Tag Archives: electric bass

Learn Bass From A Bass Player

Elec­tric Bass Instruc­tor Avail­able in West Ghent I have over 15 years play­ing the elec­tric bass, which includes 4 and 5 string as well as fret­less instru­ments and a Bachelor’s of Music from Berklee Col­lege of Music. I am not a “failed gui­tarist.” I have been teach­ing pri­vately for about 5 years, includ­ing teach­ing bass and

Bass Amp Blues, Pt. 2

The blues are over. I don’t usu­ally shop on eBay. I have had noto­ri­ously bad luck with eBay the last few times I’ve bought or sold any­thing on it. It’s a good place for old stuff you can’t find, but peo­ple gen­er­ally know what they are sell­ing these days and they know how to sub­si­dize extra

Practice

This is an old blog post that I decided to go back and update. Some of the ideas I expressed here have evolved since the first writ­ing, so I wanted to reflect that. I’ve totally removed the bit about mak­ing orga­nized prac­tice rou­tines because, as it occurs to me, they’ve never been so suc­cess­ful. I’d

Listening

Some­times as a music teacher, one finds them­selves falling into the famil­iar pit­falls of their stu­dents. I am the worst offender of the “do as I say, not as I do” teach­ing phi­los­o­phy. I am try­ing hard to over­come my per­sonal hang-ups in order to be more of the “lead by exam­ple” type of instruc­tor,