Every course we publish.
Method courses for electric and upright bass, plus a transcription library at $10 a track. One-time purchase, lifetime access, no subscription. Taught by working New York musicians.
The Flagship · The Modern Method For Upright Bass
The New Simandl
What Cole is known for in the upright jazz world. His rewrite of the 1881 Simandl method, refingered around open strings as free space, so the bass finally moves.
$97
Cole Davis · Juilliard
Walk Like Ray Brown
Ray Brown's walking-line formula: a cadence every two bars and one change in every phrase. A video walkthrough on upright, a 37-page book, and five of his lines written out note for note.
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$397
Cole Davis & Rotem Sivan
The Language of Jazz
Everything you need to start playing jazz: ii-V-I lines, bebop scales, the modes, chords, and soloing over standards. 48 lessons, taught on bass and guitar.
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$77
Cole Davis & Aaron Seeber · Drums
The Locked-In Bassist
How to lock in with any drummer who counts it off, even the ones who rush, drag and throw fills at you. Filmed in the studio from the bass chair and the drum chair, with The Laws of Swing PDF.
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$47
Cole Davis · Juilliard · Peter Cincotti
The 15 Minute Warmup: Electric
10 exercises. The same daily warmup Cole runs before every gig: different city, different bass, same routine. PDFs, Finale files, backing tracks with bass and without.
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$47
Cole Davis · Juilliard · Peter Cincotti
The 15 Minute Warmup: Upright
11 exercises. Simandl-correct throughout. The 15-minute daily routine that comes before Simandl. Intonation locked in by song 1.
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$37
Cole Davis · Juilliard
The 7-Day Walking Bass Breakthrough
11 lessons, 7-day method. The right-notes / wrong-notes system for walking through ii-V-Is, stepwise tunes, and static modal chords on electric bass.
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$57
Paul "Papa Bear" Johnson · Taylor Swift · Broadway
The Five-Feel Groove System
16 lessons on beat placement, pocket, and feel, taught by a Broadway / Taylor Swift bassist. Five feels you can move between on command. Works in any genre.
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$57
Anthony Muthurajah · Brand New Heavies · Supremes
The Diagonal Method
~2.5-hour video method. Solo across the strings and the fretboard. Rudiments → guide tones → three-note cells → rhythm.
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$67
Cole Davis · Juilliard
Jazz Soloing on Electric Bass: from the Beginning
A 5-lesson chiseling method, from "I can walk a line" to "I can solo through changes." No scales, no modes, no bebop licks you can't use.
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$77
Alex Claffy · Smalls · Smoke
From Two to Four
8-section live masterclass filmed with pianist Victor Gould and drummer Joe Strasser. How to walk, groove, and lead a real rhythm section.
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$77
Russell Hall · Wynton Marsalis · Roy Hargrove
The Essential Groove
Russell Hall on the art of bass. A solo course on sound, idiom, and lineage, plus the Groove Clinic Replay (with Cole Davis) as a bonus.
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$97
Cole Davis · Juilliard
Jazz Soloing on Upright Bass: from the Beginning
The same 5-move chiseling method, demonstrated on upright. Same hands. Same harmony. Different instrument.
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$97
Cole Davis · Juilliard
Walking Basslines on Upright Bass: from the Beginning
A 5-lesson method on upright. The 1-3-5-7: the foundational walking method Ron Carter taught Cole at Juilliard.
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$97
Cole Davis · Juilliard
Intermediate Soloing and Improvisation Concepts for Upright Bass
The system underneath every solo you love: thirds & sevenths, the exercise, the 9, and the half steps that turn it into bebop. Drilled over an F blues, Autumn Leaves, and a standard. Every solo transcribed.
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$47
Cole Davis · Juilliard
Walking on Electric Bass: Part 2
Part 2 of 3. The full walking vocabulary working players use: the six right notes, the licks Ron Carter passed down, and the one principle that makes a line swing instead of repeat. Worked through an F blues and Autumn Leaves.
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$67
Cole Davis · Juilliard
Bebop for Bass: The Paul Chambers Approach
Learn to solo on upright so it actually sounds like jazz, by borrowing the language of Paul Chambers, the one player who translated Charlie Parker onto the instrument. Twelve of his licks, broken down note by note.
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$67
Cole Davis · Juilliard
Play What You Hear
Learn your favorite songs by ear, the voice-first way. Sing it, find it on the piano, play it on your instrument. Melody, chords, all eight intervals taught as feelings, and the extensions on top.
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$97
Cole Davis · Juilliard
Soloing in Thumb Position
Solo and burn up high on upright with the Freedom of Movement system: the 0-1-3 and 0-1-2 fingerings, pivoting instead of shifting, and the thumb as a capo. Bebop, fourths, and outside playing over real changes.
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The Transcription Library
A growing collection of the bass parts that shaped the music: electric and upright, every era. $10 per transcription. New ones added every week.
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New methods, new instructors, and live formats are in development. Start with any course. You'll hear about what's next from inside the school.
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