Gustavo Martinez
About
Bass player with more than 10 years of experience as a performer. I always like to share with my students everything I've learned in my life as a musician, and like to approach every lesson in the best possible way.
Lessonface teacher since April 2020.
Through all these years of music career I’ve worked playing different styles of music: pop, rock, latin jazz, bossa nova, jazz, salsa, Brazilian music, funk.
I play electric and upright bass and will be happy to help you in your learning process to improve your bass lines, as well as your knowledge in music theory.
Bass / music lessons can be in english, spanish and portuguese.
Teaching Style
I like to combine theory and practice while teaching, I believe that both subjects are equally important in music. The most important thing for a musician is been able to listen, understand and react to anything you listen. Therefore, I teach theory and show musical examples to understand how something is used and applied in a real musical context.
The electric bass, upright bass or baby bass lesson consists of: technical exercises, reading exercises, rhythm exercises, playing and creating your own bass lines. The focus of the lesson depends on what each student wants to learn (salsa, latin jazz, Afro-cuban, bossa nova, samba, Brazilian music, jazz, rock, pop, funk). I want to share my knowledge of all the different styles of music I've been playing , with anyone who is interested in improving their way of playing. One of my advantages is been able to teach in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Curriculum
Theory
- Understand the structure of the major and minor scales.
- Comprehension of intervals (the distance between 2 notes) and how they change the structure of a major or minor scale.
- Learn how to play triads on the bass, as well as identifying which are the available triads on the major and natural minor scales.
- Learn to play 7th chords and how to use them on a real music situation (walking bass, improvisation).
Ear Training
- Learn to identify the sound of every interval on the major scale.
- Learn to differentiate a major triad from a minor triad, just by listening.
- Get to learn a song just by listening, without having to look to any tab or video on the internet.
Rhythm
- Learn how to get a good control of rhythm by playing different exercises of quarter, 8th, 16th notes and triplets.
- Learn to create your own bass line, with an interesting rhythm
- Be able to play any rhythm from any song you like
Reading
- Learn the basics of reading on bass clef, and be able to read any rhythm you want to play.