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You are a committed Pattern Practicer!
Have you enjoyed your Level 1 learnings? Happy to see you back for more!
The story of these classes
I first started teaching these Masterclass sessions during the pandemic. When we were done with a level, students always instantly requested a next one – each level bringing ever more tangible and measurable results and big improvements in their playing and musicality. One group went 6 levels deep, together! Over a span of two years, they thrived, expanding their musical voice, improving their soloing, and deepening their connection to the instrument and to music beyond their wildest expectations!
For a limited time only we are offering the 2023/2024 edition of Pattern System Masterclasses Levels 1, 2, 3. This fabulous group of bass players went three levels deep together. You can be part of that learning journey now!
I signed up for the next session less than 24 hours after the info was posted so that should tell you something.
WELCOME TO
The Pattern System for the Bass Player Masterclasses Level 2 & 3
More areas • More applications • Soloing strategies • Nimble fingers • Triads, four-note chords and chord progressions • Adding rhythm • Connection Exercises • Going vertical on the fretboard • “Donut Trick” for Solos
What's in Level 2:
- Using your new triad shapes over common chords
- The power of this system for diatonic chord progressions
- Concepts for creating fills all over the neck using this system
- More areas, more drills, up your fretboard fitness!
- Superwild: practicing beyond the cycle
- Video animations to help with Connection Drills
- Adding rhythm to these drills makes them sound even cooler
- More Mindblowing shortcuts this system provides you
- Improvising over neighboring keys using Ari's "Donut" method
- The Area Matrix, Area 3, and more
Triads review
Mixed motion drills and how to use them in a musical context
More on why the patterns are such an amazing shortcut
New scalar drills (harder!)
Improv with a pop track
Improv using triads
Rhythmizing scalar drills
Improvising over I IV V I using this system
The five mighty shapes for minor triads!
Improvising over neighboring keys using Ari’s “donut” method
Tips for instantly sounding like your solo tells a story
Cycle of whole steps!
Connection drills help you think ahead!
Diminished triads!
New scalar studies (sounds cool!)
Improv with minor triads
Review of the diatonic cycle
Improv over the diatonic cycle
Connection exercises for musical skills
Rhythmicizing connection exercises is a total trip! Helps your rhythmic creativity!
Improvising over new chord progressions
Diatonic cycle improv
The Area Matrix – the ultimate cheat sheet for Area Practice
Area 3!
And of course Connection drills
Improv
Area drills
Diatonic cycle drills
More on improvising using “the Donut” Concept
Review
More drills with new tracks
Prepping for the final performance
Enjoy the finals of our students! See how far they have come in just ten weeks!
What's in Level 3:
- Practicing shapes for speed
- Why triads are so cool for fills - virtuosic sounding ideas
- How improvising shapes provides never ending musical ideas
- Rhythmic templates for improv
- Open Area shedding (it's also known as "the money spot")
- Scalar runs for cool fills
- 7 creative strategies for improvising using the patterns
- Ari's "Phrase Bender" - improvising using common tones
- Four-note chords
- Scalar studies in fourths for that cool angular fusion sound
Triads through the cycle for speed
Improvising for speed
Walking bass ideas with triads
Bass solo over a drone
The cycle in both directions
Shapes for speed
Fun new improv chord progressions
Rhythmic templates
Area drills with rhythms!
Diatonic chord progressions: triad drills
Various improv
Scalar Studies for cool fills
Scalar runs for cool fills
Connection practice
7 creative ideas for improvising shapes in grooves
Diatonic connection exercises
More new improv
The major four Note Chords you must know
Improvise over A Section of “My Favorite Things”
All diatonic four-note chords
Theory Chops builder over a I IV V chord progression
Creating diatonic four note chords as diagrams using a pattern template
Various diatonic strategies
Rhythmicize the four-note chords
Finger Kung Fu for four-note chords
Knowledge Check: Dominant 7 Chords, minor 7 chords and major 7 chords in Area 1
Pattern Practice Rhythmicized Drills Cheat Sheet
Scalar studies in fourths: cool angular sound
The “Phrase Bender” – using common notes between chords for improv
More rhythmicizing improv drills with new, ever hipper templates
Free improv using common notes
Scalar studies in Fourths
Seven pattern practice strategies to drive it home
Practice chart cheat sheet
Phrase bender over a pop chord progression
Rhythmicized drills
More fun with triads, and scalar studies in fourths
Finals prep
Awesome finals by our students!
Here's What Masterclass Participants are Saying...
I love the pattern system. I am an engineer and this approach is perfect for me.
I have done the 20-unit course and now level two of the pattern system so all I know is what you have taught me.
The written homework was like coloring-for-adults and at the same time learning the fretboard and chords and intervals and much more, I loved doing it.[...]
I loved it and I am bass-hooked for life. Thank you!
I have done the 20-unit course and now level two of the pattern system so all I know is what you have taught me.
The written homework was like coloring-for-adults and at the same time learning the fretboard and chords and intervals and much more, I loved doing it.[...]
I loved it and I am bass-hooked for life. Thank you!
Pattern 1 is precisely what I needed at just the right time. This course is definitely challenging in the best sense.
Building a strong foundation and putting the bricks where they need to be, so to speak.
Setting this foundation to be able to grow as a musician and be an authentic skilled player.
I am thrilled to be in this course and will definitely enroll in Pattern 2.
I am grateful to be learning from Ari - musician and bass player and human extraordinaire.[...]
Building a strong foundation and putting the bricks where they need to be, so to speak.
Setting this foundation to be able to grow as a musician and be an authentic skilled player.
I am thrilled to be in this course and will definitely enroll in Pattern 2.
I am grateful to be learning from Ari - musician and bass player and human extraordinaire.[...]
Just a note to thank you for the great classes in your Pattern System book.
This system really can open musical doors in the best way possible.
By structuring your playing around the 5 shapes our minds can grasp this information systematically, plus the way you drip feed the exercises I started to think more musically without feeling overwhelmed!
Thank you and the team for all you do!
This system really can open musical doors in the best way possible.
By structuring your playing around the 5 shapes our minds can grasp this information systematically, plus the way you drip feed the exercises I started to think more musically without feeling overwhelmed!
Thank you and the team for all you do!
I’m amazed how fast I progressed in the Level I fretboard class.
Ari is the real deal. My mother was a musician and teacher and those finger exercises and scaler notes sound so familiar.
What really scared me was that I found those simple exercises weren’t as easy as I thought, because I never practiced like this before.
The discipline and memorization knowledge is what I really needed, and I’m getting that from Ari’s Bass Lessons.
Ari is the real deal. My mother was a musician and teacher and those finger exercises and scaler notes sound so familiar.
What really scared me was that I found those simple exercises weren’t as easy as I thought, because I never practiced like this before.
The discipline and memorization knowledge is what I really needed, and I’m getting that from Ari’s Bass Lessons.
This was the second time I took the Pattern System Level 1 course and it was incredibly worthwhile.
I picked up on a number of aspects of the pattern system that I overlooked the first time through.
It has really helped to cement the pattern system in my brain and has improved my knowledge of the fretboard (including the 5-string).
I highly recommend this course to anyone that wants a thorough knowledge of the electric bass.
I picked up on a number of aspects of the pattern system that I overlooked the first time through.
It has really helped to cement the pattern system in my brain and has improved my knowledge of the fretboard (including the 5-string).
I highly recommend this course to anyone that wants a thorough knowledge of the electric bass.
Well that was really fun! These patterns really work for my brain! Lol!
I wanted to thank you for all you have done for so many of us!
I always wanted to do music, but it seemed like life was always getting in the way!
Now that I’m officially retired (for now anyhow) I finally have the time to focus on what I love to do! [...]
When I look back I can’t believe how far I’ve come on this journey! I wouldn’t have been able to succeed like this without your guidance!
So thanks again Ari. Looking forward to the next adventure!
I wanted to thank you for all you have done for so many of us!
I always wanted to do music, but it seemed like life was always getting in the way!
Now that I’m officially retired (for now anyhow) I finally have the time to focus on what I love to do! [...]
When I look back I can’t believe how far I’ve come on this journey! I wouldn’t have been able to succeed like this without your guidance!
So thanks again Ari. Looking forward to the next adventure!
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NOTE: Even if you are an advanced player I strongly recommended you start with Level 1! When we talk about Level 1 – we mean Level 1 of the method and it sets the critical foundation for the system.
Get Instant Access to Levels 2&3
$350
Access 10 weeks of Level 2 replays and
10 weeks of Level 3 replays
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.
We use Stripe, a highly secure checkout system!
Unlock the Fretboard... Levels 2&3
- Twenty live recordings of an hour each
- Jamtracks, diagrams, PDFs with TAB
- Assignments, milestones
- Submit assignments to our FB Group
- The continuation of your pattern journey
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Questions & Answers About The Level 2 and 3 Masterclasses
You need the Level 1 Masterclasses.
Even if you are an advanced player, you want to start with Level 1 since it is Level 1 of the method.
You also need the Pattern System book, your bass, and an internet connection
International buyers click here
Not required but highly useful is our Pattern System for the Bass Player Wallchart, a poster that features all the patterns and practice aides for this system.
Intermediate level and up. These masterclasses are not suitable for beginners. Basic music theory knowledge is required and the ability to play scales and triads.
No. Beginners should start with our Beginner Path
Yes. Intermediate up to pro level players will benefit hugely from practicing this method. You will be training your musical mind, improving skills such as “thinking ahead” and “thinking in time”.
What we are doing is training to think music and translate it to the fretboard in a systematic way.
And no matter how advanced you are, start at the beginning, because this method is unique and each chapter or masterclass level builds upon the previous one. Level 1 just refers to the start of the method.
Many. One group stayed together for two years and went six levels deep. We currently have Levels 1, 2, 3 for sale, recorded in 2023 and 2024.
You can start at any time and go at your own pace. You have lifetime access to the material.
We love seeing your submissions on our private Facebook Group. You will get interaction and cheers from others who have taken this program. Go for it! Instructions to join are inside the class.
These sessions are pre-recorded, they are not live. It feels almost like you are there, though, as you learn alongside an awesome group of bassists just like you. Feel free to post your assignments into our Facebook Group!
At this time we do not offer any new live ten week masterclasses.
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.
We use secure checkout with Stripe.
Get Instant Access to Levels 2&3
$350
Access 10 weeks of Level 2 replays and
10 weeks of Level 3 replays
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.
We use Stripe, a highly secure checkout system!
Unlock the Fretboard... Levels 2&3
- Twenty live recordings of an hour each
- Jamtracks, diagrams, PDFs with TAB
- Assignments, milestones
- Submit assignments to our FB Group
- The continuation of your pattern journey