You Play Bass. But The Moment Someone Says “Take a Solo” Everything Starts To Crumble.
You're not the problem.
The approach is.
You've been playing for a while (maybe even longer than that). You can lock in a groove, you know the minor pentatonic scale (even a few modes too). But the moment someone points at you and says "take it" something happens. The fingers go on autopilot. The brain checks out. And what comes out is nothing like what you were hoping for.
So you've tried to fix it. Most of us do the same things.
You've Probably Tried:
Learning more scales & modes
Hoping more information would somehow make better solos. It didn't.
Watching YouTube tutorials
Trying to copy licks that sound great in the video but fall apart the second you try them over a different backing track.
"Just play what you feel"
Finding that advice spectacularly unhelpful when your fingers default to running the same patterns every time.
And maybe you've bought another course, downloaded another set of scale diagrams, or picked up a new book… only to find yourself doing the same thing a week later with slightly different notes.
The frustrating bit isn't that you can't play. You can.
It's the gap between what you hear in your head and what comes out of your fingers. You know you're capable of more. You've just never been shown how to get from knowing scales to making music with them.
What if the problem was never your talent or your dedication?
What if it was the approach?
Your best solos haven't happened yet. Here's what they'll feel like.
Six months from now, someone hands you a solo. You take a breath, feel the key, and start playing ideas. Not just patterns. Not just scale runs. Musical phrases with tension, release, and space. You know exactly what you're doing and, importantly, why it works.
Make 2 notes more powerful than 12
Hear it, then play it
Perform a full solo with confidence
Know exactly why it works
These aren't aspirational promises. They're the direct result of understanding one thing most bass players have never been taught. And it's simpler than you'd think.
Improvisation isn't a gift.
It's a system nobody taught you.
Most bass education treats scales as the destination. Learn the minor pentatonic. Learn the modes. Learn more material. The assumption is that if you know enough notes, music will somehow emerge.
But knowing the alphabet doesn't make you a writer. And knowing scales doesn't make you an improviser. That's why you can play scales cleanly and still freeze the moment someone says "take a solo."
The material was never the problem. The missing piece was structure: knowing what to play, when to play it, and how to make it musical.
My approach starts with one scale (one you probably already know) and instead of just adding more material, it teaches you how to actually use it. Constraints. Phrasing. Tension and release. Space. How to tell a story within a solo that has a beginning, middle, and end. Only once you can do that fluently do we expand. Pentatonics. Superimposition. Modes. Chord changes. Each phase builds on the last. Nothing is left to "figure it out yourself."
Over the last year I've taken everything I know about how bass players actually develop as improvisers and built it into a single, structured system.
I call it The Soloing Stack Framework™. A progressive 7-layer system taught across 4 transformational phases. Each layer builds on the last – nothing is left to "figure it out yourself".
I've spent over 30 years playing and teaching bass at every level: from universities and colleges to privately coaching bass players from some of the most recognised bands in the world.
And in all that time, I've seen the same pattern repeat itself over and over: players who are technically capable but creatively stuck, because nobody ever gave them a structured path from knowing scales to actually improvising and soloing with them.
That's what I've spent the last year building.
Built Around The Soloing Stack Framework™
I built this programme for one specific type of bass player: someone who can hold down a groove, knows a few scales, but freezes the moment someone says "take a solo." Someone who's tried the YouTube videos, the scale diagrams, the random lessons… and still can't make it click.
Over the next 6 months, you'll move through four progressive phases designed to take you from running scale exercises to performing complete, confident, expressive improvised solos.
This isn't a content library you browse at your own pace. It's a guided intensive with weekly live coaching and feedback sessions on Zoom, performance checkpoints every four weeks, guest artist sessions with world-class improvisers, and a cohort of players going through every phase alongside you. Every week has a clear focus. Every phase builds on the last. Nothing is left to chance or "just feel it."
This is the first time this programme has ever been available, and it's only opening once in 2026. The founding cohort price of $497 will never be available again. When this cohort closes, the price goes to $997.
This is not like any soloing course.
Phase Breakdown
First Solos. Real Music.
This is where everything changes. We strip everything back to the minor pentatonic: not to learn it, but to finally use it properly. Through constraints, phrasing exercises, and guided improvisation, you'll improvise your first real solos that actually sound musical. No more running patterns from root to octave. By the end of Phase 1 you'll be making real musical decisions, and you'll have performed your first complete solo with confidence.
By the end of this phase:
You can confidently solo over a groove without getting lost.
Expanding the Palette
Your fretboard opens up. The major pentatonic comes into play and your harmonic vocabulary starts to grow. You'll learn to shift between tonal centres, use pentatonic superimposition, adapt your solos to different musical contexts, and build ideas that sit comfortably across the entire neck, not just in one position or one key. By the end of Phase 2 you're no longer limited to one sound or one place on the fretboard.
By the end of this phase:
You can adapt your solos to chord changes instead of guessing.
Harmonic Control
This is where it gets real. Chord tones, modal colour, real harmonic intention. You'll learn to target specific notes over changes, hear where the music is going before your fingers get there, and apply everything you've built to actual musical contexts, not static backing tracks. Real chord progressions that demand real-time decisions. The theory you now know starts working for you in the moment.
By the end of this phase:
You can navigate chord changes with intention and land where you mean to land, every single time.
Musical Application
Everything comes together. Funk vamps, jazz blues, jazz standards, minor blues: you'll apply your complete soloing toolkit across real musical environments. Phrasing, dynamics, musical narrative. You'll learn how to pace a solo, use space deliberately, and build tension and release across a complete musical statement. By the end of Phase 4 you'll be performing full, confident solos, and understand exactly how you got there.
By the end of this phase:
You can perform complete, expressive solos in any musical context… and you'll know exactly why it works.
What's Included in Every Phase:
Weekly Lessons
Weekly Live Coaching Sessions
Performance Week
Guest Artist Sessions
A Cohort of Serious Players
Graduation Week
By the end of all 4 phases, you won't just know more scales or theory. You'll have a completely different relationship with your instrument.
You'll understand how to improvise, how to take a solo, how to make it musical, and exactly why it works. That's the difference between someone who plays bass and someone who plays bass.
Meet Your Guest Artists
Nick Campbell
Nick Campbell is one of the most distinctive voices in modern electric bass. You've heard him with Vulfpeck, Charlie Puth, Scary Pockets, Pomplamoose, Meghan Trainor, Theo Katzman, and Moonchild, among many others.
In his guest session Nick will be sharing:
- His all-time favourite soloing exercises: the ones he actually uses
- His approach to phrasing and creating musical ideas in real time
- Advanced superimposition: how to make static harmony sound endlessly fresh
- Finding your own soloing voice on the instrument
- And much more...
Evan Marien
Evan Marien is an award-winning bassist, composer, producer, author, and Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music. He graduated from Berklee in 2009 and has since performed with Tigran Hamasyan, Wayne Krantz, Tim Miller, Virgil Donati, and holds the rare distinction of being the last bassist to perform in guitar legend Allan Holdsworth's band. You can also hear his playing on Mitski's gold record album Be The Cowboy.
As an author, Evan has written numerous books on his distinctive Hexatonic method: making him one of the most knowledgeable voices on advanced harmonic concepts for bass guitar in the world.
In his guest session Evan will be sharing:
- Hexatonics and their uses in a soloing context: a complete breakdown
- Advanced superimposition: taking your harmonic vocabulary to the next level
- His approach to phrasing and musical storytelling
- Technique in a soloing context: with specific exercises you can use immediately
- And much more...
Jonathan Maron
Jonathan Maron is a Grammy-nominated electric bassist, composer, and producer whose career spans nearly 200 records across an extraordinary range of styles. Co-founder of New York's legendary Groove Collective — whose album People People Music Music received a Grammy nomination — Jonathan has performed with Maxwell, Meshell Ndegeocello, India.Arie, Dave Douglas, Anoushka Shankar, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and many others.
In his guest session Jonathan will be sharing:
- His approach to phrasing: how to make every note count
- Finding your soloing voice across different musical contexts
- His all-time favourite soloing exercises
- How to bring genuine musicality to any playing situation
- And much more...
Janek Gwizdala
Janek Gwizdala is an internationally acclaimed electric bassist, composer, and educator, widely recognised for his innovative voice at the forefront of modern jazz and fusion. Over two decades he has performed and recorded with Pat Metheny, Carlos Santana, Marcus Miller, John Mayer, Billy Cobham, Wayne Krantz, Donny McCaslin, Bob James, Peter Erskine, and many others. He is also the author of over 20 best-selling instructional books for bass players, including Bass Player's Guide to Pentatonics, Jazz Vocabulary for Electric Bass, and All the Good Stuff.
In his guest session Janek will be sharing:
- His approach to phrasing and musical storytelling on the bass
- His all-time favourite soloing exercises: the ones that actually move the needle
- Technique in a soloing context: with specific exercises
- How to develop your own soloing voice and musical identity
- And much more...
Explore the Full Curriculum
Foundation
Play Your First Real Solo (Today)
Most players spend years waiting until they feel "ready" to solo. This week we change that immediately. You'll learn the only scale you need to start soloing right now, and through a series of carefully structured note groupings: 2 notes, 3 notes, 4 notes… you'll play your first real solo by the end of the week. Not a scale run. An actual musical idea.
- Lesson 1: The Only Scale You Need to Start Soloing (Minor Pentatonic)
- Lesson 2: Your First Solo Using 2 Note Groupings
- Lesson 3: Your First Solo Using 3 Note Groupings
- Lesson 4: Your First Solo Using 4 Note Groupings
Stop Sounding Like You're Running Scales
This is the week everything starts to sound intentional. You'll learn how to take the notes you already know and turn them into real musical phrases: ideas that breathe, that have shape, that sound like you meant them. Through rhythmical plug-ins, phrase framing, and call and response techniques, your solos stop sounding like exercises and start sounding like music.
- Lesson 1: Rhythmical Plug-Ins
- Lesson 2: Framing Your Phrases
- Lesson 3: Call and Response Techniques
Break Out of the Box
One of the biggest limitations for intermediate players is getting stuck in one position on the neck. This week we fix that permanently. You'll learn three connected positions that let you move fluidly across the fretboard, extended pentatonic applications, and approach notes that add colour and intention to every phrase you play.
- Lesson 1: Escaping the Box: 3 Connected Positions
- Lesson 2: Extended Pentatonic Application
- Lesson 3: Pentatonic Approach Notes
Stop Guessing Over Chord Changes
This is where the theory you already know starts working for you in real time. You'll discover why one scale can work across multiple chords, how to superimpose pentatonic scales to create harmonic sophistication, and how to solo confidently over two chords using two scales. By the end of this week, chord changes stop being something you survive and start being something you navigate with intention.
- Lesson 1: One Scale, Multiple Chords: Why It Works
- Lesson 2: Pentatonic Superimposition Part 1
- Lesson 3: Soloing Over Two Chords Using Two Scales
- Final Assignment: Put everything you've learned to work in one complete solo
Performance Week + Special Guest Artist Workshop
No new content this week. This is your week to breathe, consolidate, and catch up if you need to. You'll spend time applying everything you've learned throughout Phase 1, putting your new skills into practice. Plus a special guest artist workshop exclusive to this phase: a world-class musician sharing how they actually approach improvisation on their feet.
Expansion
The World of the Major Pentatonic Scale
Your harmonic palette expands this week as the major pentatonic comes into play. You'll learn the two most crucial positions, how to improvise with the major pentatonic immediately, and how to connect three patterns across two octaves. Your fretboard starts to feel like a map rather than a maze.
- Lesson 1: 2 Crucial Major Pentatonic Positions
- Lesson 2: Improvising With the Major Pentatonic
- Lesson 3: The 3 Connected Patterns in 2 Octaves
Phrasing Approaches With the Major Pentatonic
Knowing the scale is one thing. Making it sound musical is another. This week you'll take everything you learned about phrasing in Phase 1 and apply it to the major pentatonic across multiple positions. Rhythmic plug-ins, call and response, and memorised phrases that you can deploy confidently in any musical situation.
- Lesson 1: Rhythmic Plug-Ins in Multiple Positions
- Lesson 2: Call and Response in Multiple Positions
- Lesson 3: How to Use Memorised Phrases: 3 Examples
Superimposition With Major Pentatonics
This is where your solos start to sound genuinely sophisticated. You'll learn how to superimpose major pentatonic scales over chord changes to create harmonic colour and tension, the technique that makes the difference between a solo that sounds competent and one that sounds musical and modern.
- Lesson 1: Superimposition concepts and applications
- Lesson 2: How to create harmonic interest over static chords
- Lesson 3: Applying superimposition in real musical contexts
Superimposition With Minor Pentatonics
Building on last week, you'll now apply superimposition concepts to minor pentatonics, expanding your toolkit further and giving you a complete superimposition vocabulary that works across both major and minor musical contexts.
- Lesson 1: Minor pentatonic superimposition concepts part 1
- Lesson 2: Minor pentatonic superimposition concepts part 2
- Lesson 3: Combining major and minor superimposition approaches
- Final Assignment: Apply your expanded vocabulary in a complete solo
Performance Week + Special Guest Artist Workshop
No new content this week. This is your week to breathe, consolidate, and catch up if you need to. You'll spend time applying everything you've learned throughout Phase 2, putting your new skills into practice. Plus a special guest artist workshop exclusive to this phase: a world-class musician sharing how they actually approach improvisation on their feet.
Harmonic Control
Unlocking Chord Tone Soloing Part 1
This is one of the most transformational weeks in the entire programme. Chord tone soloing is what separates players who sound musical over changes from players who are just hoping for the best. You'll learn how to identify and target the most important notes in any chord, and how to build solos that are harmonically intentional rather than accidentally correct.
- Lesson 1: Understanding chord tones and why they matter
- Lesson 2: How to target chord tones in real time
- Lesson 3: Applying chord tone soloing over simple progressions
Unlocking Chord Tone Soloing Part 2
Building on last week, you'll go deeper into chord tone soloing, expanding your application across more complex chord progressions and developing the ability to navigate changes with genuine harmonic confidence. By the end of this week, you'll hear chord changes differently.
- Lesson 1: Advanced chord tone targeting
- Lesson 2: Applying chord tone soloing across complex progressions
- Lesson 3: Combining chord tones with pentatonic vocabulary
Unlocking the Modes Part 1
Modes are one of the most misunderstood concepts in music. This week we demystify them completely: starting with what modes actually are, why they matter for improvisation, and how to use the Ionian mode immediately in your solos to add a new harmonic colour.
- Lesson 1: What Are the Modes? (Finally, a clear explanation)
- Lesson 2: The Ionian Mode Part 1
- Lesson 3: The Ionian Mode Part 2
Unlocking the Modes Part 2
Three of the most essential modes for modern bass soloing: Dorian, Mixolydian, and Lydian. You'll learn each one in context, understand when and why to use them, and apply them immediately to your solos. By the end of this week your harmonic palette will be richer than most players who've been studying theory for years.
- Lesson 1: The Dorian Mode
- Lesson 2: The Mixolydian Mode
- Lesson 3: The Lydian Mode
- Final Assignment: Demonstrate harmonic control across a complete chord progression
Performance Week + Special Guest Artist Workshop
No new content this week. This is your week to breathe, consolidate, and catch up if you need to. You'll spend time applying everything you've learned throughout Phase 3, putting your new skills into practice. Plus a special guest artist workshop exclusive to this phase: a world-class musician sharing how they actually approach improvisation on their feet.
Musical Application
Funk Vamp Approaches
Everything you've built across the first three phases now gets applied to one of the most common and challenging musical contexts: the funk vamp. You'll learn how to keep your solos fresh, interesting, and musical over static grooves, using the full range of your soloing toolkit to create ideas that breathe and evolve.
- Lesson 1: Soloing over funk vamps with intention and creativity
- Lesson 2: Using superimposition and chord tones in a funk context
- Lesson 3: Building solos that develop and tell a story over a groove
Jazz Blues Approaches
The jazz blues is one of the great proving grounds for any improviser. This week you'll learn how to navigate the jazz blues form confidently: targeting chord tones, using modal colour, and applying your full vocabulary to one of the most musically rich contexts in the genre.
- Lesson 1: Understanding the jazz blues form
- Lesson 2: Applying your full soloing toolkit to jazz blues
- Lesson 3: Developing musical ideas across the changes
Jazz Standard Approaches
Real musical situations demand real musical solutions. This week you'll apply everything you've learned to jazz standard repertoire: navigating complex chord changes with confidence, targeting chord tones in real time, and performing complete solos that tell a genuine musical story.
- Lesson 1: Approaching jazz standard chord progressions
- Lesson 2: Applying modal colour and chord tone soloing in context
- Lesson 3: Building complete solos with narrative and shape
Minor Blues Approaches
The minor blues is one of the most emotionally powerful musical contexts for a soloist, and one of the most demanding. This week you'll learn how to bring everything together over the minor blues form, using the full depth of your harmonic and phrasing vocabulary to create solos that are genuinely expressive and musical.
- Lesson 1: Understanding the minor blues form
- Lesson 2: Applying your complete soloing vocabulary in a minor context part 1
- Lesson 3: Applying your complete soloing vocabulary in a minor context part 2
- Final Assignment: Perform a complete, expressive solo in a real musical context
Graduation Week + Special Live Event With Scott
This is your finish line, and it deserves to be celebrated properly. Time to join Scott for a special live graduation event. This isn't just a course you completed. It's a journey with a proper ending.
I Didn't Stop at the Curriculum.
50 Essential Solo Licks for the Modern Bassist
50 carefully selected licks covering a range of styles, techniques, and musical contexts — each one designed to slot directly into your developing soloing vocabulary. These aren't random exercises. They're the kind of ready-to-use musical ideas that give your solos instant character and personality while you're building your own voice. They're delivered after the main programme content, at exactly the point in your development when you'll get the most from them.
Advanced Scales and Modes for the Modern Bassist
Once you've completed the programme and have a genuine soloing foundation under your fingers, this is where you go next. A comprehensive deep-dive into advanced scales and modes: the harmonic tools that take your soloing vocabulary beyond the programme and into genuinely sophisticated musical territory. Think of it as the natural next chapter, and as such it's delivered after the main programme content, at exactly the right moment in your development.
- Video breakdowns of each groove (with tips on articulation, rhythm, technique & more)
- 3 sample bass lines per track to study or riff off of
- Freedom to experiment — without worrying about keeping up with a full song
This is where you take off the training wheels and play.
Valued at $99.00 — included free.
Plus An Early Enrolment Bonus
3 Months of Extra Weekly Coaching + Feedback Sessions
Enrol within the first four days and you'll receive an additional three months of weekly live coaching and feedback sessions on top of everything already included in the programme. That means instead of 26 weeks of live coaching, you'll have access to roughly 38 weeks of direct, personalised feedback… taking you well beyond the programme itself and into a period of genuine consolidation and continued growth.
This bonus alone is worth more than the entire cost of the programme. And it's only available to the first students through the door.
After the first four days it's gone. No exceptions.
- 27 melodic technique etudes that target plucking, fretting, and rhythmic skills
- Nearly 6 hours of instruction across all levels
- Full tab + notation for every example
- Professionally recorded backing tracks to play along with
- And a big dose of creative inspiration (because these are actually fun to play)
Valued at $127.00 — included free.
Here's Everything You're Getting:
3 Months Extra Weekly Coaching (38 weeks total)
3 Months Extra Weekly Coaching (32 weeks total)
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A Guarantee That Actually Means Something.
Most online courses offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. Enough time to watch a few videos and decide if you like the interface.
That's not what this is.
I'm offering a full 365-day unconditional money-back guarantee on Bass Soloing & Improvisation for the Modern Bassist. That means you can go through the entire programme, all 20 weeks, every live coaching session, every performance checkpoint, every guest artist workshop, and if you genuinely feel it hasn't transformed your playing, email me and I'll refund every penny.
No forms. No awkward conversations. No hoops to jump through.
Here's why I can offer this with complete confidence:
In over 50,000 course sales we have a less than 1% refund rate. Not because I make it difficult, but because the people who join my programmes are dedicated musicians who show up, do the work, and get results. I expect you're exactly that kind of player.
So take the full year. Go through every phase. Attend the live sessions. Do the assignments. And if you genuinely feel that 12 months from now your playing hasn't changed, email me. You'll get every penny back, no questions asked.
The only risk here is not joining and watching the price go to $997 the next time this opens.
Where Will You Be in 6 Months?
If nothing changes…
After Bass Soloing & Improv Course
"How much time do I need each week?"
Each week has a clear focus with lessons, exercises, and play-along material. Most students find they spend 3 to 5 hours per week between the lesson content, practice, and the live coaching session. The programme is designed to fit around a normal life. You don't need to quit your job. You do need to show up consistently.
This programme is built for intermediate bass players. You should know your minor pentatonic scale and be comfortable playing along to backing tracks. If you're a complete beginner still learning where the notes are, this isn't the right fit yet. If you've been playing for a while and you're frustrated by the gap between what you know and what you can do, you're exactly who this is for.
The YouTube channel gives you concepts and ideas. This programme gives you a system. There's a structured sequence, weekly live coaching sessions, performance checkpoints with personal feedback, and a cohort of players going through it with you. Scattered free lessons build awareness. A structured 20-week intensive builds ability. That's the difference.
By the end of Phase 1 (weeks 1 to 5) you'll be playing your first real solos using the minor pentatonic. Not scale runs. Actual musical solos with phrasing, constraints, and intention. From there, each phase builds on the last. How far you go depends on how consistently you practise, but the programme is designed so that every single week moves you forward.
You get lifetime access to all the lesson content, exercises, and resources. The live coaching sessions and cohort community run beyond the 20-week programme window for a full 6 months, but all session recordings are available afterwards so you can revisit anything at any time.
You're covered by a full 365-day unconditional money-back guarantee. Go through the entire programme, attend the live sessions, do the work. If you genuinely feel it hasn't transformed your playing at any point within the first year, just email me and I'll refund every penny. No forms. No hoops. No awkward conversations. The only condition is that you give it a real shot… which I'm confident you will.
You need a bass, an amp (or headphones) and a way to play along with backing tracks. That's it. This programme is about what comes out of your fingers, not what's on your pedalboard. Any bass, any budget.
Most improvisation courses give you more material… more scales, more licks, more theory. This programme does the opposite. It starts with what you already know and teaches you how to actually use it musically. The structure is sequential, with live coaching and performance checkpoints built in so you don't just learn concepts, you apply them and get feedback in real time. If previous courses gave you information without structure, this is the missing piece.
Yes! In fact, the players who will get the most from this programme are often those who've been playing for five, ten, even fifteen years and still feel stuck when it comes to soloing. You already have the foundation. What you've been missing is a structured system to build on top of it. The programme meets you exactly where you are and moves you forward from there.
The programme ends with Graduation Week, a special live event with Scott. After that, the two bonus programmes, 50 Essential Solo Licks for the Modern Bassist and Advanced Scales and Modes for the Modern Bassist, are delivered, giving you a clear path to continue developing beyond the programme, and you get an additional 6 weeks of live coaching to help lock in everything you’ve been working on (and perhaps start diving into those new bonuses ;D)
Absolutely. While the real-world application in Phase 4 covers funk, jazz blues, jazz standards, and minor blues, the skills you develop across all four phases are completely style-agnostic. Phrasing, space, tension and release, chord tone targeting, musical storytelling - these are the fundamentals of great soloing in any genre. Whether you play rock, pop, funk, soul, gospel, or anything else, this programme will make you a more expressive and confident musician across the board.
These bonuses are designed to be used after the main programme, not alongside it. You'll get the most from them once you've built your foundation across all 20 weeks. They'll be unlocked automatically once Week 20 concludes.
Hi, I’m Scott Devine!
I didn't pick up the bass because I wanted to hold down the groove. I picked it up because I heard a bass solo that stopped me cold… and from that moment I was obsessed.
At 18 I got rejected by music college (my school grades were BAD!)… and not so long after I went back and taught there. In between I flew around the world to study with some of the greatest bass players of all time: Gary Willis, Jeff Andrews, Skúli Sverrisson… chasing the thing that most teachers never actually teach: how to express yourself freely and confidently on the instrument.
That obsession eventually became Scott's Bass Lessons (now home to over 100,000+ students, 1.5 million YouTube subscribers, and 10 million views every month). I've privately coached bass players from some of the most recognised bands in the world. And in over 30 years of playing and teaching, at every level, from universities and colleges to one-on-one with professionals, I've seen the same pattern repeat itself over and over: players who are technically capable but creatively stuck, because nobody ever gave them a structured path from knowing scales to actually soloing and improvising with them.
I built this programme because I wished something like it existed when I was figuring this out. A clear, structured system that takes you from "I know the scales" to "I can actually solo." I'm confident it'll work for you, and I can’t wait to hear your first solo.
One Decision.
One System.
One Price — For Now.
This is the first time Bass Soloing & Improvisation for the Modern Bassist has ever been available. You're not buying into an established programme with a discount slapped on it. You're joining the founding cohort — the first group of players to go through this system — at a price that reflects that.
When this cohort closes, the price goes to $997. This programme opens once in 2026. If you've been waiting for the right moment, this is it.
Here's everything you get when you enroll today
Here’s everything you’re about to unlock:
3 Months Extra Weekly Coaching (38 weeks total)
This low price will not be available again.
The founding cohort price of $497 exists because this is the first time this programme has run. You're helping shape something, and the price reflects that. When this cohort closes, it goes to $997. And this programme only opens once in 2026.
For less than the cost of five private bass lessons, you get 20 weeks of structured curriculum, weekly live coaching, performance checkpoints, guest artist sessions, two bonus programmes, and a 365-day unconditional guarantee.
There is genuinely no risk here. The only question is whether you're ready to finally close the gap.
You've read this far for a reason.
You already know the gap is real. You've felt it every time someone says "take it" and your fingers go on autopilot. You've tried the scales, the YouTube videos, the random lessons… and you're still here, still looking for the thing that actually closes it.
This is that thing.
Twenty weeks. A proven system. Weekly live coaching from an expert improviser / to guide you through the programme. And a full year to decide if it's right for you… completely risk free.
The founding member price of $497 won't exist after this cohort closes. The next time this opens, it's $997. And it only opens once in 2026.
The gap between the player you are and the player you know you can be… it's closer than you think.