read phrases, not spot place notes
- Is easy!
What's included
- 10 LIVE sessions plus recordings
- Jamtracks, PDFs, diagrams
- Pattern System Lite
- All future course upgrades