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Who's Your Bass Teacher???

#21
I used to take lessons from Dave LaRue. He is a terrific guy. You will learn a lot. Dave doesn't jsut teach bass, he teaches music and how to put your all into it. Makes a big difference.
Wish I could still take lessons from him but now I'm learning upright bass and it takes up all my time. When you talk to him, tell him I highly recommended him and tell him I think he still has the best hair in instrumental music.
 
#25
I was lucky to study with Ron Carter for a couple years. He is really a great teacher. He's tough (although he has a great sense of humor once you get to know him) but if you do what he says you will become a better bassist.
 
#28
j-raj said:
Also Check out any of The Fringe (Lockwood/Guilloti/Garzone) is amazing!
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Oh man!!!!! The Fringe is where it's at! Anyone even remotely close to Boston should make a point to see them play. It's completely improvised and completely different at every gig. They've moved from the Lizard Lounge to The Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge on monday nights. All three musicians are as good as it gets. George Garzone is the best tenor player you'll ever see.

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#29
emjazz said:
Oh man!!!!! The Fringe is where it's at! Anyone even remotely close to Boston should make a point to see them play. It's completely improvised and completely different at every gig. They've moved from the Lizard Lounge to The Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge on monday nights. All three musicians are as good as it gets. George Garzone is the best tenor player you'll ever see.

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yup and yup...

I saw the trio last April at Zeitgeist (the new location in Inman), but Guilotti wasn't with them, different drummer... The Lizard Lounge was where I used see them when I was living up there.

... man, seeing them again was more than a bass lesson!




A few more bassists that I have taken lessons from since I have been living here in Atlanta:

Regi Wooten
Charlie Wooton
Adam Nitti
Gary Wilkins
 
#36
basss said:
I was lucky to study with Ron Carter for a couple years. He is really a great teacher. He's tough (although he has a great sense of humor once you get to know him) but if you do what he says you will become a better bassist.
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How hard is it to get into lessons with him? In 4 or 5 years, I'm hoping to spend a summer in NYC specifically to take lessons with him and to hack it for a couple months on the NYC jazz scene (eg, go to a bunch of jam sessions with droves of unresponsive horn players at 4am and have a drink with Ed Fuqua on occasion or something.)
 
#37
I had two semesters of upright lessons at Berklee College of Music (1978-79) with John Neves, then about 2 lessons in Boston with a classical upright guy named Morton Cahn.
In the summer of 1977 I had about three months of upright lessons in New York with Richard Davis, immediately followed by one lesson on electric in Florida with Jaco Pastorius.
Other than that, I'm self-taught. I started by playing along with Cream and early J. Geils Band records. :)
 
#38
tplyons said:
Wow, some of you have really respectable lists. I took a couple lessons from Dave Overthrow as well, just forgot. Doubt he would remember me either.
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Dave's a cool guy. I just had my first lesson from him in 22 years this past Tuesday. T'was a great time and I learned a lot during the time we met. It was also my first experience with his series of instructional books and I found them to be quite good. I picked up a few already that had parts we touched on during the lesson so I can try to absorb it more. They're very well written books from what I can see so far. I'm definitely looking forward to many, many more lessons from him!! I feel very fortunate to have a good instructor like this located within a reasonable distance from my house. :cool:
 
#39
dougjwray said:
I had two semesters of upright lessons at Berklee College of Music (1978-79) with John Neves,...
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How was that, for you? He was my teacher when I was at Berklee (a year or so after you), but I would have to say that we didn't really focus on much. I thought he sounded great and had a wonderful feel, but he didn't really talk much about how to work on getting that feel or much about improvisational concept. Or physical approach to the instrument, for that matter. In some ways I think I would have had a better physical approach if I had studied with Whit Brown.
 

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