Wednesdays, 7:45-9:00 pm, beginning March 13
$120.00 advance / $130.00 after March 4
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Advance beyond the root-fifth approach and create walking-bass lines that propel your band's music. You'll learn how to build walking-bass lines suitable for swing, folk, blues, pop, and jazz. Each week we'll play a new song with a new bass line and will dig into the theory so that you can then use arpeggios, scale tones, and chromaticism to build your own bass lines. Expect lots of in-class playing. Good for upright and guitar basses.

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.