Beaverton, OR Bass Guitar Lessons

From your first notes to learning groove, chords and scales and how they work, to interpreting songs in your own way, using clear and clean materials; from Blues to Jazz to whatever you want, it will all be in reach!

Bass players ALWAYS have gigs.

Time will be spent on exercises, learning songs, and on personal projects

Classical fingerstyle lends itself well to teaching bass.

I've been playing electric bass guitar for about 10 years now. Similar to guitar, I can teach either finger-style or with a pick.

Learn to read music as you play.

Want to learn how to play electric bass or upright bass? I’ll have you playing classic bass lines and grooves in no time. With tons of live, studio, and songwriting professional playing experience I’m the teacher who can help you take your bass playing to the next level. Lessons are tailored to each students specific learning styles and are also augmented for students from complete beginners, intermediate, and advanced.

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

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/feeling 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 hold down the rhythm section with a ...