terryblyth

Hi everyone, I'm now able to offer more slots teaching at home in Walton-on-Thames, KT12. I've worked with a range of acts over the years, but perhaps more importantly I'm concerned with providing good quality tuition; I'm fully qualified with an MMus (Master of Music) and a Diploma for Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector. I'd guesstimate I've taught about 100 students a year, and a significant portion of them have gone on to do well in the industry. I'm also regularly involved in training music teachers how to teach for a wide variety of ages, skills and experience. I've been delivering (and have written for) the Rockschool syllabus for over ten years. Many of my private and college students have benefited from the structure that this provides. If grades aren't for you, I'm also happy to work with you on individual elements of your playing and music theory. I can also help you develop your wider industry knowledge. If distance is a factor, I do offer Skype/FaceTime lessons; whichever path you want to take, all you'll need is a bass - I'll provide everything else! All my contact details are on my website; I'm happy to just have a chat and see if I can help you progress. There's also a tonne of free charts on there to practice your reading (both lead sheet and notation style) so grab them and start playing along to songs that you recognise - it's not as scary as you might think! (I *really* should update that blog at some point...) I'd love to hear from you; feel free to get in touch and have a natter! My website address is https://bassguitartuition.com/ Terry P.S. Card payments now available!

Due to the demise of my MobileMe hosting, I've just shifted a load of charts over to a new site; currently this is at [url="http://terryblyth.wordpress.com"]http://terryblyth.wordpress.com[/url] but I may get a re-direct by the end of next month. It's just a stop-gap for now until I can get my head around WordPress, but at least it's functional. I make no promises as to the accuracy, lay-out or anything else(!), but hopefully it'll get anybody out of a hole if a last-minute gig's sprung on them. I'm away for 10 days from tomorrow, but as soon as I can find my batch .sib > .pdf plug-in I'll whack the rest up.

[quote name='peety' post='900997' date='Jul 21 2010, 03:19 PM']thanks simon i'll check it out when i get home think it may be a late night cheers steve[/quote] Hope this helps.

Hi all! I've put it on eBay [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250377131629"]here[/url] - it's got a starting price of £0.01 with no reserve. Happy bidding! Terry

Thanks for the kind words about the band - funnily enough, from this week I'm stopping running it (although I'll still be playing bass) A quick word about the transcription - it's very "note-y", and in reality it doesn't need to be that detailed. I was only originally intending to do a lead-sheet (it was a first dance request for a gay wedding) but the playing on it was so tasty I thought I'd try to get all the little nuances in. If anybody is looking at this thinking "I'll never be able to read this" then don't panic - 90% of written music isn't that involved - particularly that little 32nd note run on the first page! I just started something and thought I may as well carry on the rest of the piece like that. If anybody has the first ever issue of Bassist magazine, I remember there being a transcription in that which drew a fair amount of criticism at the time for being an ABBA piece. It was the first in a series of A-Z bass lines. If anybody still has that, it's likely that would have had TAB underneath it.

Hope this helps

I'm afraid without the CDs. They'd make great reading for someone though regardless. Gratis to anyone who can collect from Thames Ditton (between Esher and Surbiton).

I'm going to be biased here as I have some involvement with Rockschool, but I do think they have a massive edge over the RGT system. Whilst it's true that the RGT syllabus is more geared towards arpeggios and moving patterns, what isn't really there is playing songs, and playing songs with other musicians. I think as bass players it's important to note that as much as we practice in the house, you're generally (Steve Lawson et al. aside!) only going to gig with other people. I'll be the first to admit that a lot of the songs in the Rockschool syllabus are, from a general listening perspective, pretty vapid. But they do encourage students to push themselves, and try out a lot of things that the RGT just wants on its own without any interaction from other musicians. It's not as explicit because it's in the context of a piece of music, but it's there. RGT have done a lot of work in promoting themselves within the education sector, and are possibly more widely recognised. But I think the Rockschool stuff is validated by Trinity, so you shouldn't have a problem there. I also recently let my RGT membership expire, after the third quarterly magazine came through with either miniscule or no reference to bass at all, and hardly anything for it at the teachers conferences they hold. It does appear that bass is a complete afterthought on their syllabus.

Despite being a working player for the last few years, I've only just got my first upright. As the field of work in electric seems to be narrowing all the time, I figured it would be wise to stay slightly ahead of the curve. Anyway, I don't tend to post much on here these days, apart from the odd transcription that I chuck up on the theory section. However, I forgot how good it was to have one-on-one lessons, and a big thumbs-up goes to Jake for having an infinite amount of patience. I *think* I'm now only two days away from having the best bow grip in Surrey. All that's left is to learn how to play the rest of the instrument *cough* If anyone on here is considering lessons, they would definitely do a lot worse than to book a session with Jake. I've come away feeling a lot of enthusiasm. It's quite a rare experience to find somebody that's both a good musician and a good teacher (quite often you either get one or the other) but I definitely fell on my feet here!

Thank ye very much - actually I've had a read-through and I'm not entirely convinced a lot of it is accurate, so I may give it a going-over when I get the chance.