The next 30 students who enrol in The African Bass Masterclass course will also receive 30 days of interactive support and guidance. Completely Free!
£47
£47
£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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To ensure the progress of each student and to offer fully interactive support this offer is limited to 30 students only.
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:
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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.
Register today and get immediate lifetime access to the following
£97
£47
£97
£47
To ensure the progress of each student and to offer fully interactive support this offer is limited to 30 students only.
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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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.
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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.