private lessons

  1. T

    Rules/Guidelines for Private Lessons Students?

    Hello my dear TBers, I teach private lessons (both online and in person). I love doing it, but some of my students keep cancelling classes, sometimes like minutes before the lesson. Normally I can reschedule, but it's starting to wear on me. Also, these students "never have time to practice"...
  2. matthewbrown

    Back in the teaching studio again

    I took a long hiatus from teaching bass, but at a jam session a guy liked my solo and asked for lessons. So I posted in a FB group that I was starting up again, and now I also have a ten-year-old girl taking lessons. She studied violin for a little bit and her dad plays bass; she wants to get...
  3. Groove Finder

    Best Way to Learn Bass (newbie)

    Good morning All! I am looking for some advice/feed back. Back in May 2019 I ruptured my Achilles tendon playing baseball and had to have it surgically repaired. That meant from mid May to about mid August I was laid up with either a cast on or a walking boot that I could bear weight on it...
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    A Few Words on Private Lessons

    I don't know if this has been covered here on talkbass before, and if it has, disregard and keep moving. This is self-indulgent, and for that I humbly apologize. I felt like writing, and I think this could help somebody, or at least waste some time, which I know we are all about here. There are...