{"id":372,"date":"2013-05-09T17:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T22:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisbatesmusic.net\/?page_id=372"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T00:54:34","slug":"teaching-lessons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/doublebates.com\/teaching-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\tTeaching &#038; Lessons\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<p>As a bassist it&#8217;s important to develop good fundamental musical skills. I&#8217;ve benefited from some great teachers in my life and I try to give my students the most well rounded perspective they can get. If you know my work you know jazz is my specialty, but I have 13 years of classical training and have played professionally for the last 20 years in all styles of music. I have a vast interest in music and listen to everything: world music (afro-pop, reggae, indian, latin etc), jazz, country, metal, rock, funk, folk and classical.<\/p>\n<p>I teach upright and electric bass out of my home in New Hope, MN. Some of the concepts\/techniques I teach include fingerboard knowledge, right\/left hand connection, sound production, improvisation, metronome games, composition and creative thinking!<\/p>\n<p>I am willing to take any level or age of student as long as you are willing to put in the effort to get better.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to individual lessons I can offer advice to your band or group as a consultant. I come and listen to your rehearsal and offer critical analysis of what I hear. Do you want to deepen the groove in your rhythm section? Improve your soloing? Get tighter as a band? I can help. For an hourly rate I will come and work with your ensemble.<\/p>\n<p>Contact me for rates and availability.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Bates<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/shabbabates\">Check my youtube channel<\/a> for many videos of examples of my playing.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/doublebates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chris-Bates-Speaks.jpg\" alt=\"photo \u00a9 Andrea Canter\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"652\" width=\"479\" title=\"Chris Bates Speaks\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching &#038; Lessons As a bassist it&#8217;s important to develop good fundamental musical skills. I&#8217;ve benefited from some great teachers in my life and I try to give my students the most well rounded perspective they can get. If you know my work you know jazz is my specialty, but I have 13 years of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doublebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebates.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}