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Say goodbye to rote learning, practicing mindlessly and endless repetition
and hello to the personal guidance that gets you PRACTICING PROPERLY and PLAYING fast, freely, and all over the fretboard!
When it comes to practicing, these are common mistakes I see bassists make:
Imagine instead a scenario where...
In this unique online format you practice along with Ari and Ari-trained teachers:
Whether you’re a complete beginner picking up your first bass guitar for the first time, a frustrated hobbyist looking to break through a plateau, or a band player eager to turn heads at your next gig, this membership is for you.
Because practicing correctly is the superpower that delivers fast results!
What exactly is in this Practice membership?
A wide variety of Live practice sessions for various levels
Practice live 18 times a month
Join as many classes as you like!
Some of our advanced students join every single class, even the beginner ones. They know that a good practice session is a good practice session!
Tune in twice a month, as Ari sets the tone with her Groove Classes.
Ari offers easier and tougher versions of these drills during class.
If you have trouble with some drills or simply want more practice, tune in on Tuesday for “Tuesdays with Tracie” where Tracie goes over the same material with a beginner twist!
And on Fridays, practice again with Al, who will practice it with you again once more, adding in variations and twists to keep you working with the material in ever new ways!
45 minutes jampacked with fun drills:
More practice on Ari’s Monday class with teacher Tracie!
Our Teacher Tracie will review form a beginner angle, practice more, and help you in any way needed.
Bring your questions, and practice some more, with focus!
More practice on Ari’s Monday class, with teacher Al!
Our Teacher Al will guide you through more variations of Ari’s Monday class: practice with focus, doing a few more variations with Al’s expert guidance!
Practice beginner friendly drills with Ari-trained teachers!
You will work on programs put together by Ari and presented at a comfortable pace by patient and attentive tutors!
This is eartraining, bass in hand!
Using Ari’s six favorite paths of training your ear you will train your ear properly so you can ditch the TAB an jam with your friends.
Some drills we do:
You know your theory, you got good technique and solid rhythm. Now let’s work on having strong footing of these skills all over the fretboard. These sessions dig deep into your musicality and expression.
Prerequisites are either reading the first three chapters of the Pattern book or watching our recorded Pattern System Level 1 Masterclasses (included with your membership!)
Join Ari for Open Pattern Practice up to two times a month.
With the Pattern System you learn to …
To get you ready for this:
Masterclass Level 1, read up to CHapter 3 in the book.
You will learn” soloing, triads all over the fretboard, how to make your fills shine….
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.
I also utilize the power of learning in groups: our first cohort with volunteer coaches ran in 2018, and Masterclasses started in 2020.
✅ Regular Live Sessions (up to 5 a week)
✅ Archives with 100s of Live Practice sessions
✅ 60+ and counting EarTraining Mondays
✅ 50 Learn-from-the-songs sessions
✅ Sessions of Beginner Masterclasses
✅ Sessions of Pattern System Masterclasses (Levels 1, 2, 3)
✅ Sessions of Easy Jazz Masterclasses
(Levels 1, 2)
✅ Musician’s Tech Tools
✅ Members get 50% off our Courses and Cohorts
We offer a no-questions-asked money back guarantee so your commitment is risk free for 14 days.
Try it on for size and you’re not completely convinced that this practice membership is right for you, we will promptly refund your money.
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1. You will learn how to practice effectively
It’s not the quantity of practice that matters most, but the quality.
Practicing does not just mean repetition and rote learning for hours on end hoping for the best. Rather, Ari leads you through an effective and focused session on the bass in each session and teaches you the art of effective practicing in a distraction-free and structured zone.
2. Learn your favorite bass lines and go beyond the bass line
It is very easy these days to grab TAB off youtube and simply follow along. With Ari, however, learning the (parts of the) song is more like a means to a bigger end, namely to use these bass lines as vehicles for musical growth, as springboards for learning about theory, rhythm, technique. This way of learning brings all these foundational skills to life as they start to make sense in their actual musical context.
3. Theory and Improv, Groove and Technique
Ari will analyze the theory and rhythms behind the song with you and examine various technical challenges. She makes specific drills out of all these elements that have you learning the song in a while new depth.
Why and how exactly is this bass line working? How can you reliably give it that same feel? What happens if we change details of phrasing or the perception of the subdivision? Or what about reharmonizing sections?
4. New skills on your creative shelf
Ari has developed signature drills that enable you to slowly develop and nurture your personal creativity. Exercises like her Reduction, Overlays or drills using rhythmic templates open enough guardrails to assure it “sounds like you know what you are doing” while opening up creative space for you to explore at the same time.
5. Whether you practice along live or in the archives, you will always spend a productive, well-rounded session on the bass you can feel great about!
No more poking about various courses that are not clear on what to work on and how to work on it. Contrary to what many believe, music learning is not linear. It requires a lot of smart repetition, skillful variation and paying attention to various details. The drills Ari does with you are the drills that help you dig deep to find your musical voice. This is high level rapid results practice and it works for players of all levels.
After a quick warmup of fingers, body, ears and mind, Ari leads you through a few Finger Kung Fu drills (those are her technique exercises). They are typically related to a challenging bass line or a theme of the month, addressing common technical hurdles of speed and agility. Using her PORA method, she helps you focus.
Then, Ari works some theory concept through the fretboard, be it inspired by a song, a concept or a creative idea you can use for fills.
Then, Ari will also apply special groove learning techniques such as her “Reductions” (what makes this groove special?), “Overlays” (how to apply this groove to related situations), “What Ifs” (real-life scenarios from jams and gigs) and other drills that are designed to sharpen your musical instincts and give you confidence.
In EarTraining Mondays, you will practice Ari’s seven favorite paths to train your ear; what’s exciting is that this is eartraining with bass in hand!
Rather than doing ear training via isolated identification of intervals and chords such as apps have you do, Ari puts it into musical and bass specific contexts.
She shows you what to listen for, how to listen for detail and how to listen for “the gist of it”. Many drills involve improvisation and backing tracks.
She offers variations for different levels and incorporates rhythms, pitches, chords, scales, melodies. Most interesting is: what is the effect of certain musical sounds and how can you use them creatively in a bass situation?
As soon as you join you get instant access to our vast library of archived live sessions.
To join live, check our calendar and RSVP if you’d like a personal reminder sent to you. At the time of the live event click the zoom link on your dashboard (also in your email if you chose the RSVP option).
Everyone is muted and you can choose to have your camera on or not.
Ari guides you through a well-rounded practice session, including a fun warm up. Simply practice along – you can hear yourself, but nobody else can.
It’s very interactive, you can ask questions and play for feedback whenever Ari opens the floor.
With Ari’s multi-cam setup, you will see closeups of her fingerings and fretboard from every critical angle.
With all of Ari’s sessions, you receive study materials, jam tracks, PDFs, plus access to a recording of the session to review afterward.
that’s it! Even tablets or smartphones work, but computers offer better audio quality. If you have an audio interface and want to go fancy, go for it, but simple works well, too.
The calendar shows what level an event is best suited for.
To help you assess your level we have a test for you and guidelines that describe our level ratings.
Our archives are chock full of resources for various levels. Just find your level and hit play!
Beginners will love our 20 hour beginner series which starts at zero.
Advanced players can enjoy over 30 hours of advanced pattern system masterclasses.
Intermediate players will find hundreds of hours of
In these live sessions you spend a highly productive session each time. This is quality practice over quantity practice.
The best way to support yourself is to make the regular live sessions a staple or watch and re-watch the recordings.
You are welcome and encouraged to practice in addition, but even if you don’t do that and just show up and practice along or simply press play, your learning curve is reliably headed in the right direction!
The kind of practice you do here is so engaging, motivating and fun that you are effortlessly forming a solid habit!
Yes! All of our PDFs have sheet music as well as TAB and chords. Reading is a great skill to have for a musician, and you will practice it in several of our sessions, but if you don’t know it yet, you can follow along using the TAB or imitate in the beginner sessions.
Only if you want to!
When you first enter the meeting, all participants will be automatically muted. Ari and the other teachers present and you play along and can hear her and yourself. Nobody else can hear you unless you hit the unmute button. Ari may ask for volunteers, or you may raise your hand if you have a question or need help.
The EarConfidence Course is excellent for self-study, while the live events provide hands-on training, examples and applications.
Unlike most apps or eartraining programs, that focus on interval identification for ear training, our EarTraining live classes simulate real playing situations! They provide light bulb moments, and creative breakthroughs and give you confidence as a player.
EarTraining is vital training for any musician. And it’s fun, too, as with Ari, you have our favorite tool – the bass – in hand!
It’s marked in the calendar who is teaching. Not all sessions are with Ari. However, all sessions and all content is put together by Ari (sometimes together with her partner Wolf). You get consistent teaching by either Ari herself or carefully trained and qualified teachers.
Courses are dedicated to a particular topic and are for self-study.
Practice events are well-rounded practice sessions, either one-offs, or mini-series centered around a song or particular topic.
Their main purpose is to ensure you get a well-rounded practice session that draws from all of Ari’s methods.
Sessions with Ari are recorded and archived.
Sessions with Ari-trained teachers (especially the ones that provide additional training on a session that Ari already presented and that you will find in the archives) are not always included in the archives.
Sometimes you simply “had to be there” to receive personal support!
With literally hundreds of hours of archived live sessions you will not run out of practice sessions anytime soon!
Yes, you can start and stop your membership anytime. Just go into your account and hit cancel to stop membership. Your membership will remain active for the remainder of the current membership cycle, and no new payments will be incurred.
Yes. You may purchase blocks of four months at a time for a one-time payment. After four months you will simply lose access.
Our membership is covered by a 14 day guarantee. Just email us within 14 days of signing up and we will refund you your investment!
Once you are a member you can start and stop your membership with one click from your account menu.
Unmute yourself and ask away. Volunteer for a drill, if you like, no perfection required.
Learn from the questions others ask that you didn't even know you had.
Ever needed a push to show up? We got you! Sync up with our calendar or RSVP for reminders and you will be sure to have your scheduled rendez-vous with your bass front of mind. Tune up! It's Monday, bass o'clock!
Have you ever tried to practice in earnest just to end up hopping from one thing that's too hard to the next that's confusing back to playing the things you already knew? Then you need help to practice with focus & efficiency!
Have you ever played with others who are better than you and felt how this lifted you up? Practice along with Ari and friends, feel the possibilities and hang out at the edge of your abilities. Because that is where the magic happens!
It's a thrill to learn your favorite bass lines, but any free YouTube or TAB can hook you up with rote learning. Ari takes it much further: play in the style of, play variations, make it your own, learn creatively, not just verbatim!
Sometimes all you need is the right nudge in the right direction. Ari can identify for you what your strengths and weaknesses are and how to fix them to get instantly better payoff for your playing!
Anyone who:
wants to get better reliably and steadily without stress or worry about homework, finals, or quizzes
simply wants to log on and spend a productive, fun and focused hour on the bass!
wants to get to the bottom of why some things haven’t been working yet in their playing
has precious little time for this and wants to make sure it’s well spent, productive, appropriate for your level and going to help you improve!
is done constantly having to wonder if what you are working on is the right thing! If you get stuck, ask Ari for guidance. She can point you to resources in the archives to fill a specific gap and she can even create drills on the spot that may just solve your problem!
is ready to go beyond TAB and to become a musician
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