Teaching Electric Bass can be tricky.

Unlike guitar and piano, there is no set methodology… there is not the Jaconian Method, which is countered with the Jamersonian approach. The Will Lee Pedagogy doesn’t really exist; Pino Palladino (as far as I know) hasn’t released his teaching curriculum; Marcus Miller hath not yet scribed the Bass Beginner’s Bible. Victor Wooten did write one of the greatest music teaching/learning/experiencing/philosophizing/living books of all time when he wrote The Music Lesson (which you should probably buy), and there are certainly books out there for electric bass learning… lots of books…
But it still feels disjointed.
Add that to your average guitar/bass/whatever lesson at your average music store, and you’ve got kids coming in every week, learning songs, learning riffs, learning their favorite licks, but not learning actual music. They are being fed fish on a weekly basis, but they have never been taught how to fish.
So.
How do you teach someone to fish… which is to say, how do you teach someone music? Further – how do you teach a 13 year-old kid who has been weened on the system of progression, scoring, levels, experience points, bonuses, and near-instant rewards of glorious, beautiful video games… how to fish (musically)?

Well, as a lover of progression, scoring, levels, experience points, bonuses, near-instant rewards and glorious, beautiful video games… why not just borrow the model? It fits rather well.
Enter: Lessons of True Rockage.

I’m hoping to unveil my glorious plans here as the weeks go on. I’d very much love to post some video lessons and some playalongs as well… but we’ll see. Did I mention that my wife and I just had a baby?
Well, we did. It is unbelievably amazingly wonderful and perfect.

So, when I’m not teaching or playing or changing diapers, I’ll do my best to reveal the Lessons of True Rockage plan.
See you soon.

-GB