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Frequently invited to seminars all over the world, she runs her own music school, step up music vallejo. Ariane cap music theory maestro for bass ariane is author of the best selling book music theory for the bass player and is a very prominent figure in online music education from both her own website and the sbl academy shes also very active as a gigging bass player in her adopted home of california. Ariane has a bass teaching column on called talking technique and regularly guests on scotts bass academy. Ariane cap has given us a remarkably comprehensive and accessible work suitable for bassists and all musicians who play with bassists.
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Ariane cap is a bassist, educator, author, blogger, composer, rocket scientist, racing car driver, wait not the last two, currently living in california. An eclectic and versatile bassist, she has covered many styles, from rock keith olsenfleetwood. I have always had a knack for teaching even back in school. May 21, 2017 the overall impression left by this book is of the relation and interdependence of theory, technique, body movement, breathing all of life as we live it really, and how it affects the bass player. Bassist educator groove geek free bass video lessons, performances and all things low end are at welcome to my channel. An eclectic and versatile bassist, she has covered many styles, from rock keith olsenfleetwood mac, jazz mimi fox, montclair womens big band to folk and flamenco muriel anderson, to classical music the mozart band, and top 40, latin disco generation esmeralda to punk rock. In 2019 ariane was one of four winners of an online bass player magazine poll and was featured on the july 2019 cover of the magazine, dubbed the education guru. Nov 01, 2015 fortunately, ariane cap has adroitly tackled this pedagogical paradox with her new book music theory for the bass player. This is the definitive resource for the enthusiastic bassist. Today were chatting to ariane cap about twohanded tapping and geeking out on bass guitars. Jun 01, 2015 ariane cap austrian ariane cap is a multi instrumentalist, educator, author, writer and composer.
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