Jazz Education
Cecil is a Distinguished Professor of Improvisation at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and has been teaching there for over 25 years.
He also taught at the New School of Music in Manhattan for sixteen years and has led master classes at Harvard University.
Cecil also welcomes individual students for private instruction in his Brooklyn studio for doublebass, theory and harmony, and composition.
related link: www.nec.edu
He also taught at the New School of Music in Manhattan for sixteen years and has led master classes at Harvard University.
Cecil also welcomes individual students for private instruction in his Brooklyn studio for doublebass, theory and harmony, and composition.
related link: www.nec.edu
Private Lessons
Lesson: 60 minutes.
To contact, please e-mail: lemac1919@yahoo.com
or call: 929 - 210 - 0524.
Cecil’s string bass education focuses on both the physical and creative elements necessary for the expression of musical tones and ideas. His course of study includes fundamental techniques; the creation of tones, focusing on the right and left hands both separately and together; the choice of tones in the context of accompaniment; and the creation of a confident, individual voice in the context of solo improvisation
To contact, please e-mail: lemac1919@yahoo.com
or call: 929 - 210 - 0524.
Cecil’s string bass education focuses on both the physical and creative elements necessary for the expression of musical tones and ideas. His course of study includes fundamental techniques; the creation of tones, focusing on the right and left hands both separately and together; the choice of tones in the context of accompaniment; and the creation of a confident, individual voice in the context of solo improvisation
String Bass Improvisation - Techniques
For beginners and advanced bassists various left hand disciplines will inspire creative techniques for mobility throughout performance.
Tones - Left Hand
Left-hand disciplines will enable a complete mastery and visualization of all tones on the fingerboard.
Right Hand
Focusing on right-hand pizzicato techniques, instruction will provide various approaches that involve multiple improvisatory concepts for individual and combined fingerings. After strengthening the index finger and second middle finger, the focus of study will aim to activate the third finger. These innovative techniques provide a strong rhythmic foundation and encourage an individual approach that encourages the development of a personal voice on the instrument.