⭐BASS LESSONS - lessons & tutoring

Colgan Bryan •••-•••-••••

🎸FREE online/phone consultation🎸

Authentic BASS lessons...not just watered down guitar lessons. Most people make the standard mistake of assuming a bass is just a 4 or 5 string guitar and that a guitar teacher is automatically qualified to teach bass. It is often my job to fix the problems caused by poor training from guitarists or the internet so students can actually discover how fast they really can learn."A guitar teacher is NOT automatically qualified to teach bass but local businesses have a very difficult time finding REAL bass instructors so they hope to make as much money off you before you catch on to their bait-and-switch!"

The primary benefit of bass lesson with a local instructor is that you will have the benefit of accountability. That doesn't mean you won'[t have the option of online lessons at times, especially if you travel or move out of the area where quality training is unavailable.

The images above are the covers of SOME some of the PUBLISHED BASS personality and instruction books I have had the pleasure of working on through (Warner Bros Publications). I have 49 years teaching privately with 15 of those years experience teaching online.

IMPORTANT: I am NOT just another online "Guru" trying to sell you a mass-produced magic "method." I am the type of instructor who wants you to learn in a fraction of the amount of time that I learned and I do this by factoring in the most important element of your results, good or bad. That element is YOU.

Mass-production CAN'T provide the quality or results that you are paying for but most businesses do NOT want to admit that or for you to know that because mass-production is their number one way to make the most money.

A SKILLED private instructor means NO busy-work and INVESTING your time in moving forward, NOT just keeping busy. That's the true art of private teaching that most instructors don't for many years if ever.

Skilled bassists know how great it feels to lay down an amazing floor and it's something that NEVER gets old. It is a true art that you can continue to refine and grow for the rest of your life if you are lucky enough to experience it at all.

Skilled bassists don't spend our lives growing and developing our skill because we like to suffer. We have fallen in love with playing and learning and if we are VERY lucky, we will spend the rest of their life discovering and learning more

Warning: If you just want to play bass because you think it's easier than guitar, then you are not ready YET. Until you actually listen to the instrument consciously, you will not be in the best place to really enjoy a FUN instrument. I am sorry but, unlike storefront "schools", I insist you always know the facts and prefer that you do NOT spend your money until the RIGHT TIME.

If you love the bass, if it's what you listen to and hear the most when you listen to music, then you "get it" and you will likely be a perfect candidate and we can put together a program based on your favorite players, favorite songs while learning the best technique and skills that are appropriate to YOUR needs.

Available topics CAN include:

GROOVE, WALKING BASS, SLAP TECHNIQUES, FINGER STYLE (2 FINGER AND 3 FINGER TECHNIQUES) PICK (YES THAT'S ALLOWED), HYBRID PICKING, RIGHT HAND MUTING, GHOSTING, *STAND-UP LEFT HAD FINGERING, STYLE ANALYSIS, TRANSCRIBING, FRETBOARD MEMORIZATION, FRETLESS INTONATION, TONE DEVELOPMENT, STANDARD & ALTERNATE TUNING, THEORY, EAR TRAINING, STANDARD NOTATION, ARRANGING, COMPOSITION and more...IF RELEVANT TO YOUR GOALS!!!

Styles (genres) can include:

MODERN ROCK, CLASSIC ROCK, FUNK and R&B, GOSPEL, JAZZ, FUSION, REGGAE, COUNTRY, PUNK, PROGRESSIVE ROCK, LATIN, CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN, POP and more...

* I do not teach upright bass but I use proper upright, left-hand technique instead of less efficient guitar technique that most teachers use.

49 years TEACHING.experience bringing several thousand clients from their point A to their point B Graduate of B.I.T. (Bass Institute of Technology)

Transcriber/arranger/editor for Hal Leonard, Warner Bros Publications, AMSCO/WISE (Music Sales), Cherry Lane, Alfred, World Music 4All.

Bass products I have worked on include:

"Classic Funk and R&B Grooves for Bass" by Josquin Des Pres (Warner Bros), "Rush Bass Anthology" (Warner Bros), "KORN Bass Anthology" (Warner Bros), "Harmonics for Bass" by Dean Peer (Warner Bros), Roscoe Beck's "Blues Bass-lines" (REH Video), Steve Smith's "Fretless Bass" (REH Video), "Harmonic Colours" by David Gross (Warner Bros), "Funk Bass and Beyond" by Bill "the Buddha" Dickens (Warner Bros), "On the Record" by Dave LaRue (Warner Bros.)

Call or email me with an explanation of where you are now musically (point A) and where you want to go (point B). List influences of artists and bassists (the MORE the better) and any technical issues you might want to address.

786- 663-4041

Call me any time (whether you sign up or not) for free consultation. Unlike businesses and instructors who say "first lesson is free" we will actually discuss YOUR needs WITHOUT you having to drive out or endure a high-pressure sales speech to sign up now for large blocks of lessons.

<<Search terms: bass lesson, in person, online, tutor, webcam, Zoom, Facetime, Skype, instruction, teacher, blues, funk, R&B, rock, pop, metal, country, jazz folk best