About Bass Guitar Lessons Online

BMus (Performance) Wiesbaden Conservatory, Germany, GradDip (Jazz) Australian National University, Cert.IV in Workplace Training & Assessment, Cert.IV in Small Business Management.

Studied classical double bass with Michael Schnitzler (Germany), jazz bass with Adelhard Roidinger (Austria), jazz ensemble performance with Lee Harper (USA), bass guitar with Kai Eckhard (USA), and jazz improvisation with Charlie Banacos (USA).

George’s main instruments are the double bass as well as 4, 5, and 6-string bass guitar. He has been involved in wide-ranging forms of music, including chamber music and orchestral work, avant-garde, cabaret, blues, pop, rock, country, and most jazz styles.

He has participated in numerous studio, radio, TV and video recordings (including “Melody Magic”) and has backed many leading performers in various genres.

He has done pre-production, co-arranging, co-writing and bass playing on numerous albums including “Wilf Jones and Friends” and “Those Were the Days” (Wilf Jones Trio, light classical & jazz) “After Midnight” (Kelly Tassone, country rock) “Kookaburra’s Flute Dream” (Peter Fassbender, meditative funk) “Sweet Mischief” and “ Can We” (with multi award-winning band, Sweet Mischief, playing jazz, soul, groove, salsa and New Orleans style) produced by Stuart Stuart of Sheppard and The Veronicas fame.

He was a member of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra for 15 years. He is author of “Bass Guitar for the Complete Musician”, co-author of the innovative educational CD-ROM “Enable Bass”, co-producer of the bass and drums play-along CD “The Feel of the Real Deal” and producer of the popular ready-made lesson CDs “Groove Creation for Bass” and “Workin’ it Out – Aural Skills for Bass Players”.

For his Graduate Diploma, George wrote a treatise (which received a High Distinction) titled “Fundamental Concepts for Walking Bass – A Systematic Method”.

He has had both workshop and clinic experience and lectured in Bass, Jazz Improvisation, Ensemble Performance and Jazz Theory at the Riverina Summer School for Strings from 1990 until 2000. From 1987 to 1999 George lectured in the Jazz Dept. of the Canberra School of Music, ANU, and is currently teaching bass and ensemble performance at Southern Cross University.

He worked in various capacities at the Northern Rivers Conservatorium Arts Centre in Lismore for three years. George is a highly qualified ensemble supervisor and an experienced jazz band conductor with national and international tours to his credit.

He writes the Bass column for Australian Musician magazine and was Australia correspondent for the online bass magazine, Global Bass, contributing a monthly article titled “Creating Bass”.

He also teaches bass worldwide by audio correspondence and has students as far away as Greece, Germany and the USA. ProBand, a short course in music performance skills, is George’s innovation.

He is also innovator of quality and affordable Weekly Bass Lessons online ($4.00 per lesson) with subscribers from Australia, Malta, Mexico, Norway, England, the United Arab Emirates and the USA.

He has the experience of well over 3000 performances and 120 recording sessions to guide himself and his students through most musical situations.

During the most active part of his performing career he backed countless well-known artists from Rolf Harris to ex-Seekers vocalist, Judith Durham and Motown recording artist, Thelma Housten as well as Marina Prior and Australian jazz icons, Bob and Len Barnard and Australian country music multi award winning artist, Beccy Cole.

Some of his former students hold top playing positions in the music industry, both in Australia and abroad. They include Greg Royal (Lee Kernaghan, Kate Ceberano, Australian Idol Band) Kim Khahn (Mel C, Natalie Imbruglia, Robbie Williams) Rory Quirk (John Butler Trio, Quirk) Zoe Hauptmann (Miruslav Bukovsky’s ARIA award winning group Wanderlust and Australian singer-songwriter legend, Paul Kelly, since 2013) and Brendan Clarke (winner of the 2001 National Jazz Award).