Learn from Great Upright Bass Teachers

My name is Jess Block. I'm from Long Island, New York. I started playing the bass at age 10. My primary teachers in grade school were Emil Botti, Eugene Levinson, Joel Braun and Ron Castillo. I earned a degree from Juilliard Pre-College in 2009. I attended Manhattan School of Music for my Bachelors where I studied with Tim Cobb.

Doug Byrkit hailing from St. Louis MO is a singer/songwriter with the national recording artist group “Odds Lane” and the current touring/recording bassist for the International Blues Award winning artist "Mike Zito". Doug graduated from Southern IL University with both a BA and Master’s Degree in Music Performance.

I am a highly sought after bassist in the Southwest Missouri area who has a multitude of experiences in all sorts of musical settings. Over the past twelve years I have performed with countless jazz and rock groups in the area such as the Missouri Jazz Orchestra, The Jin J. X Group,The Theorists, and Snaps for Sinners.

Hello! I’m Kevin Stever. I am a multi instrumentalist , professional musician, arranger, producer and music educator residing in the sunny state of Florida. I have a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Central Florida. I majored in music with a minor in Spanish. I have been teaching for over 30 years.

Jarrett is a professional bassist based in Houston, Texas who comes from Albany, New York. He is a Section Bassist for the Tulsa Symphony (TSO), and Principal Bass for Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (SoNA). Jarrett has performed with Springfield Symphony (MO), Signature, Bartlesville, Arkansas, Texarkana, Shreveport, and South Arkansas Symphonies, Arkansas and Lawton Philharmonic…

Hello, I'm from El Bolsón Patagonia Argentina. I am a graduated from Escuela de Musica Popular de Avllaneda (EMPA) with the specialization of bass and double bass in tango and jazz. I worked in various musical genres such as jazz, soul, funk, tango, folklore, bossa, rock, etc.

LessonFace Teacher of the Year 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 with over 4,300 lessons taught since 2013! From a recent "first lesson" parent: Thank you for an awesome first lesson and for even spending extra time. That's how you can tell someone has passion for what they teach. I do the same when I'm teaching cardiology :).

I'm a musician based in Cape Town, South Africa who started out as a pianist and then migrated over to Bass Guitar. I've been an industry professional for nearly twenty years and have performed locally and internationally with some fairly notable people such as Johnny Clegg, Jonathan Butler and Nils Landgren to name a few!

Spencer Jensen is a double bassist, composer, and teacher who compliments a Western classical performance career with a foot in Americana. As a teacher, Spencer has taught bass privately for over 10 years and his students have ranged from age 8 to 70+.

Andrew Martelle is an Orange County, California bassist and music educator. Andrew has played professionally with Bill Cunliffe, Freda Payne, and and appears frequently as a guest artist at Disneyland. He plays regularly in Orange County and Los Angeles in a wide variety of musical settings.