Victor Wooten’s Bass/Nature Camp is a 6-day experience with about 60 students.
The camp will be packed full of surprises that will begin as soon as the student arrives. Our goal is to build awareness by keeping each student on his/her toes at all times, not knowing what is coming next. This awareness will greatly benefit you as a musician. We will do this through games, puzzles, lessons, blind folded exercises, and many other things designed to open up your mind and awaken the senses to the vast world of Nature, Music, Life, and You.
Classes alternate between indoor and outdoor settings with each student rotating between specialized instructors, getting a balanced and fun dose of Nature and Musical information. This will help show the relationship between the two. The student will be involved in group exercises and lectures as well as individual instruction. Classes are designed to allow the student to ask questions as well as join in on the teaching.
To allow for extreme care in the protection of the students' valuable Bass-playing hands, students will not use knives in any of the Nature exercises.
“I don’t eat this well at home” was a comment from a few of previous year’s participants. Plenty of healthy meals will be served each day. (Vegetarian meals will be served upon request.)
Most nights features live performances and open dialogue allowing time for reflection on the day’s activities and remaining questions the students may have.
We believe that this camp will provide a pleasant ground for all of us to experience and grow together and to make new and lasting friendships.
Even though we are beginning our 10th year, this camp is still in the experimental stage, and we plan to keep it that way!
Some of the things covered at the camp are:
• Awareness (in Life and in Music)
• The role of the Bass Guitar
• Playing techniques
• Theory
• The basics and importance of reading Music
• Soloing techniques and concepts
• Acoustic Bass (each student will have the opportunity to play one of the acoustic basses provided)
• How to use focusing and un-focusing to your advantage
• The 4 basic elements of survival
• Fire making techniques (each student will get the chance to make a bow-drill fire)
• How to find food and water
• How to make a quick emergency shelter that can keep you alive in below freezing temperatures
• Basic animal tracking
• How to walk and move more naturally in Nature
• How everything relates to Music
• And much more!
The possibilities are endless. We will go as far as our imaginations will allow. We hope that you will join us!
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