Private Lessons

Learn, Play, Enjoy!

Discover the joy of playing double bass and electric bass through personalised lessons tailored to your goals, ability, and musical interests.

Whether you're picking up the bass for the very first time or exploring advanced jazz concepts, every lesson is built around your goals, your favourite music, and your pace. Let's make learning bass something you genuinely look forward to every week

Book your first lesson today and discover just how rewarding learning bass can be.

Discover the joy of playing bass with expert guidance from Zoltan Dekany, who has been a Principal Lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire for over 25 years. Whether you're picking up the bass for the first time or looking to develop advanced skills, every lesson is tailored to your goals, interests, and musical journey.

Together, you'll explore everything from solid technique and great timekeeping to harmony, improvisation, bass line creation, and expressive soloing. You'll learn how to build strong musical foundations, develop confidence, and create bass lines that truly support and inspire the music.

Lessons are available on both electric bass and double bass, with practical exercises, personalised feedback, and a clear learning path designed to help you make steady progress. Whether you want to improve your groove, expand your harmonic knowledge, read music more confidently, or simply enjoy making music, you'll receive the guidance and support you need every step of the way.

Most importantly, these lessons are designed to be enjoyable. You'll learn through music you love, celebrate your progress, and develop the skills to become a confident, creative bassist.

Whether you're a complete beginner, returning to the instrument, or an experienced player ready for your next challenge, your bass journey starts here.

 

Master the doublebass and bassguitar, with personal bass lessons tailored to your individual needs.

Electric Bass Lessons cover:

Working on popular basslines in all styles. Sight reading exercises. Learning major and minor tonalities. Bassline building and soloing.  Learning Jazz standards. Comprehensive studies of Scales/Chords. Rhythmic studies of subdivisions and their applications to grooves. Learning the fingerboard through reading simple to advanced bass/solo lines and harmonic/melodic exercises. Help with transcribing your favourite basslines, or solos. Ear training is organically part of the above. Lessons include devising a practice plan.

Double Bass lessons cover:

A step by step learning of the fingerboard, moving/shifting from position to position. Learning pieces from various jazz and classical study books. Appropriate scale/chord studies, reading exercises based on basslines and soloing to strengthen the student's playing ability as we move through each position. Learning Jazz standards. Help with transcriptions. Ear training, and learning basic to advanced harmony are organically part of the above. Lessons include devising a practice plan.