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The next 30 students who enrol in The African Bass Masterclass course will also receive 30 days of interactive support and guidance. Completely Free!
› the african bass masterclass 2.5 hour online course
£47
› 4 weeks of live & interactive lessons
£497
› 30 days access to the students only support group
£97
To ensure the progress of each student and to offer fully interactive support this offer is limited to 30 students only.
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The African Bass Curriculum
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Module 1 - Learn Soukous And Sebene Bass - 49.39
- Lesson 1 – What We’ll Be Covering 2.40
- Lesson 2 – A Brief History Of Congolese Music 4.23
- Lesson 3 – Learning Soukous and Sebene Basslines 2.31
- Lesson 4 – The Congolese Thumb Technique 7.12
- Lesson 5 – The Formula For Adding Variations 5.40
- Lesson 6 – Putting Variations Together In A Live Context 3.07
- Lesson 7 – Practising Your Own Basslines 5.23
- Lesson 8 – Soukous Bass Style On A 1 4 5 4 Chord Progression 4.32
- Lesson 9 – Going Deeper Into Congolese Bass 8.18
- Lesson 10 – Try Creating With The Backing Track 5.51
Module 2 - How To Play Zimbabwean Music - 27.21
- Lesson 11 – My Journey In Zimbabwean Music 3.04
- Lesson 12 – How To Play Sungura Basslines1.48
- Lesson 13 – Arpeggios in African Music 3.36
- Lesson 14 – Experiment With Your Own Basslines5.23
- Lesson 15 – Learn Sungura Grooves In E Major2.28
- Lesson 16 – Staccato Zimbabwean Basslines And Variations7.27
- Lesson 17 – Put It Into Practice Yourself5.23
Module 3 - Study Zouk Basslines - 33.26
- Lesson 18 – How Zouk Came Back To Africa 3.04
- Lesson 19 – Playing Zouk With Bouncing Basslines3.29
- Lesson 20 – Varying The Chordtones To Keep It Interesting7.50
- Lesson 22 – Playing Two Chord Zouk With Flowing Basslines6.27
- Lesson 23 – Attempt Your Own Zouk Grooves With The Band 6.27
Module 4 - Translate Pop Basslines - 16.45
- Lesson 24 – Billie Jean – Michael Jackson3.28
- Lesson 25 – Come Together – The Beatles5.11
- Lesson 26 – Under Pressure – Queen 8.06
Module 5 - Basic Techniques & Ear Training - 32.34
- Lesson 27 – Basic Techniques And Dexterity Exercises8.29
- Lesson 28 – Learning The Scales Throughout The Fretboard5.00
- Lesson 29 – Ear Training Ab Major5.31
- Lesson 30 – Ear Training Bb Major2.55
- Lesson 31 – Ear Training C# Minor4.47
- Lesson 32 – Ear Training Rhythms3.45
- Lesson 33 – Thanks For Learning With Us2.07
To ensure the progress of each student and to offer fully interactive support this offer is limited to 30 students only.
The Ultimate Learning Experience
4 weeks of live & interactive lessons
The live lessons are here for you to benefit from direct feedback and instruction from Edd Bateman. Get the most out of these sessions by ensuring your webcam shows your head, shoulders and both hands. This way Edd can offer immediate suggestions on what can improve your technique. This is also an opportunity to ensure you get your questions answered about anything you are curious about whilst working through the African Bass Masterclass curriculum.
All live sessions are also recorded for later viewing if required. Dates are:
- Tuesday Oct 18
- Tuesday Oct 25
- Tuesday Nov 1
- Tuesday Nov 8
Times are:
- 6pm – London Time
- 7pm – London Time
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30 days access to the student support group
To ensure you avoid any procastination you’ll be set practical playing assignments every week plus extra homework if it’s clear that you have technique issues which need fixing. The assigments will be simple camera phone filmed videos playing what you have studied in the curriculum, once each week and will all be posted into the support group for Edd to review.
This is an extra opportunity to connect with Edd outside of the live lesson times where you can also ask questions via written post or video.
If you can’t attend the live lessons this is another way you can benefit from interactive learning.
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Become Fluent in African Bass
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the african bass masterclass – 2.5 hour online course
£97
4 weeks of live & interactive lessons
£497
30 days access to the students only support group
£97
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£47
To ensure the progress of each student and to offer fully interactive support this offer is limited to 30 students only.
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We’re so confident that you’ll love learning with us, and make improvement. If you don’t think you’ve improved at all from taking these lessons just send us an email and we’ll promptly refund you in full, plus you can keep access to the course.
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Meet Your Teacher
At age 14, in the rural Devon countryside town of Tavistock, (UK) Edd Bateman was sitting in his bedroom playing heavy metal basslines. Suddenly his Mum arrived and said you need to go to the next-door neighbour’s house right now and take your bass amp. ‘Chimanimani’, who were a Sungura and Chimurenga dance band from Harare, Zimbabwe had just arrived in England and were there auditioning for a bass player to join their upcoming national tour. Despite Edd’s youthful inexperience and limited knowledge of theory he got the job and did the first 2 hour show just 11 days later. Within a month the band played together at African nightclubs in London, universities and then Glastonbury festival. Edd worked with Chimanimani for 6 years.
In his early 20s he took the first of many trips and tours to West Africa and instantly fell in with the famous Cissokho family of griots from Southern Senegal and began his deep training performing regular 5 hour shows with Solo Cissokho, Seckou Keita, Sadio Cissokho and the whole Dialikunda family as well as on-stage guest spots with Cheikh Lo, Orchestra Baobab and Super Diamono.
Now back in the UK and with thousands of concerts under his belt with bands from all over the world he developed his skills serving as bandleader for ‘London Astrobeat Orchestra’ and ‘Edd Bateman’s West African Love Affair’. In the lockdown he saw the need to begin documenting the brilliant African bass guitar styles he’s dedicated his life to learning and so founded the World Music Method to share this knowledge with the world.
Edd Bateman Through The Years
Chimanimani
2001
Bulawayo
2009
Sadio Cissokho
2016
London Astrobeat
2020
Become African Groove Confident
access to the course and all bonuses for only
£47
To ensure the progress of each student and to offer fully interactive support this offer is limited to 30 students only.
….. your African musical repertoire with melodic Sebene basslines.
….. the traditional Congolese right hand thumb approach with accuracy.
….. your rhythm section relationship with contextual groove examples.
….. your entire musicality with new authentic African bass techniques.