Bass school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

The bass not only holds a band together rhythmically, but it’s also a crucial component to the overall sound and direction of the music. Berkleemusic’s 3-course Specialist Certificate Program in Bass educates students in the essential facets of bass playing: performance, technique, improvisation, and style. After in-depth study and practice in this program, you will be able to perform with confidence, in your own style, and play great rock, blues, and jazz-based bass lines.

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The bass not only holds the band together rhythmically, but is also a crucial component to the overall sound and direction of the music. In Bass Performance 101, you’ll learn to create and perform your own unique bass lines in a variety of different styles. Throughout the course you’ll focus on four key areas of performance: time, tonality, timbre, and taste, and learn how to use theory to generate ideas that you can apply directly to your bass lines.

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Jazz Bass explores the key ingredients necessary to play great jazz bass lines, including the sound, feel, foundation, and power. Throughout the course, you will learn techniques for playing effective walking bass lines over jazz chord changes. The course begins by exploring "money notes"—the notes most valuable to a bass player to support and influence the band. You will play simple and functional walking bass lines over the blues and then progress to more sophisticated lines over jaz...

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It’s essential for any bass player interested in popular music to have a solid foundation in rock music. From its roots in traditional blues, rock bass is a launching point into many varied music styles: progressive rock, fusion, country, jam band styles, and more. Rock Bass provides the foundation and vocabulary necessary to construct and improvise bass lines in a variety of rock and blues music styles. You’ll start by learning the 12-bar blues form and the major and minor pentatonic ...

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Central to the mission of Music Works NW, Private Instruction serves beginners to advanced level musicians, from the very young through adulthood. All are invited to study with Music Works NW’s outstanding faculty. Private, semi-private, and group lessons are available.

Lessons are scheduled for the convenience of students and faculty; lessons may be started any time during the year and tuition will be prorated.

Choosing to take private lessons can lead to an enormous amount of mus...

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