Upright Bass Lessons in Courtland. Amazing Teachers.

I expect my students to learn the basic fundamentals of the Upright Bass. They will learn how to position themselves with the instruments and also how to utilize the instrument. They will also learn how to read music, improvise, and practice.

Students are free to take both upright and bass guitar lessons interchangeably.

The lessons will be focused on: reading (notation and charts); improvisation; bass lines; bow; technique; learning tunes; ear training; music theory.

My classes are very flexible when it comes to what the student wants. I can go from just teaching very basic bass playing to advanced harmonic concepts and jazz improvisation. On the first class, I give the student the choice of controlling our lessons materials about what they want to learn. Or the student can choose to let me control our classes, in which I will bring my own materials and ideas in which we should work and will go through the whole academic process of learning music.

I teach blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, country and some swing. Ive been playing for 10 years professionally in many venues around the east coast. My degree is what amounts to a double major double minor in Jazz piano/Recording engineering and jazz and classical guitar and having toured and played as a jazz pianist and being around and playing with so many upright players it was a natural progression for me. (on piano we learn to walk bass lines like bass players)

I have been performing on Upright Bass for more than three decades in both the classical and jazz realms. I have both a classical and jazz performance degree.

The foundation of my teaching is the Smandl method. I also have a large library of classical and jazz books as well as tunes I have transcribed or lesson material I have written myself.

Let me help you get started on bass or refine your skills.