Mondays, 8:30-9:45 pm, beginning March 10
$120.00 advance / $130.00 after March 3
Register online

Get started playing bass lines in a wide spectrum of styles, ranging from country and blues to pop and bossa nova. You’ll learn essential bass theory, some important left- and right-hand techniques, and you’ll feel what it’s like to set the groove for the band as we play along with recordings. An ability to read bass clef is not required, but you’ll start picking up that skill if you’re not already a reader. Upright and guitar-style bassists welcome.

If you have questions, you may contact the instructor at chuck.ervin@att.net.

Chuck Ervin studied jazz bass with Glenn Richman (bassist with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson) and currently plays folk music with Euphonia, classic country with the Mike Stadler & Mary Gibbons Band, jazz and pop with guitarist Chris Grampp, and occasionally Celtic folk/rock with Wake the Dead, among others. He has performed with many Bay Area musicians, including Keith Little, Jim Nunally, Sylvia Herold, Tony Marcus, Joe Craven, Ed Johnson, and Julian Smedley. He teaches group classes at music camp and at his Oakland home, as well as individual lessons.