BASS GUITAR
LESSONS FROM THE PROS
Take student-centered bass guitar lessons from professional performing musicians right here in Nashville. Learn the music you like to listen to and learn to implement the music theory when it comes up in your learning.
Green Hills Guitar Studio’s teachers tailor your learning to the music you want to play. You learn best when you enjoy what you’re playing, instead of learning scales without knowing how to use them. Some teachers give students the same routine, but our teachers are organized and linear without putting students through a cold, inflexible curriculum.
The Best Bass Guitar Lessons in Nashville
Take Bass Guitar Lessons from Performing Nashville Artists
The student-led lessons you take at Green Hills Guitar Studio are guided by your musical taste. You don’t have to know anything except the kind of music you like to listen to, and our guitar teachers will help you with the skills to play those songs.
Tim Marks
professional performing and recording musician with years of musical experience. He has studied, recorded and performed multiple styles of music and types of bass guitar. He uses this experience and knowledge to help students learn and develop the skills necessary to reach their own goals as musicians
Sam Farkas
Teaches guitar, ukulele, songwriting, music theory and ear training for beginner to advanced guitar students.
BASS GUITAR AREAS OF STUDY
- Reading and writing Nashville Number Charts
- Reading and writing lead sheets
- Reading and writing notation
- Understanding of theory and harmony
- Ear training (in relation to harmony and Nashville Numbers)
- Electric bass
- Knowledge of gear and tones
- Being an authentic bass player in any genre (Pop, Country, Jazz, Rock, Fusion, R&B, Funk, Singer Songwriter and more)
- Scales and arpeggios
- Improv (building bass lines, walking bass lines and improv)
- Playing techniques (fingerstyle, playing with a pick, slap, muted sound with palm and thumb techniques)
- Studio work (arranging, producing and being able to please the artist)
- Memorization (songs, lines, solos)
- 5 and 4 string basses
- Locking with a drummer
- Understanding of rhythm and beat placement
- Leading a band/rehearsal
SCHEDULE
BASS LESSONS
Please click below to purchase weekly lessons. Once you have made the purchase for music lessons, you will be directed to a form to request your lessons with an instructor. We will find a day and time that works best for your schedule. Please email us with any questions.
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