Involve your friends in practicing volume 2 - Here's another example of a microadventure you could have by repurposing the material from Contemporary Bassist volume 2 more freely along with some of your other musician friends. May I remind you that the MICROAVENTURES series was created by... Continue reading
Contemporary Bassist 2: A gold mine of basslines and grooves! - The Contemporary Bassist Volume 2 is a veritable gold mine of musically interesting basslines and grooves that can "live a life of their own" and give much satisfaction, in the hands of mildly creative and resourceful students. Here is a... Continue reading
3 typical qualities of a professional bass player Still from the comfort of my studio chair, I asked Titian: what do you have to do, or what do you need, if you want to go from amateur to professional? Not just in general, but really do it as a bassist or double bass player 🙂 If by amateur I mean one who... Continue reading
An example of how to improvise with modes, taken from the online course - If you like or are intrigued by the modes of the major scale, know that in Contemporary Bassist 2 a very exciting work on modes awaits you. It's a topic that is really broad and full of possibilities, especially for creating... Continue reading
The ORIGINS of the Contemporary Bassist Online. VIDEO 5: Scales on the Electric Bass (lz. 21a) The FIFTH video of the Origins of the Contemporary Bassist Online focuses on SCALES on the electric bass. Released on 8 September 2015, it is one of the first videos in the online course. The 7 prototypes on which the... Continue reading
The ORIGINS of the Contemporary Bassist Online. VIDEO 3: The cycle of fifths (lesson 16g) Here is the THIRD video in the Origins of the Contemporary Bassist Online, dedicated to the cycle of fifths for electric bass from lesson 16g and released on 1 September 2015. This video is also part of the series... Continue reading
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
QUIZ. Would you like to be able to improvise solos on electric bass? Possible answers: Ma va What a bore If I wanted to play solos I'd play guitar A lot... too bad I'm still a beginner I already do it whenever I can If the answer is between 1 and 3, bye and talk to you... Continue reading
It is September and the new school year has just begun. For many music fans, it's time to get back out the instrument, the sheet music, the notebook with the staff and more. Are you also thinking of starting to study the electric bass... or maybe the... Continue reading
