Music Lifeboat Presents: Double Bass

Take Double Bass Lessons with Virtuoso Musician Brian Johnson, bassist in The Los Angeles Philharmonic. Here are 25 video lessons that will teach you how to play the double bass today! The curriculum was created by some of the leading music educators in the world. This step-by-step method will teach you the basics as well as advanced techniques. (Music notation is included).

The lessons cover:
Meet Your Teacher
Parts of Bass
Holding Your Bass
Plucking Open Strings: Pizzicato
Tuning
The Bow
Bow Hold
German Arco
French Arco
Au Claire
Staccato & Legato
Introducing 3rd Finger
Long Bows & String Crossings
Shifting 4th Position
Shifting 2nd Position
The D major scale
The A major scale
The G major scale
Triads, Arpeggios
Double stops
Lifting the bow (circle bows)
Stopped bows/hooked bows
Slurs, whole bows and legato
16th notes
2-octave scale
Ode To Joy
Simple Gifts



Music Lifeboat’s double bass lessons provide world-class video instruction at a low cost to help you become an excellent bassist and musician. 10% of all proceeds go to the non-profit The Harmony Project of America, a nonprofit that brings music education and instruments to underserved students. We are working on a solution to bring free music education to the world that is sustainable. We can use your support by joining us on social media so we can work together to begin a movement so every child has access to music education. To learn more visit our website at www.musiclifeboat.org