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🚀 Beginner Groups
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📙 Pattern System Series
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🎵 Ari's Rhythm Matrix
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🎷 Jazz Practice Intensives
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🎧 EarTraining and Transcribing
Level Up with Ari's MasterClasses
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Choose from a
variety of past Masterclasses to learn from -
Topics such as The Pattern System and The Rhythm Matrix are organized in various levels. Always start with Level 1 - even if you are advanced - as it's Level 1 of the method.
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Always unique content, no overlap! No two groups are ever the same, even if they are both the same level!
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Took a level and need more practice? Simply choose the same level again to practice more (many students do and did that).
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Practice along and do the assignments and you will spend a highly prouctive time on the bass indeed!
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Some groups were together for a long time as they progressed together.
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Pattern 1 is precisely what I needed at just the right time. This course is definitely challenging in the best sense.
Building a strong foundation and putting the bricks where they need to be, so to speak.
Setting this foundation to grow as a musician and be an authentic skilled player.
I am thrilled to be in this course and will definitely enroll in Pattern 2. I am grateful to be learning from Ari - musician and bass player and human extraordinaire.
It’s a holistic experience. I highly and hugely recommend this course and learning from Ari to any bass player world wide. For any player who is searching for a mentor and a method you have found it with Ari.
Building a strong foundation and putting the bricks where they need to be, so to speak.
Setting this foundation to grow as a musician and be an authentic skilled player.
I am thrilled to be in this course and will definitely enroll in Pattern 2. I am grateful to be learning from Ari - musician and bass player and human extraordinaire.
It’s a holistic experience. I highly and hugely recommend this course and learning from Ari to any bass player world wide. For any player who is searching for a mentor and a method you have found it with Ari.
I started to think more musically without feeling overwhelmed
Just a note to thank you for the great classes on your Pattern System book.
This system really can open musical doors in the best way possible.
By structuring your playing around the 5 shapes our minds can grasp this information systematically, plus the way you drip feed the exercises I started to think more musically without feeling overwhelmed!
Thank you and the team for all you do!
This system really can open musical doors in the best way possible.
By structuring your playing around the 5 shapes our minds can grasp this information systematically, plus the way you drip feed the exercises I started to think more musically without feeling overwhelmed!
Thank you and the team for all you do!
Incredibly worthwhile to take a second time
This was the second time I took the Pattern System Level 1 course and it was incredibly worthwhile. I picked up on a number of aspects of the pattern system that I overlooked the first time through. It has really helped to cement the pattern system in my brain and has improved my knowledge of the fretboard (including the 5-string).
I highly recommend this course to anyone that wants a thorough knowledge of the electric bass.
I’ve learned more [...] in the last ten weeks than in the three or four years of combined instruction locally
I signed up for the next session less than 24 hours after the info was posted so that should tell you something.
I’ve taken in-person lessons from four local “teachers" here in the Columbus area and have learned bits and pieces from each of them.
What I didn’t learn was how to tie those bits and pieces up into a usable bundle. I’ve learned more about that part of it in the last ten weeks than in the three or four years of combined instruction locally.
I plan on continuing with this course until I feel comfortable enough to walk into any situation, plug in, and hold my own and would recommend anybody spending some time in a class of their interest with Ari.
I’ve taken in-person lessons from four local “teachers" here in the Columbus area and have learned bits and pieces from each of them.
What I didn’t learn was how to tie those bits and pieces up into a usable bundle. I’ve learned more about that part of it in the last ten weeks than in the three or four years of combined instruction locally.
I plan on continuing with this course until I feel comfortable enough to walk into any situation, plug in, and hold my own and would recommend anybody spending some time in a class of their interest with Ari.
Helped me understand rhythmsChris N.
First of all I wanted to tell you how much I've learned in our class and it has really help me understand the rhythms.
Your teaching methods are amazing.
I now find myself trying to identify the rhythm patterns on tunes as I drive to work and transcribing some of the bass lines that constantly bounce around my head.
Your teaching methods are amazing.
I now find myself trying to identify the rhythm patterns on tunes as I drive to work and transcribing some of the bass lines that constantly bounce around my head.
Who are our Beginner-friendly Masterclasses for?
These groups are great if you are just starting your bass journey!
What to expect:
- Easy-going groove practice in several styles
- Foundational theory and how to use it
- Lots of technique drills, help staying ahead of pesky bad habits
- Note-finding on the fretboard
- Playing the blues and simple lines
- Helping you find the beat!
- A bit of foundational ear training
- The power and magic of improvisation - find your musical personality from the start!
What is Ari's Rhythm Matrix?
Simply put, a way to help you get rhythm into your body, to make it intuitive!
Often it's simply assumed, rarely is it properly taught: how to naturally feel rhythm as you play!
What you'll learn:
- How to play to the beat and never drop or add one, even when improvising
- Learn what makes it groove
- The importance of the subdivision and how to feel it
- How to get your body involved to naturally help you keep the beat
- The difference between straight and shuffled subdivisions
- How to keep the form
- Frequently used rhythms in songs and certain styles
- How reading rhythms helps you nail them and understand them
- Go from counting to feeling the rhythm
Ari's Rhythm Matrix is a comprehensive shape-based system that addresses the number 1 issue players of a variety of levels have (and they often don't even realize they have it) - a lack of a rhythmic foundation in the body.
And the great news is, this is fixable, trainable, and learnable!
It's one of Ari's most popular programs!
These groups go through Ari's and Wolf's book, the Pattern System for the Bass Player, with lots of drills, applications and musicality practice.
What to expect:
- Intensive fretboard training
- Kicking your chops into high gear
- Musicality practice
- Mental Practice
- Training your musical mind
- Playing in all keys, anywhere on the neck, with confidence!
- Improv skills with Ari's guidance to increase your musicality
- Putting theory under your fingers, reliably, everywhere on the fretboard
- A variety of chop-busting Scalar Studies and how to use them in a musical context
Level 1-3 Pack
(Latest edition)
3 Levels, 30 hours of instruction, recorded in 2023
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Level 1-6 Pack
(2021 Edition)
🤯 In 2021/22, one group of students went 6 levels deep! 60 hours of progressive Pattern Practice! You can join their journey by going this Pattern Path:
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Jazzy Jazz Masterclasses - a great Start into Jazz
Learning Jazz is fantastic for various reasons: not only will it cement your theory knowledge and teach you Jazz improvisation, it will also enable you to jam with others using a real book!
What you'll learn:
- How to read and walk changes
- How to play a Jazz Bossa
- How to make it swing hard (because it don't mean a thing...)
- Effective ways of walking the changes
- Cool ways to spice up a walking bass line
- How to play effectively with a drummer
- What to do when comping for various soloists
- What to listen for
- How to keep the form
- A variety of cool standards
- How to use Musescore to compose your own walking bass lines
- How to analyze changes and how doing that makes you a better player
Explore our Jazz Log to find the specific tunes featured in the individual groups.