California, KY Bass Guitar Lessons

I teach the fundamentals of electric bass, including rhythm and lead bass techniques

I offer bass guitar lessons for the beginner to intermediate student specializing in rock and country, both classic and modern.

I played bass in jazz combo for about 4 years. I can teach hand techniques, chord progression approaches, and how to solo/slap bass.

Bass technique for beginner to advanced beginners in blues, rock, pop, singer/songwriter and folk music

I believe music lessons should be fun and engaging for students. I am excited to take you to the next level, whether you are an absolute beginner, intermediate, or advanced student. If you are interested in learning classical guitar, rock, jazz, heavy metal, or polka!

It is my goal as a teacher to give you the tools to play music but more importantly to create music.

My Teaching Philosophy

Left Hand-
Scales and arpeggios our the bedrock of music. They are the foundation of everything harmonically and melodically. We will begin with learning our major, minor and pentatonic scales and corresponding arpeggios. Once we have an understanding of those we will delve into our modes and more “exotic” scales.

Right Hand-
The right hand is our time machine. It gives us the ability to play in time and with groove and feel. We will work on rhythmic studies string crossings and practicing with a metronome. Remembering music is harmony, Melody and rhythm working as one.

For those who are new to playing music the hardest thing for some to master is rhythm/time keeping. It is the black and white right or wrong of the music world. Often times our want to progress quickly is hampered by skipping over the basic building blocks of rhythm and ...

I have a good 4 years of experience using my band performance guitar abilities, and knowledge of music theory/production towards bass technique and practice. I understand the role a bass should play in most pop/funk/soul/rock/reggae/alternative/blues settings, and I work with students on right hand finger technique, holding rhythm and staying in the pocket, theory and scales, and learning songs is a great benchmark to cover all of those essentials.

My goal as a teacher is to give you the facility to express yourself through music. The key parts to developing this facility are:

1. theory -- if you know your theory, you know the best way to express your idea without having to think about it
2. technique -- the last thing you want is for your technique to hinder your ability to express your idea. Having good technique lets your ideas flow naturally

When you take lessons with me, you get out of it what you put in. Your job as student is to be honest with what you expect to achieve and my job as teacher is to give you the tools to achieve it

I've played bass for over 10 years, and studied bass at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

The bass is an amazing instrument. It lies somewhere inbetween the drums and guitar and holds the band together. Its the foundation for the music and everyone is relying on the bass playing to have great time/feel when playing, and to know in and out the forms and direction of the music. Bass acumen as my teacher Danny Morris at Berklee College of Music used to say. In order to play bass, you need to have a great sense of time and be able to play grooves and each note with feeling. Its great to know your Chords, Scales, and Theory, so that you know the possibilities and have a sense of where the music is going. I like to teach various styles and get my students playing anything from Rock to Soul, Blues Funk, Motown, R&B, Country, Latin, Jazz, etc. The more genres you are comfortable in, the more you will work as a bass player. My goal is to use a balance and combination of the aforementioned material and get you grooving and feeling confident enough to hold down the rhythm section ...