I have been playing for thirty years and teaching bass for twenty. Whether you are a neophyte of any age, an intermediate who's in a rut, or wants to reach the next level, or a seasoned professional looking to enhance a specific skill, style, project, or address a hole in your abilities, I offer bass lessons customized to your needs. Everyone learns differently. Together, we can formulate a doable goal, and find the best way for this information to be realized. We cover the needed basics while keeping the student's aesthetic in mind. The lessons keep pace with the student technical progress and musical evolution. I love to help people reach their potential! THE STUDY OF MUSIC Rhythm, harmony and melody are fundamentals of music. Discipline, focus, organization, positive consistency and detached acceptance are the keys to mastery.

SEVEN DISCIPLINES FOR THE BASS

1. Rhythm, Rhythm Rudiments, Dead Notes and Feel.

2. Note Groupings: Intervals, Scales, Modes, Arpeggio, Chords, Shapes, Patterns, Phrasing, and Harmonics.

3. Songs: the study of Melody, Harmony, Linear Harmony, Counter Point, and Voice Leading, etc.

4. Reading: Sight-reading, Sight-singing.

5. Ear Training: learning bass lines from recordings, and transcription.

6. Holding Down Bass Lines: Walking Quarter notes, Swinging Eighth notes, Running Sixteenth notes, Triplets including Shuffle Feels, Odd Time Signatures, Thump/Pop, Two-Hand Tapping, etceteras.

7. CREATING! This is a lifetime of work.

I offer a comprehensive study of these disciplines for the beginning, intermediate, and advanced student. The language of all musical styles and cultures are sung here in New York. I strive to experience, learn and teach many of these styles. Music is fun: the more you know, and the more you can do, the more fun it is.

REMEMBER SING WHAT YOU PLAY AND ALWAYS LISTEN!