Vancouver Bass Lessons
How Our BAss Guitar LEssons HELp You Develop As A Musician
Beginner/Intermediate BAss Lessons:
- Information on buying the right bass guitar, amp, and other gear
- Learn how to tune and take care of your instrument
- Learn the proper technique and avoiding building bad habits
- Learn how to play pick style bass and finger style bass
- Get started playing your favourite bass riffs!
- Learn speed and agility exercises
- Intro to slap bass (ala flea red hot chill peppers)
- Develop a better understanding of rhythm and how the bass fits in the arrangement of songs
- Work on the ability to sing and play bass simultaneously
- Develop your inner songwriter
- Record and produce your songs
- Video recordings of each lesson for reference at home
- Learn how to read and write traditional notation or tablature
Intermediate/Advanced Bass Lessons:
- Preparation for music exams and college entrance auditions
- Provide an understanding of music theory and how it can be used in a practical way
- Develop your ear training and begin to learn songs by ear
- Develop your sight reading skills
- Learn how to create your own walking bass lines
- Learn how to connect positions of the pentatonic, man, min scale and play across the fretboard
- Note naming exercises to memorize the notes on the fretboard
- Develop your soloing and improvising through scale, chord and arpeggio knowledge
- Advanced solo techniques: economy picking, slap bass, bending, sliding, legato, harmonics
- Learn how to utilize the different modes of major and minor
- Improvising over more advanced chord changes
Misc:
- Pro Tools, Logic or music producing, arranging, composing, writing and stage performance.