Bass Technique Practice Made Fun & Musical Practicing bass technique is always on the menu. But it doesn’t have to
Question from a Rhythm Matrix attendee about the first “Precision Drill” in the course where the goal is to be
Effective Practice I just finished prepping every Live Practice class for September, and somewhere along the way I caught myself
The Tie Trick to deal with syncopated rhythms There’s one type of rhythm that stumps many players cold: syncopation. Something like this, from a Mitch Foreman tune called Reunion with Will Lee on bass (Gary Burton/Reunion): The Tie Trick In the Rhythm Matrix we work our way up to complex
The Notefinder This is a very powerful exercise to start you off towards knowing the notes on the fretboard. I
Practicing without the Bass: Musical Alphabet Soup Knowing the musical alphabet up, down, sideways and backwards serves us very well,
Welcome to Bass Bit #1, with an Introduction and a Free Lesson on Notes! This one is quite a bit
My first course with the online powerhouse TrueFire is out for sale now at truefire.com: Pentatonic Playground for Bass I
Counting down to the start date for the Bass Bits Videos! I am putting together a video series for you
Having fun with just some bass grooves. Enjoy! Bass grooves anyone? Just me playing some bass grooves on a variety
Tapping a Marleaux Six Tapping in Frankfurt, Musikmesse 2015 Gregor Fries of Bass the World invited me to grab a
Frequently used Cycle Chord Progression Some songs feature the entire diatonic cycle, but many feature just parts of it. In
Groove enthusiast and learning nerd.
As a bassist, I have toured/played/recorded with a variety of rock, Jazz, and funk bands, I have worked with some incredible producers (Keith Olsen) and musicians (Paul Hanson, Muriel Anderson) and I toured Brazil with Stu Hamm as a duo.
As a bass teacher, I have taught at London Bass Day, Gerald Veasley’s Bass Boot Camp, SBL, Truefire, notreble… I even ran my own music school for a few years before gigs took me back on the road.
One thing to know about me is that I teach because I am absolutely fascinated with the learning process. And I am obsessed with helping others realize their musical potential.
When I started playing bass, I excelled very quickly because I had an amazing teacher who taught me using a powerful method. This method transformed my playing so quickly that I passed a bunch of high-level university auditions and even tested out of entire classes at university even though I had been playing for only a very short time.
That’s what, many years later turned into one of my books, co-written with Wolf Wein, called “The Pattern System for the Bass Player”. I created entire systems of learning based on some of these ideas and wrote books and created courses together with Wolf. Our bass books have sold over 30,000 copies and garnered rave reviews.
I started teaching online in 2009 and have embraced technology as a powerful learning tool since then, never losing sight of the importance of providing feedback and personalized guidance to learners.
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