This is a special residential course.
The course focuses on playing blues bass lines across multiple blues styles but on Sunday you’ll get the chance to sit in with a professional rhythm section (rhythm guitar, bass and drums) and put what you’ve learned into practice.
Exhilarating, educational and exciting!
Important – you’re about to reserve a place on a course that is officially FULL
This residential course is focused on taking your bass lines for the Blues to the next level whilst having a fun and sociable weekend with a group of hobby players.
But we’re also offering a great opportunity to play along with a professional rhythm section (rhythm guitar, bass and drums).
Along side this Blues Bass Jamboree course we’ll have another totally separate course called Blues Guitar Jamboree running. The two groups will join together on the Sunday – read on!
So this Jamboree weekend is split into two stages:
Friday and Saturday are pretty much the same as any of our weekend courses i.e. learning, jamming and playing. We’ll cover following aspects of the Blues: shuffle/straight feels, arpeggios, pentatonic and blues scales, playing chords, walking bass lines, following the chord progression, learning the fretboard, improvising a solo, left and right hand techniques, classic bass lines, major and minor Blues, 12 and 8 bar forms, playing in a key (diatonic), playing out of the key (non-diatonic), creating riffs, phrasing, etc. You will also be exploring many different styles of blues, such as; Traditional Chicago Blues, Country, Rock & Jazz, etc.
On the Sunday things will be different! A professional rhythm section will be available to support any groups or individuals who want to perform songs that we cover over the weekend (including any Saturday evening projects) or any songs that players would just like to perform (we’d need to some advance notice of what these songs would be). The band would offer advice and guidance on the performance and some suggestions as to how to improve things and, assuming we have the time, you’ll probably have the opportunity to repeat the performance. As indicated earlier, the guitar players will join forces with the bass players for these Sunday performances.
By the end of the course, you should have the tools and understanding to play and perform some cool Blues songs and tunes; and feel more comfortable performing them!
Note You’ll be learning and playing as part of a group of diverse players; our tutor might therefore decide to tweak things to fit the group’s overall playing level and combined aspirations.
Low-intermediate-and-above bass players.
If you can follow a 12 bar chord progression using the basic major, minor, dom7 and m7 arpeggios and have reasonable knowledge of the fretboard then you should be fine.
There are a number of ways of attending our courses: residential, non-residential and sharing with a spouse/partner.
Our price for players is all-inclusive:
Our prices for following are also available:
Our weekend courses are teaching/playing guitar-fests but they’re paced to suit the group so they’re as much about having fun and enjoying a sociable time with fellow hobby players.
Playing together as a group is the best, and most enjoyable, way of learning and experiencing music. The courses have limited numbers to ensure the correct tutor-to-group ratio – book early to avoid disappointment.
Make a weekend of it!