The Path Towards Musical Freedom
The ultimate goal with this course is to develop the connection between what you’re hearing in your head and your ability to rapidly replicate this on your instrument.
Through a detailed study of intervals, scales, modes and techniques to sharpen your ear you’ll get quicker at being able to hear any song for the first time and know what to play to fit in with the harmony and rhythm. You’ll develop the confidence for your ear to guide you through musical performance whilst also improving your knowledge of theory simultaneously.
This course is suitable for all musicians who sing or play any instrument.
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.
Course Content
Course Includes
- 5 Modules
- 25 Lessons
- 9 Tests
- Lifetime Access
- Student Support Group
The tests work now! I spent about an hour every night listening to the major intervals and doing the exercises on my bass before taking the test on major intervals. It felt like taking the test was helping my ear so I took it close to 8 times. The first 7 times I was able to find 15 out of 20 of the questions but I didn’t want to move on until I was able to get 18 out of 20. Luckily on the eighth try that is exactly what I got so I am moving on to the minor intervals. The 3rd, 6th and 7th intervals sound very foreign to me so this might take some more time. I kind of binge studied to get the major intervals and felt a bit burnout after reaching my goal so I am going to try to put less pressure on myself for the minor intervals…
Great progress Matt and that’s great that you can use the test results to show clearly how much your ear is improving. I’d guess that because of how your ear has developed with the major intervals that you will actually take less time to master the minor intervals. I find the minor 6th can be a difficult interval to sing, easier to hear than to sing for me but you’re clearly improving so nothing will stop you.