Bass Lessons Los Angeles

I have been taking bass lessons with David for the past several months. I started with no knowledge of music or bass playing at all, and under David’s instruction, I have learned so much. From basics anatomy of a bass guitar, proper positioning of hands and striking techniques, scales and chords, timing and rhythm, to music theory. David has started me on a path of building a solid foundation of knowledge and technique in which to grow. Best of all he makes learning to play the bass fun. David is patience and tailors the lessons to your skills and abilities. He is very encouraging and challenges you to grow. He is able to impart his knowledge of music and bass playing in a manner that is easily relatable and digestible. In addition David is also a very skilled and amazing bass player who I highly recommend no matter your skill level or ability.

I took bass lessons with Dave for several years. He’s got a ton of knowledge around improvisation and jazz and classical music theory. I learned a lot with him. I was most interested in learning how to play jazz. We would take a tune, look at the movement from chord to chord and break down how the composer created the harmonic movement, realtive to the key, within the expanded ruleset avaialble to jazz composers. I picked up a ton of cool usable knowldege about bop scales, jazz minor scales, altered scales, using chord substitutions, hexatonic patterns and the four note groupings — Jerry Bergonzi style. I also learned to play a bunch of cool tunes like Solar, Donna Lee, In her urge, blue and green etc.
Along the way i learned that david also knows a lot about different styles of music. We left of working on more rythmic type studies of contemporary players who keep it simple and funky. No matter what level or style you are, youll pick something up from him. He also happens to be one the baddest session players in LA/​San Diego so he can walk the walk as well.