Double bass / electric bass lessons, jazz and classical music experience

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My name is Andreas, I am a studied bass player from Essen and offer qualified double bass and electric bass lessons.

possible topics:
-Technology
Bow game
-Improvisation
-Repertoire
-Transcriptions
-Harmony

About my electric bass and double bass lessons:
First and foremost, I see the student's interests. My individual, student-oriented curriculum is based on them. Constant exchange between student and teacher offers the opportunity to learn new things and to discover what makes teaching so exciting for me.

Vita:
2011 - 2013 double bass lessons with John Goldsby (WDR Big Band), Dieter Manderscheid (Hfmt Cologne)
since 2013 workshops with Ben van Gelder, Reinier Baas, Billy Hart, Alex von Schlippenbach, Gerd Dudek, Wolfgang Schmidtke, Chris Potter, Joe Lovano, Terence Blanchard, Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, among others
2013 - 2016 Youth Jazz Orchestra NRW
2016 - 2018 Federal Jazz Orchestra
2013 - 2018 Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, jazz double bass studies (Bachelor of Music) with Robert Landfermann
since 2018 Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, jazz double bass studies (Master of Music) with Robert Landfermann and Ansgar Striepens
since 2019 classical double bass lessons with Gisèle Blondeau (WDR radio orchestra)

Formats:
Due to the corona, my lessons are currently only taking place via the Zoom platform.

Location

Online from Germany

About Me

Andreas grew up at the largest canal junction in Europe, between former coal heaps, power station towers and industrial ruins. At an early age he felt strongly drawn to music, began to learn the guitar and quickly realized that something was missing. Where is this groove, this deep, organic hum that he feels inside?

He realizes that the bass offers him precisely these missing elements. The end of the search for the right instrument is at the same time the beginning of a new, much deeper journey:
the perfect tone, your own musical language and personal development - for Andreas these things have been inextricably linked ever since.

He begins studying at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, where he is taught by John Goldsby, Dieter Manderscheid and Robert Landfermann, who describes himself as a traditionalist in musical terms Modern. Because, modernity without tradition? Jazz without a story? It would be like the Ruhr area without collieries, New York without jazz and Andreas without a double bass. It just doesn't work.

During his studies there are always new opportunities to test the limits of his instrument. He becomes an integral part of the federal jazz orchestra, writes for his own trio, goes on tour with pop bands and plays on every stage that can withstand the weight of him and his double bass. The encounters with musicians from different genres are a new challenge, let him work on his game and open up new perspectives for him. It is only logical that it is precisely these new perspectives that open up his latest field of research for him. What would music be without Mozart, Brahms or Beethoven? And what would the restless one be without taking on the task of researching the precision and sound aesthetics of the classical period?

But what remains forever is jazz - whether as a technical research field, explosive experimental area or philosophical treatise. The best thing about this, he says, is that everyone can be who they are and what they want to be. It all depends on moving forward and finding your own, very personal language.

Education

Studies / lessons / workshops

2010 - 2011 double bass lessons with Stefan Werni
2011 - 2013 double bass lessons with John Goldsby (WDR Big Band), Dieter Manderscheid (Hfmt Cologne)
since 2013 workshops with Ben van Gelder, Reinier Baas, Billy Hart, Alex von Schlippenbach, Gerd Dudek, Wolfgang Schmidtke, Chris Potter, Joe Lovano, Terence Blanchard, Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, among others
2013 - 2016 Youth Jazz Orchestra NRW
2016 - 2018 Federal Jazz Orchestra
2013 - 2018 Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, jazz double bass studies (Bachelor of Music) with Robert Landfermann
since 2018 Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, jazz double bass studies (Master of Music) with Robert Landfermann and Ansgar Striepens
since 2019 classical double bass lessons with Gisèle Blondeau (WDR radio orchestra)

Experience / Qualifications

Concert tours

among others to Ireland, Argentina, England, India, Paraguay, Iceland, Poland, Turkey, Belgium and Israel

Played with

Frank Delle, Markus Stockhausen, Florian Weber, Paul Heller, Swingles, RA Ramamani, Karthik Mani, Nils Landgren, The Swingles, WDR Big Band, Moein, Mike Herting, Sigudur Flosason, Hrólfur Vagnsson, Grand Central Jazz Orchestra, Big Band Convention , Michael Heupel

Concert halls

Philharmonie Essen, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Nottingham Royal Concert Hall, Kings Place London, Bimhuis Amsterdam, Oper Bonn, Concert Theater Coesfeld, Zeche Zollverein, Centro Cultural Kirchner Buenos Aires, Teatro Independencia Mendoza, Theater Asunción, Ruhrfestspielhaus Recklinghausen, Theater Duisburg,

Festivals

Ao Cork Guiness Jazz Festival, 3rd German Choir Festival Stuttgart, Kurt Weil Festival Dessau, Juicy Beats Dortmund, Gateshead International Jazz Festival, Evangelical Church Congress Berlin & Weimar

Age

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

60 minutes

90 minutes

120 minutes

The class is taught in

German

English

Skills

Double bass

Music teacher training

Jazz music

Availability of a typical week

(GMT -05:00)

New York

Online via webcam

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

00-04

04-08

08-12

12-16

16-20

20-24

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- Reading, solfège and interpretation.
- Works
- I work with progressive learning books

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