Open curriculum

The material
worth knowing.

A growing map of the foundations that support contemporary bass playing. Each area will connect explanation, exercises, and tests.

Prerequisite

Basic music reading

OpenBass assumes you can read basic rhythm and pitch notation. Reading is important, but it is not part of this curriculum.

Pulse, subdivision, placement, metre, and rhythmic vocabulary.

Curriculum in development

Note names, intervals, shapes, positions, and the relationships across the neck.

Curriculum in development

Intervals, chords, scales, function, voice leading, and harmonic movement.

Curriculum in development

Hear, sing, recognise, and reproduce the material before relying on the instrument.

Curriculum in development