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I'm Andrew Pouska. Welcome to StudyBass. I love bass, music and teaching it. I have taught thousands of bass players face-to-face for 30 years. In 2003 I created StudyBass to help bass players everywhere learn.The Latest on StudyBass
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Good luck with your musical pursuits,
Andrew Pouska
What's New on StudyBass?
Videos
- Counting Off Songs
- Introducing the StudyBass Music Dictionary - Video Format
- Active Recall and Spaced Repetition
- Common Beat Terms
- Viewing Your Progress
- Simple and Compound Meters; Duple and Triple Meters
- Meter and Musical Accents
- Truss Rods and Replacing a Stripped Truss Rod Nut
- About Music Theory
- Grace Notes
- Slides
- Pull-Offs
- Hammer-Ons
We couldn't afford bass strings! We used to cut them out of the pianos. All these clubs would wonder what had gone wrong with their pianos!
—Paul McCartney