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All Courses, Pattern Practice, Advanced, Rapid Results Practice, Latest Practice Sessions, One-off Sessions
Time for the ultimate practice of practices: Pattern Practice. This system will open up the patterns of music for you. To prepare, please read Chapters 2 and 3 in your book and watch at least one Masterclass (included in your membership).
All Courses, Pattern Practice, Intermediate, Advanced, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Time for the ultimate practice of practices: Pattern Practice. This system will open up the patterns of music for you. To prepare, please read Chapters 2 and 3 in your book and watch at least one Masterclass (included in your membership).
All Courses, Pattern Practice, Advanced, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Time for the ultimate practice of practices: Pattern Practice. This system will open up the patterns of music for you. To prepare, please read Chapters 2 and 3 in your book and watch at least one Masterclass (included in your membership).
All Courses, Beginner, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Easy-going, beginner-friendly one-off practice sessions and mini series with Tracie! Finger Kung Fu, theory, application, fun!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, Rapid Results Practice, Latest Practice Sessions, One-off Sessions
Easy-going, beginner-friendly one-off practice sessions and mini series with Tracie! Finger Kung Fu, theory, application, fun!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Easy-going, beginner-friendly one-off practice sessions and mini series with Tracie! Finger Kung Fu, theory, application, fun!
All Courses, Beginner, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Easy-going, beginner-friendly one-off practice sessions and mini series with Tracie! Finger Kung Fu, theory, application, fun!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, Latest Practice Sessions, Mini Series
Unlock the secrets of rhythmic groove for bass players. Learn to sync your timing, improve your feel, and add depth to your playing with rhythmic variations.
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, Mini Series
Discover how to break out of the box by creating your own microvariations for grooves and fills. Learn to add your unique flair and enhance your bass playing with subtle yet powerful changes.
All Courses, Latest Live Events, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, Mini Series
Bass - not the fish? Wrong! October is scales month and we have a month of fun with the why, how, and what to do with scales!
All Courses, Latest Live Events, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, Mini Series
Practicing triads and chords - the building blocks for many bass lines! Midnight Hour Duck Dunn Beatles Ob-La-Di Little Birds Bob Marley Aston Barrett The Clash Steve Miller Abracada Hound Dog Presley Drifters Boardwalk Cliff Burton Papa Roach
All Courses, Latest Live Events, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, Mini Series
Welcome to September! The month and the epic grooves of funk, soul and disco and the styles these grooves influenced. Young MC Flea Busta Move Bernard Edwards Verdine White Earth Wind and Fire EWF Sugarhill Gang Good Times Rapper's Delight
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, Mini Series
This Groove Creation Mini Series is applied theory, rhythm, musicality training, and more. Fun but doing heavy lifting as we also discuss groups of 3 over 4 and some pedaling!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Advanced, Mini Series
An iconic bass line with cool dead notes, syncopated rhythms and more. This one is fast, but we approach it step by step, we loop sections and discuss ways to simplify. Get your hair bands out, it's a fun one! John Taylor
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
We are practicing Hank Mobley's "Gimme That Feelin'". A fun, jammy, bluesy (with quirks!) straight jazz tunes that gives us some great opportunity to practice our reading skills. Also: groove variations, improv and more!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
Walk right this way, as it's not only funk that presents challenging sixteenth note rhythms with dead notes. This time, Walk This Way by Aerosmith gets us rocking with syncopated bluesy coolness.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Advanced, Mini Series
Joe Dart's epic groove on Lost my Treble Long Ago (by Fearless Flyers) gives us some great technical challenges to work with. In the advanced session, we will take a look at how he builds this cool groove into a groove solo (inspired by live version)
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
158 and assorted challenges, this time inspired by a Black Eyed Peas song, so let’s get it started in here! Also: to one finger per fret it or not?
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
I wonder if you are ready to “do your thing”, you know, James Brown Style!? Iconic bass courtesy of both Fred Thomas and Bootsy Collins. The goal becomes to play more freely using these funky sixteenth-note shapes. Bootsy varies this a lot.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
Pass the Peas from the album "Food for Thought" gives us lots to work on: rhythm, feel, what makes it funky... as always we are looking to learn far beyond the Song!
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Advanced, Mini Series
In 9 sessions, we talk about walking in 3, chords, melody, multi-bass collabs, and solo bass playing using this song from the 1959 musical The Sound of Music (Rodgers/Hammerstein).
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
"So, what if the tune has only two changes? So, what if it's all modal? Or if for once the bass plays the melody? So What is up this week - feel the Kind of Blue vibe and learn this iconic standard that puts the bass front and center
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
I Wish you all will enjoy the awesome, ultra groovy, slidey goodness that is I Wish by Stevie! This "Songs in the Key of Life" classic is sure to capture your desire to be able to groove just as hard as Nathan Watts. Enjoy!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
Are you a Soul (Wo)Man? An epic and iconic groove with more cool slides to practice and more rhythmic practice. Duck Dunn has Dunn it again. Fun song, basically not too hard, yet 16th notes at 112 warrant a bit of kung fu! Looking forward to...
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
Analyzing classic bass lines from (and in the style of) Duck Dunn. Simplicity combined with emphasis on upbeats make these lines so good!
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions, Mini Series
Is it Jazz? Is it RnB? Is it a Blues? Is it a Bossa? The answer is yes. This Joe Henderson tune is a favorite in many jam sessions (it's easy for the horns and fun for the rhythm section). Let's talk a cool rhythm, effective jamming, nailing pesky...
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
One of the most iconic bass lines of all time. We can learn so much from its simplicity - and how making tiny variations can keep it interesting but oh, so funky!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
Whether you want to learn that one for its cool funky slap riff or the fun groove, it's a favorite in many cover band programs!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
A true classic rock song that features a driving, rhythmic bass line over a standard blues form.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
What to do when the rhythm is tough? Here is a challenging gospel tune for us to tackle this question. One of the reasons why is a rhythmic syncopation that is more often than not done a slight bit differently. Let's explore!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Advanced, Mini Series
A song from the legendary 1977 Songs in the Key of Life album with some mighty funky bass from Mr. Nathan Watts! Try this one for challenging funkiness!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, Intermediate, Mini Series
"The Tide Is High" 1967 rocksteady John Holt/Duke Reid “The Paragons” from Jamaica. We are taking on the Blondie version.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
An iconic song driven by an iconic bass line that features octaves with string crossings at a fairly quick tempo.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Learn how to swing a tune like Fever.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
This is an easy-going tune with some great opportunities to practice the modal interchange! There will be soloing, reductions, overlays, and more, based on this tune.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
Ready to Shine? Here we go.... get ready! Amazing bass line using tenths and more!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
People Say it's time to get your Funk on as we will do not just one but two Meters tunes this week! As always we learn the tune and go way beyond it. These tunes are a great study for • what makes funky funky • straight versus shuffled 16th notes..
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
One of our students posted himself and his band having a go at this tricky tune. Great technique workout and fun quirks in the bass line! Lots to work on here.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
A beautiful bass line and a great example of an effective bass solo part that's become as much a characteristic of the song as the other parts of it. Enjoy!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
An iconic tune on bass. Some love it, some hate it, but you cannot evade the fact that that bass intro is just amazing. Don't forget the open strings!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
I love the feel of that bass line! Just the right note length makes this one shine. Oh and did you knwo that it was meant as a parody? Some songs become hits and it wasn't planned!
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
This Jazz standard is a favorite at jazz jams. If you have never done a Jazz tune, give it a go!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Mini Series
This one works not only your fingers but also your smile muscles!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Stand by me - a great easy going tune in a single session. We had so much fun we went a little longer. I don't think you'll mind...
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate
You are under the gun with this one - Peter Gunn that is. 2 classes, a good choice for an easy-going practice day!
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
A student requested that one. Lovely tune!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, Intermediate, Mini Series
Sources do not specify whether it's Tommy Cogbill or Mike Leech on bass, but they do specify it's Fender bass. A cool very fun tune that you will surely encounter on a jam.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Amazing bass line and a beautiful bass solo. You want to be a fly (or should I say flea?) on the wall on this one. Bring your bass!
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
"Minor Swing" is a gypsy jazz tune composed by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. It was recorded by The Quintet of the Hot Club of France in 1937. It is considered to be one of his signature compositions. (Wikipedia)
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
A beautiful and familiar bossa, you will learn the grooves and the melody; Pull off Permutations prepare you for the cool embellishments to play the head, and you will be soloing using a guidetone line!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Fun song, fun story, and a great bass line! One session, sure to challenge your technique!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, One-off Sessions
Where major and minor collide. Seems so simple but has some cool unexpected twists!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Practicing triads never stirred up so much joy! Single easy-going session.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
We are going pop today and talk about the power of eighth notes in that context. If you like Adele, you will enjoy this single-class session.
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
A surprise hit in 1967 and still going strong today. Learn this cool Zawinul tune and suggest it at a jam!
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Advanced, One-off Sessions
We take a look at the challenging bits. Not a comprehensive study of the tune, but lots of tips for the technically challenging bits
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
As beautiful a love as a tune. Will come your way in jams often.
All Courses, Jazz, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
A classic.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
A must-know tune that puts a smile on everyone's face. Enjoy!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
That opening riff will work your technique! If you want to rock out while getting a good work out, this is the one!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
A student was struggling with the bass line of that one, so I created a bunch of drills. Great training! One single session.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
A longer form exploration of this tune. Busts your chops!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, One-off Sessions
Theory never rocked so hard!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, Advanced, One-off Sessions
Expand your horizons with this challenging and cool bass line. A student asked for help with stamina for this long jam song and for getting this one up to tempo. No kidding, great training!
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, One-off Sessions
A superfun tune by the Jamaicans! Enjoy! One single beginner friendly session.
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Up for that tricky bit in the beginning? Get ready for a finger twister! (And yes, that's how Cliff Williams plays it!)
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Beginner, One-off Sessions
Beginner friendly and fun...
All Courses, Song-Based Practice, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Ari teaches Silent Night as a solo bass performance.
All Courses, Intermediate, Mini Series
The master of bass lines long before the bass even existed... enjoy an ever growing series of Bach pieces! Easier entry points, TAB provided!
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Sound Classes (tense or harmonious or open)
Call and Response ear training
Pros and cons of Ear Training Apps
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Sound Classes (tense or pretty or bland)
Chord Progressions
Identifying scales
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Diatonic Chord Progressions
Cadences (Identifying keys)
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Sound Classes (tense or harmonious or bland)
Building Chords
Chord Progressions
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Improvising over F#m track (call and response)
Hearing Chord Progressions
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Hearing: Chord Progressions
Hearing: Diatonic notes or not
Modes discussion
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional ear training - major/minor scales
Inversions
Hearing Chord Progressions
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
The effect rhythm has on perceiving pitches
Call and Response Drills - and identifying the theory behind the notes
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Sus Chords
Rhythm (how it affects how we hear sounds)
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Sounds classes (harmonious, bland, tense)
Short sequences of melodies and putting them in context (different roots)
Playing in the context of the key
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional ear training - hearing scale degrees
Improvising - landing on the different scale degrees on downbeat
Inversions
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
How repeating notes retain their sound qualities
How intervals can get “milder” with the addition of 3rds and 6ths
Improvising over I-VI using different starting notes
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional ear training - hearing scale degrees
A touch of reharmonization
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Rhythm drills
How pitch influences perceptions of rhythm (and vice versa)
Common chord progressions in a variety of voicings
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Singing with the bass
Sus chords (sus2 and sus4) & bassist’s role
Functional ear training- hearing intervals as they relate to the root
Major vs minor chords- context makes the difference
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
All about the modes; down and dirty tips
Functional ear training exercises
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Secondary dominant (substitutions) - hearing and using
Functional ear training - identifying intervals
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Recognizing chord progressions
Tetrachord explanation and application; plus hearing the scale degrees
Improv over a dom7 chord using a minor pentatonic, and mixolydian
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional Ear Training - Start with root and identify scale degree being played
Functional Ear Training - hearing intervals in your head / singing them
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Reviewing sound classes (sweet, tense, open)
Functional ear training: Identifying and hearing intervals (incl overtone series)
A symetric scale (mode) - Dorian
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Identifying Rhythms
Hearing the different sounds classes: sweet, tense open
Tritone (bluesy sound class)
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Chord progressions & hearing the different inversions
Hearing how notes sound within chord progressions
Tips on knowing which scale notes work best in chord progressions
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Looking at repeating intervals
Contrasting diminished vs augmented, vs reg major/minor
Chord progressions and hearing the different inversions
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Working scale degrees
Noodle-Stay drill
Practicing different tonalities as they go with D minor scale
Rhythm and prioritizing the downbeat
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional ear training in the context of a tune
Tips for minor solos - start on the downbeat with any scale degree (ex 6)
Sus chords, major vs minor
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional ear training with a variety of tracks: major, minor, lydian, melodic minor
Improv using 1, 2 and 3 notes with the scale fabric
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional Ear Training: hearing sounds in context is everything (more than just interval training)
Improvising over chord progressions using guidetone lines
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional ear training: Practicing 2 random intervals and adding a third one
Rhythmic studies - feeling the funkiness of 16th notes
Value of writing down rhythms
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Learning a song by ear
Recognizing 2-5-1’s and how to use/add it and other substitutions to a chord progression
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional ear training
Chord progressions using modal interchanges borrowed chords
Improvising over I-IV starting on the 3rd
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Rhythmic studies
A Look into the Modes and how they relate to the roots
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Rhythmic Studies
Common Notes between chords
Advanced functional ear training with 2 notes
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Rhythmic dictation using 3 and swung
Using triplets
Using skips on different beats
Recognizing scales in context of a chord/track
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Soloing over a major 7 chord
Differences of Rhythm
Rhythms can sound different based on context (what comes after)
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Review of lydian versus ionian
Hearing the downbeat note - third=stable, 6=colorful
Finding the parent scale of lydian
Coming up with grooves for a kick pattern
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Blues Scale
Mixolydian
Major Blues Scale - improv using dom 7 chords
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Context is everything
Improvising over min7 chords - starting on various notes (eg 2, b3, and 4)
Recognizing differences with pentatonic, minor pentatonic and blues
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
G# minor tonality (using the downbeat for an improv exercise)
6/8 time (quarter notes; dotted quarter notes; eighth notes; sixteenth notes)
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Sussing out Sus chords (open sound)
What to play over sus chords and soloing tips
Sus 2 can have a minor context
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
2-5-1-6 progression; istinguishing between the minor 6 and the dominant 7 (secondary dom)
Working up some static notes that happen above the chord changes
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Hearing Seconds
Importance of understanding rhythms
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Shedding pentatonics
Finding scale degrees in rhythm
Finding scale degrees in context
Improv exercises
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Finding chord progressions
Secondary dominants
The dominant field, using all dominant chords and making that work using root-5-8, blues scale, major pentatonic
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
C7 Chord - Putting in major and minor pentatonics, and blues scale
Wedging major and minor blues scales together
creating a "donut"
Sus Chords
Mixolydian scale
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Improvising using Triads
Sound qualities between major, minor & diminished chords
Tritone substitutions
Line cliches
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional Ear Training and identifying common chord progressions
Identifying scales and modes
Starting and ending on common (non-root) chord tones
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Hearing the differences between triads, minor 7, major 7, and dominant 7 chords
Improv and practice of such chords over 2 octaves
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Major Pentatonic
Importance of Phrasing, Volume, Rhythmic Templates
Call and Response Exercises
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Major and Minor chords
Using Pentatonics
Incorporating Rhythms
Getting comfortable with feeling and minor pentatonic
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Extending ear training into creativity training
Using Pentatonics
Call and Response Drills (simple phrasing)
Adding rhythm to create more interesting phrases
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Identifying Chords & Chord Qualities
Soloing over Dominant 7 Chords
Functional Ear Training
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Improv playing non-root notes - 3rds, 6ths, and 2nds on the downbeat
How to make them sound good by using slides
Functional Ear Training
Scalar studies / Intervalic jumps
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Major Pentatonics
Repeating the same interval over and over (minor 2nds and 5ths are only ones that keep repeating)
Functional Ear Training
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional Ear Training: Identifying note by note
Work in Phrases, they sink in easier
Map notes to a context (eg scale degrees, key)
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional Ear Training - Identifying: Notes, Intervals, Phrases and Scales
Rhythmic Dictation
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Triad Practice
Diatonic Hearing; Rhythmic Placement
Power of Resolving non-diatonic notes
Improvising using major pentatonic, starting on the 3rd
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Identifying SUS
Major and Minor chords
Distinguishing SUS 2 from SUS 4
Improvising on beat 4 on an A minor drone, tinkering with 6/8 timing
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Functional Ear Training: 3-6-2-5 progression
Mixolydian vs Dorian
Straight vs, Shuffled Rhythms
Using Guidetones in soloing
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
Identifying Shuffled vs Straight (song examples)
Transcribing a funky (Brecker Bros) tune
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Latest Live Events, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
EarTraining, bass in hand, in a musical context. Train your ear for real-life situations, from rhythms to pitches, from grooves to melodies. Ari teaches you what to listen for, how to hear details and when to “get the gist” of a section.
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Latest Live Events, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
EarTraining, bass in hand, in a musical context. Train your ear for real-life situations, from rhythms to pitches, from grooves to melodies. Ari teaches you what to listen for, how to hear details and when to “get the gist” of a section.
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Latest Live Events, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
EarTraining, bass in hand, in a musical context. Train your ear for real-life situations, from rhythms to pitches, from grooves to melodies. Ari teaches you what to listen for, how to hear details and when to “get the gist” of a section.
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
EarTraining, bass in hand, in a musical context. Train your ear for real-life situations, from rhythms to pitches, from grooves to melodies. Ari teaches you what to listen for, how to hear details and when to "get the gist" of a section.
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
EarTraining, bass in hand, in a musical context. Train your ear for real-life situations, from rhythms to pitches, from grooves to melodies. Ari teaches you what to listen for, how to hear details and when to "get the gist" of a section.
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, One-off Sessions
EarTraining, bass in hand, in a musical context. Train your ear for real-life situations, from rhythms to pitches, from grooves to melodies. Ari teaches you what to listen for, how to hear details and when to "get the gist" of a section.
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate
EarTraining, bass in hand, in a musical context. Train your ear for real-life situations, from rhythms to pitches, from grooves to melodies. Ari teaches you what to listen for, how to hear details and when to "get the gist" of a section.
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate
EarTraining, bass in hand, in a musical context. Train your ear for real-life situations, from rhythms to pitches, from grooves to melodies. Ari teaches you what to listen for, how to hear details and when to “get the gist” of a section.
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate
EarTraining, bass in hand, in a musical context. Train your ear for real-life situations, from rhythms to pitches, from grooves to melodies. Ari teaches you what to listen for, how to hear details and when to “get the gist” of a section.
All Courses, Ear Training Mondays, Intermediate, Latest Practice Sessions
EarTraining, bass in hand, in a musical context. Train your ear for real-life situations, from rhythms to pitches, from grooves to melodies. Ari teaches you what to listen for, how to hear details and when to "get the gist" of a section.
All Courses, Beginner, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Drilling minor triads and what good posture looks like. Groove over a Cm-Fm jamtrack.
All Courses, Beginner, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Right Hand Tech Shedding, Using rhythm to create grooves, feeling up and down beats and down-and-dirty tricks to create a working groove that drives!
All Courses, Beginner, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Focus on the fretboard with note naming, whole steps and the whole tone scale up and down the neck. Plus groove over a Pop I-vi-IV-V chord progression
All Courses, Beginner, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Dialing up diatonic and chromatic approaches for your creative toolkit. Plus groove over a I-vi-ii-V chord progression.
All Courses, Beginner, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Work on your reggae grooving in this easy-going, beginner-friendly session. Focus on triads over a i-IV-i-V jamtrack.
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Learning from the Kingsmen's Louie, Louie: Rhythm and Theory bits.
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
More ways how to get a scale under your fingers. In this case, the scale of F major! It will produce some lovely sounds you can use to turn some heads! Technique is a bit of yoga for the fingers, no kidding!
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Tricks and Tips for Reading using fretboard patterns. Working through the 5 major Pentatonic patterns.
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Drilling technique using hammer-ons and pull-offs. Improv using the major pentatonic scale. Groove over a I-V-vi-IV trrack.
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Fun with fourths! Using that interval to tie together technique, theory and patterns. Plus some reading tips, pentatonics and hammer-ons drills.
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Zig-zagging our way to improve technique and learn to look less at fretboard. Reading tips using patterns and improv drills.
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Back in Black... 'nuff said! The Technique and Theory behind the epic riff from Cliff Williams and AC/DC.
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Permutation drills for the right hand and left hand, plus some speed-building exercises. Rhythmic training to help you feel the downbeat and some G minor grooving!
All Courses, Intermediate, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
All about the Pentatonics - major and minor. Improv using groups of three notes.
All Courses, Advanced, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Major and Minor Triads over two octaves! Finger busting, mind busting, powerful!
All Courses, Advanced, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Find the notes on the fretboard without looking! In this session , we use the augmented scale to "augment" your fretboard knowledge!
All Courses, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Groove and Fill using the 5 Shapes from my Pattern System plus some improv using Pentatonics (hint: they are just shapes within the 5 shapes!)
All Courses, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
Deep dive into Triads. Discover what happens when we don't start on the root - inversions and the cool shapes they create! Learn and drill the five G major Triads Patterns
All Courses, Rapid Results Practice, One-off Sessions
The value of learning my Pattern System. What is can help with... and what it can't help with (spoiler alert: poor charts!)
All Courses, Goodies, Intermediate
A variety of tech tools, tutorials, bass-specific workspaces, keyboard shortcuts, bass customizations... download Ari's favorite resources and files she has created (some with her geeky partners)! Technology can help you learn.
All Courses, My Masterclasses, Beginner
Follow along with the book through technique and theory to Chapter 4 and apply the learnings in fun and creative ways! Perfect if you just got the book and want to explore musical applications.
$115
All Courses, My Masterclasses, Jazz, Beginner, Intermediate
This is a recording of a live masterclass with Ari! Learn how to play Jazz! Low intermediate. This is a Level 1 masterclass. This group ran for ten weeks. ➡️ Lifetime Access ⬅️
$175
All Courses, My Masterclasses, Jazz, Intermediate
This is a recording of a live practice group with Ari on Jazzy Jazz Tunes Level 2. This group started in July 2022, and ran for ten weeks. ➡️ Lifetime Access ⬅️
$175
All Courses, Featured, My Masterclasses, Pattern Practice, Intermediate, Advanced
This is a recording of live masterclasses with Ari on the Pattern System - Level 1. This group started in February 2023 and ran for ten weeks. ➡️ Lifetime Access ⬅️
$175
All Courses, My Masterclasses, Pattern Practice, Intermediate, Advanced
This is a rerun of a live practice group with Ari on the Pattern System - Level 2. This group started in May 2023 and ran for ten weeks. ➡️ Lifetime Access ⬅️
$175
All Courses, My Masterclasses, Pattern Practice, Advanced
Pattern Level 3 - Mondays at 10:00 AM (Pacific) beginning November 13, 2023
$175
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