Understanding your progress on the bass: quite a feat! After more than thirty years of teaching electric bass and double bass, I realised that the biggest problem for a student is to understand what it really means to improve as a musician. Understanding your progress. Also because if you've never played before,... Continue reading
Contemporary Bassist Online SPECIAL OFFER 🙂 - It's finally here. After helping hundreds of people to learn the electric bass professionally, the Contemporary Bassist Online course is definitely changing location. From the Vimeo platform it has fully moved to this new platform. Here is the long-awaited link to... Continue reading
Contemporary Bassist Online THE OPEN DAY IS NOW !!!! It's finally here. The online course is changing location. Here is the long-awaited access link: https://corso-online.bassistacontemporaneo.it/ Remember this address because by Christmas the online course will all move here, one step at a time. Log in now, have a look... Read more
Just published Contemporary Bassist 1 new edition!!! Yes, 13 years after its first publication for the general public (summer 2006), the book Contemporary Bassist 1 comes out TODAY in a brand new edition. Now 220 pages, ISBN code 979-12-200-5194-1. Here it is, photographed on my desk 🙂 With this... Continue reading
The bass lesson you don't expect Just today the schools started again, I think to the delight of many grandparents and parents 🙂 And also around this time, music schools are reopening after the summer break. If you too are ready to start bass lessons again,... Continue reading
Help! The tabs are drawn differently!!! Yesterday I received an email from someone who had just downloaded the 5 STEPS, all alarmed about an alleged error in the PDF regarding the drawing of the bass keyboard. I'm quoting it to you in full here, because it gives me the cue for a clarification... Continue reading
The FIFTH CYCLE of the Contemporary Bassist Online course is ready! It is with great pleasure and honour that I inform you that from today the lessons of the FIFTH CYCLE of the Contemporary Bassist Online course are officially available. You can find them here: http://lezioni-online-21-25.bassistacontemporaneo.it/. The group of lessons 21-25 completes volume 1 and is definitely the most... Continue reading
In arrivo le lezioni 21-25 del corso online! Forse sei solo all’inizio dei 5 passi, o forse hai già completato il corso preparatorio di basso elettrico, e stai pensando come proseguire. Beh, ecco una notizia molto importante! Ti anticipiamo che manca davvero poco alla pubblicazione dell’ultimo ciclo del Bassista Contemporaneo… Continua a leggere
Why Study Bass Lines? Fifth and final article in the series 'Electric Bass Guitar Level I'. A series dedicated to show you the check-list of basic skills and knowledge that every bass player should have after the first level course. Also to avoid making the typical beginner's mistakes,... Continue reading
Let's talk about Rhythms! Here is the fourth article in the series 'Electric Bass Level I', dedicated to showing you the basic minimum level that every self-respecting bass player should reach. Basically it's a sort of check-list of the 5 essential pillars that cannot be missing in your arsenal! This video... Continue reading
