Peghead Nation's Bass course with Zoe Guigueno HD

In her Peghead Nation course, Zoe Guigueno teaches how to play upright bass from scratch with advice on right- and left-hand technique and in-depth lessons on playing bass patterns, scales, and melodies in most common keys. Includes bass lines from great roots music songs so you can play along. In this video, Zoe discusses the course and gives lesson examples. For more info and to sign up, please visit https://www.pegheadnation.com/string-school/courses/bass/ Zoe Guigueno is a bass player, songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and music teacher based in New York City. Her Grammy-nominated, Americana group Della Mae has recently been touring with legendary comics and actors Steve Martin and Martin Short. Della Mae has also appeared on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN; the Fillmore in San Francisco, CA; and the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. In 2015 they were named by Rolling Stone as one of “Ten New Artists You Need To Know.” Zoe also is a member of the collective Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards, a singing string-quartet that tours internationally and has been described by PopMatters as “stunning” and “forward looking.” In the bluegrass world, apart from Della Mae, Zoe can often be found holding down the bass chair at the weekly Mona’s bluegrass jam in Manhattan, or sitting in with multiple bands at bluegrass festivals. She has toured with Jordan Tice, Jim Lauderdale, and Peghead Nation colleagues Scott Nygaard and Joe K. Walsh. Originally from British Columbia, and for many years a local to Toronto where she studied jazz at Humber College, Zoe moved to the United States in 2013 to join fellow Peghead instructor Wes Corbett in the virtuosic, influential string band Joy Kills Sorrow. Together they toured the US and Europe and recorded the EP Wide Awake. They performed at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, CA, and for millions of listeners on Garrison Keillor’s show A Prairie Home Companion. At home in NYC, Zoe has become a first-call bassist for some of the top klezmorim in the US. She is a regular member of the ensemble Tsibele, a group that performs material drawn from Yiddish poems, Romanian folk music, and Moldovan/Bessarabian influences. She also tours with clarinetist, composer and bandleader Michael Winograd, trombonist/composer Dan Blacksberg, and trumpet player/composer Frank London, and has performed at Klezkanada, Yiddish New York, and Ashkenaz Festival. Zoe also works in the theatre. In 2017 she had an onstage role in the Dora Award-nominated production “Passing Strange” in Toronto. She has also worked for three consecutive years as bassist for the Hunts Point Alliance for Children’s Shakespeare productions, presented in collaboration with the New York Shakespeare Society. As well as working as a recording and touring artist, Zoe has taught privately, as well as conducted masterclasses at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Ossippee Valley String Camp, Fiddleworks, Nashcamp, and Klez