Online Bass Lessons For Beginners
If you're a beginner and you want to learn the bass guitar the quickest method of learning is to take lessons with a good teacher.
But note the crucial word - good. There are lots of guys out there teaching, but good bass teachers just aren't that common.
This Lens looks at what to look for to get yourself a good teacher - and also gives you a bit of detail about my own teaching course for beginners, which is delivered online. If you want more detailed info on my Online Bass Lessons then head over to my how to play basswebsite.
But note the crucial word - good. There are lots of guys out there teaching, but good bass teachers just aren't that common.
This Lens looks at what to look for to get yourself a good teacher - and also gives you a bit of detail about my own teaching course for beginners, which is delivered online. If you want more detailed info on my Online Bass Lessons then head over to my how to play basswebsite.
5 Things A Good Bass Guitar Teacher Will Do
1) A good bass guitar teacher will have a lesson plan that takes you from your current level towards the level you want to be in progressively harder steps.
2) A good bass teacher understands how the brain learns and teaches accordingly.
3) A good bass teacher understands that there are two parts to teaching - teaching and critiquing. And that teaching and critiquing from a natural cycle - funnily enough the 'Teach-Critique' cycle. And a good teacher makes time both to teach, AND to critique.
4) A good bass teacher provides you with supporting information so that you can effectively apply the teaching in the time period between lessons.
5) A good bass teacher teaches because he understands that everytime he teaches, he learns as much as the student.
2) A good bass teacher understands how the brain learns and teaches accordingly.
3) A good bass teacher understands that there are two parts to teaching - teaching and critiquing. And that teaching and critiquing from a natural cycle - funnily enough the 'Teach-Critique' cycle. And a good teacher makes time both to teach, AND to critique.
4) A good bass teacher provides you with supporting information so that you can effectively apply the teaching in the time period between lessons.
5) A good bass teacher teaches because he understands that everytime he teaches, he learns as much as the student.
Why Are There So Many Bad Bass Teachers Out There?
1) Not all bass teachers actually play the bass. A lot of them are guitarists.
2) A lot of guys teach as a gig. And consider it at the bottom of the food chain. So they don't prepare lessons, they don't really care about the teaching - only about getting the teaching FEE.
How to spot these guys: you walk into a lesson, they say: "Hey man, what do you wanna learn today?" My advice is to walk out after replying: "I want to learn from a proper teacher.)
3) A lot of guys teaching don't know how to teach (eg how to structure a lesson, how the brain learns, how to deal with student problems, etc etc)
4) Because the bass guitar is only 50 or so years old there is a lack of a teaching tradition outside of places like Berklee or BIT or other music schools. So there's no standard texts to fall back on.
5) A lot of guys teach the way they were taught, and don't realise in many cases that they've reached the level of playing they have DESPITE their original teaching, not because of it. And more bad teaching gets passed on.
2) A lot of guys teach as a gig. And consider it at the bottom of the food chain. So they don't prepare lessons, they don't really care about the teaching - only about getting the teaching FEE.
How to spot these guys: you walk into a lesson, they say: "Hey man, what do you wanna learn today?" My advice is to walk out after replying: "I want to learn from a proper teacher.)
3) A lot of guys teaching don't know how to teach (eg how to structure a lesson, how the brain learns, how to deal with student problems, etc etc)
4) Because the bass guitar is only 50 or so years old there is a lack of a teaching tradition outside of places like Berklee or BIT or other music schools. So there's no standard texts to fall back on.
5) A lot of guys teach the way they were taught, and don't realise in many cases that they've reached the level of playing they have DESPITE their original teaching, not because of it. And more bad teaching gets passed on.
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