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Bass Lessons in Brighton, Lewes, and East Sussex

Ever wanted to pick up a Fender Precision Bass  guitar and perform on stage for admiring fans ? Would it be in a stadium, or the smokey gloom of a jazz and blues club?

Guitar heroes are the stuff of legend: Jack Bruce (Cream), Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Lemmy (Motorhead), Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones). All the great bass players started right at the beginning. Learning bass guitar with root notes and simple ‘box’ shapes, just like everyone else.

At Clives Rock Schools they offer a unique and effective EasyLearn method of learning to play bass, as well as offering guitar, singing and drums lessons in Lewes, Brighton, Hove and East Sussex.

The Rock School helps children and teens aged 8-16 learn how to play bass guitar or other rock music instruments in a supportive and fun atmosphere. Click here for information about bass lessons and ask about drumming lessons and singing lessons in Brighton. Or read this brief review:

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At Clives Rock Schools, music tuition including drum lessons and singing lessons, are taught by music teachers who are graduates or undergraduates at BIMM – The Brighton Institute of Modern Music. With a maximum of 1:2 teacher pupil ratio,  learning to sing or play an instrument is rapid and straightforward.

All singing, drums and guitar lessons cover a wide range of musical styles including Blues, Rock, Indie, Pop, Metal and Reggae.

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Each of Clive’s drum lessons, singing lessons and guitar lessons end in a jam session where students can practice and develop their character and confidence. Clives music tutors play the same music as the kids, so they are interested and inspired by the rock music they are learning and playing.

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Bass Guitar Lessons in Brighton’s Rock School

Bass Guitar lessons at Clives Rock School, Brighton, are held twice weekly

Learn bass at Woodingdean Brighton (BN2) on Saturdays and Balfour Junior School Brighton (BN1) onWednesday evenings. Lessons last 60 minutes, and cost £20. Just call 07920 162489 for your free trial lesson -or book your bass guitar lesson in Brighton.

Each bass tutor teaches just one or two students at a time – not you usual one-to-many teaching ration! Bass guitar lessons are rigorous yet inspirational, and fun. Other students are also learning guitar, drumming, learning vocals or learning to play our vintage rock keyboards too, and all practising their new-found musical talents in the jam sessions which are a feature of Clives Rock Schools.

Bass Guitar pupils are welcome to try their hand at any instrument, to broaden their musical skills bass as they wish.

Bass Guitar teachers use the well known EasyLearn system, designed just for kids aged 8-16, in use for over 30 years. Bass practice guidance notes (aka “homework”) are prepared after each lesson and printed music lesson plans are provided.

So there is a formal structure, and formal bass guitar theory, to help the music students progress steadily. Learning bass theory is important, but so is fun and inspiration. Parents regularly report that their children practice bass between guitar lessons without prompting!

Academic research confirms that beginning bass guitar, or any other musical instrument, helps concentration, shyness, memory and intelligence!  checkout  music makes you smarter for more details. Start bass guitar lessons now, and learn to play bass like an expert!

Bass Guitar Lesson Plans

From bass guitar root notes to mastering guitar modes in just a few lessons!

Planning bass guitar lessons is essential – but not many bass teachers create their own structured lesson plans. Its time consuming, extremely technical and difficult and its much easier just to teach scales, riffs a few bass guitar tricks, and hope for the best!

With Clives Rock Schools, the full bass guitar course, comprising a printed bass guitar manual and MP3 files covers  an 18-24 month period, and the students progress is constantly monitored.

Guitar fun begins on day-one, and bass theory is carefully explained according to individual students needs – very different to the usual Rock School thrash where 10 or 20 students are lectured to by a single tutor and then let loose, with almost no real knowledge or skill. The student is able progress through to mastery of bass guitar techniques step by step . Clives ‘EasyLearn’ bass guitar syllabus makes learning to play bass as straightforward and easy as possible (but no easier!), without overlooking essential theory.

Starting with simple root notes, the EasyLearn bass guitar lesson plans includes these essential bass guitar skills:

root notes, tabs, 12-Bar Blues bass riffs, turnarounds, notation: minims crotchets and quavers, bass progressions, the middle-eight, major scales, patterns of construction and fill-ins, song projects, long-move and reverse triangles, triplets and combination riffs, Blues improvisation, blues scales, bass soul and funk styles, octaves, reggae, walking bass, passing notes, Learn Songwriting, Blues Improvisation, practice with fretless bass, Lydian modes, and much more.

Join now and enjoy a FREE bass guitar lesson, and checkout the regular cost saving promotions and discount guitar lessons at Clives Rock School in Brighton.

 

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Wanna play bass guitar?

Aged 7 to 17?

Want to have some bass fun, play bass music and not be held back by bass guitar theory right away?

Take Bass Guitar lessons in Brighton or Lewes, East Sussex with Clives Rock School!

Bass students learn bass guitar every week with a bass guitar lesson which lasts 60 minutes. 45 minutes is spent learning bass guitar techniques, finishing off with about 15 minutes of jamming with other students and guitar tutors, many of whom are professional guitarists and active gigging musicians.

Even students beginning bass guitar lessons make rapid progress. Clives Rock Schools ‘Easylearn’ system of bass guitar lesson plans is battle-tested since 1981, and almost 10,000 music pupils. Many bass guitar students have used skills learned at Clives Rock Schools as the basis of a fulfilling music career.

So lets Rock!  Play bass guitar in a rock band  every week, and cover chart songs and classics such as:

Green Day, The Killers, Pearljam, The Cream, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Muse, Bob Marley, Rolling Stones, White Stripes, Nirvana, Neil Young, Toots Maytal, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Santana, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Creedence Clearwater with John Fogerty & Johnny ‘Guitar’ Williamson, … and ’60′s soul artistes such as Aretha Franklin and Bettye LaVette.

Enrol now for some real bass guitar lessons! Brighton, East Sussex is the centre of a vibrant musicscene, so click Clivesmusicbrighton.com and  check-in for your first free bass guitar lesson.