music education

I recently started studying at Classical Guitar Corner Academy, which is entirely online and beyond awesome. I'd taken lessons online and they were not nearly as good, even when the teacher was skilled. Out of high school (in the 70s) I studied electric bass at the U. of Miami for two years. I...

I took a long hiatus from teaching bass, but at a jam session a guy liked my solo and asked for lessons. So I posted in a FB group that I was starting up again, and now I also have a ten-year-old girl taking lessons. She studied violin for a little bit and her dad plays bass; she wants to get...

Hey guys, I'm taking IGCSE music at my school and I need to choose my performance pieces. I was thinking about doing schism by tool/jazz crimes by Joshua redman/what is hip by tower of power. I need to pick 2 songs to play and I have about a year until they are due. I can easily play schism and...

My biggest regret in life was that I never finished my college degree. Back then I was an English major who was moonlighting as a rockabilly/roots musician; unfortunately the dream job of hitting it big in the music industry never fully materialized as I was unwilling to move to other parts of...

Hi friends! Finally resuming music theory. In this episode we'll talk about genre and the concepts that help define the parameters of a specific genre. Related to genre, we'll also discuss part 1 of what I like to call the context principle. Hope you enjoy it! Music tracks featured in this...

Hello all, I'll be visiting Finland for several months in the late fall of 2021 and I'd like to rent a double bass to keep up my studies and hopefully play some music while I am there. Can anyone recommend a shop that might rent me a double bass? On a related topic if you have any suggestions...

Hi friends, hope you are well. In this episode of Music Mechanics we delve deeper into the minor scales with a comparison of the natural and harmonic minor diatonic chord formulas. We'll also introduce the hybrid minor diatonic chord formula, borrowed chords, and the melodic minor scale...

Hello everyone, I got confused by these musical notation and the tabs attached. The notes seem to be mismatched by an octave. For example, the first note here is a Si (G) that I am used to play with third fret of E string (E3). In these tabs, the note is located in E15. It's still a G, but a...

Hey friends, I just wanted to share my first in a series of video lessons about practicing with a metronome. I'm taking my YouTube channel in a new direction, and dedicating it to bass education. Have a look at the first video and please do like, share, and subscribe to the channel. I know...

Hey TB! I've been having a blast doing monthly webinars over at BassEducation for members every month and thought.... hey, why not host one once in a while for everybody! No time limit... if you have questions or want to chat, I'll be there for as long as the conversation goes! Here are the...