Music Mastery Lessons: Bass Guitar and All Other Instruments

With over 25 years teaching music lessons, 9 books written for musicians, countless performances and recording sessions, and 12 years on the music faculty at San Francisco State University, I can offer you the most efficient path to achieve your musical goals. My lessons go beyond teaching you how to play your instrument. I give you the steps needed to learn and practice in the most effective ways so you are making the best use of your time in between lessons - the crucial days of the week when you are on your own and when the real learning happens.

For all instruments, I will coach you on how to master the process of learning your instrument and how to prepare for any performance, audition, or rehearsal. You'll learn to make the best use of your practice time, which will ultimately save you hundreds of hours and hundreds of dollars.

You can also take bass guitar lessons with me. Learn technique, music theory for bass players, sightreading, famous bass lines, soloing techniques, and how to create your own bass lines - in any style. Bass lessons are for 4-string and 5-string fretted and fretless bass. I am the author of the Essential Sightreading Studies for Electric Bass 3-volume series of books and will give you all the tips, tricks, and strategies used by professional bass players for reading charts and fake books.

My best-selling Musician's Practice Planner notebooks are designed to help music students organize their practice time and clearly outline their goals. The Ten Minute Virtuoso series of books are my latest books. These books are designed to help you quickly and efficiently master your instrument and are based on the latest research into the learning process. All of my students learn these strategies in my coachings and lessons.

My teaching style is personalized to your needs, unique in its approach, and effective for anyone. Lessons are available in person at my teaching studio in Oakland or via Skype from anywhere in the world. With Skype lessons, no one spends any time stuck in traffic - or even packing up their instrument and materials to leave the house.

David's Subjects

Music:	cello, clarinet, drums, flute, guitar, music theory, piano, saxophone, trumpet, violin
Homeschool:	piano

Music Theory

Music theory is incorporated into lessons and coaching as needed. Chord structure, key signatures, time signatures, scales, soloing techniques, sightreading and more are used to make learning and playing easier.

Guitar

I offer coaching to guitarists as a complement to their guitar lessons with their guitar teachers. My focus is on helping guitar players practice more efficiently, learn more quickly and effectively, and prepare for auditions and performances. I have been a guest speaker at several national and regional music educator conferences and have given master classes in effective practice and performance techniques at schools and universities. I am the author of the book The 10 Minute Guitar Virtuoso:... Read More

Piano

I offer coaching to pianists as a complement to their piano lessons with their piano teachers. My focus is on helping piano players and keyboardists practice more efficiently, learn more quickly and effectively, and prepare for auditions and performances. I have been a guest speaker at several national and regional music educator conferences and have given master classes in effective practice and performance techniques at schools and universities. I am the author of the book The 10 Minute Piano... Read More

Violin

I offer coaching to violinists and violists as a complement to their private lessons with their violin and viola teachers. My focus is on helping violinists and violists practice more efficiently, learn more quickly and effectively, and prepare for auditions and performances. I have been a guest speaker at American String Teachers Association conferences and have given master classes in effective practice and performance techniques at schools and universities.

Cello

I offer coaching to cellists as a complement to their cello lessons with their cello teachers. My focus is on helping cellists practice more efficiently, learn more quickly and effectively, and prepare for auditions and performances. I have been a guest speaker at American String Teachers Association conferences and have given master classes in effective practice and performance techniques at schools and universities.

Saxophone

I offer coaching to saxophonists as a complement to their saxophone lessons with their saxophone teachers. My focus is on helping sax players (soprano, alto, tenor, or baritone) practice more efficiently, learn more quickly and effectively, and prepare for auditions and performances. I have been a guest speaker at several national and regional music educator conferences and have given master classes in effective practice and performance techniques at schools and universities.

Flute

I offer coaching to flutists as a complement to their flute lessons with their flute teachers. My focus is on helping flutists practice more efficiently, learn more quickly and effectively, and prepare for auditions and performances. I have been a guest speaker at the National Flute Association conference and have given master classes in effective practice and performance techniques at schools and universities.

Clarinet

I offer coaching to clarinetists as a complement to their clarinet lessons with their clarinet teachers. My focus is on helping clarinetists practice more efficiently, learn more quickly and effectively, and prepare for auditions and performances. I have been a guest speaker at several national and regional music educator conferences and have given master classes in effective practice and performance techniques for band and orchestra wind instruments at schools and universities.

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Drums

I offer coaching to drummers as a complement to their drum lessons with their drum teachers. My focus is on helping drummers practice more efficiently, learn more quickly and effectively, and prepare for auditions and performances. I have been a guest speaker at several national and regional music educator conferences and have given master classes in effective practice and performance techniques at schools and universities. My book, Musician’s Practice Planner, has been endorsed by such drum greats... Read More

Trumpet

I offer coaching to trumpeters as a complement to their trumpet lessons with their trumpet teachers. My focus is on helping trumpet players practice more efficiently, learn more quickly and effectively, and prepare for auditions and performances. I have been a guest speaker at several national and regional music educator conferences and have given master classes in effective practice and performance techniques at schools and universities. My book, Musician’s Practice Planner, has been endorsed... Read More

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University of California, Berkeley

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David will travel within 0 miles of Oakland, CA 94605.

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