DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi

"Sound doesn't live in tension.
It lives in intention."

Ares Tavolazzi has fifty years of craft and only one rule for the double bass: trust your body, not the textbook.

Ares Tavolazzi
Ares TavolazziBass player for Area, a landmark session player in Italian popular music, and jazz double bass teacher.
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Do you see yourself here?

When you play the double bass and feel like your body just won't cooperate.

If at least one of these sounds familiar, this course was made for you.

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Your hand feels stiff on the fingerboard.

Your fingers keep falling into the same positions. On stage you move within four phrases you already know. And when you try to break out, your bowing hand tightens up, you strain your tendons, and you're out of action for a week.

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There's a voice in your head.

It's the obsessive urge to do, and do, and do. Pushing yourself to force technique just to feel like you're making progress. The result: tendinitis, lockup, a bowing hand working on empty, and zero sound that actually convinces you.

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The problem isn't technique.

It comes before technique. Ares calls it "staying close to the instrument." It means: sound doesn't come from the force you put in, it comes from the relationship between your body and the wood in front of you. Without that, any fingering sounds hollow.

*"A simple major scale, but inside it there's a treasure."* (Ares Tavolazzi)
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Ares Tavolazzi on the double bass, recording session
After this course

What actually changes when you play.

No vague promises. Results you feel when you play.

  • 🎯
    You stay with the instrument, you don't fight it.
    Posture, breath, a relaxed bow hand. You come up for air, stop straining your tendons, and start feeling the wood vibrate instead of your hand pushing against it.
  • 🎼
    You see a major scale as a treasure, not a drill.
    Alternative fingerings, intentional fragmentation, leaps of thirds, sixths, fifths. You stop walking pre-built paths and start drawing your own map.
  • 🗺
    A jazz standard as a compass, not a ball and chain.
    Dominants, tonal centers, symmetries. A detailed breakdown of "All The Things You Are." You understand where the tune is going, stop reacting on instinct, and start leading.
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    You build the walking bass line on paper before you touch the instrument.
    Paper, pencil, erasures. Ares's anti-shortcut ritual. You memorize the tune, see the paths, and by the time you hit the stage you've already walked through the structure.
  • 📐
    Real exercises, indexed by key and difficulty level.
    Straight from the course booklet. Every exercise tells you where it fits, what it trains, and how demanding it is. Not YouTube clips, but material built by someone who has been playing and teaching for fifty years.
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Take a look inside

Two real excerpts from the course

To hear how Ares explains, plays, and demonstrates.

Excerpt 1: moving across the fingerboard with fifths
Excerpt 2: dominant chords and keys

If the quality of these few minutes convinces you, imagine two full hours.

The course

Eight lessons. One owner's manual.

It's not a method for beginners. It's a problem-solving manual for those who already play double bass or electric bass and want to understand what's really holding them back, beyond technique.

#01Being on the instrument, posture, breathing, right hand▾
#02The major scale, the matrix of everything▾
#03The nut and the upper register of the fingerboard▾
#04Arpeggios and symmetries on triads and seventh chords▾
#05Harmonic analysis, dominants and tonal centers▾
#06Fifths, flat fifths, intonation, structure above the mistake▾
#07Inner time, example on Body and Soul▾
#08II-V-I, the alphabet of jazz▾

8 lessons - 2+ hours - 25 indexed exercises - PDF booklet in standard notation

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For you or not for you

Who this course is for. And who it isn't.

✓You play electric bass at intermediate level or above and you're curious about stepping into jazz double bass
✓You play double bass and you notice that on stage you keep repeating the same lines, the same positions, the same four phrases
✓You're afraid of "not having command" even of the scales you think you already know
✓You're a teacher who wants to expand your toolset with a perspective different from the conservatory approach
✓You want to learn from someone with fifty years of real-world experience, not from someone who has read the books
IT'S NOT FOR YOU IF
✗You're looking for a systematic and complete method from A to Z, with a structured learning path
Start here: DOUBLE BASS MASTERY – Jacopo Ferrazza →
✗You're a bassist who wants to deepen your harmonic theory first.
You need: BIG BASS THEORY - Giorgio Terenziani →
✗You're looking for a jazz improvisation course for bass that also works for double bass.
Study with Dario: MY WAY, JAZZ BASS FROM TECHNIQUE TO CREATIVITY – Dario Deidda →

Fifty years of craft, packed into eight lessons.

One-time payment, lifetime access, thirty-day guarantee. No subscriptions.

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Who is Ares Tavolazzi

Fifty years of craft, and one thing to teach you

Ares Tavolazzi

Bass player for Area, a landmark session player in Italian popular music, and jazz double bass teacher.

  • Bass player of Area, the band that changed Italian progressive rock
  • Session man for Guccini, Dalla, Conte, and other giants of Italian songwriting
  • Fifty years of craft between the studio, the stage, and the conservatory
  • A language that moves across jazz, fusion, and Italian singer-songwriter music
  • A recognised jazz double bass teacher, voice of an anti-dogmatic school
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Three things that make this course different

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Teaching direction

Shots chosen by videomakers who are also musicians. A direct approach, with no production filters between you and the instrument.

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PDF Booklet

All the exercises from the eight lessons in standard notation. Print it, mark it, write on it.
From paper to instrument, the way Ares does.

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Lifetime access

One-time payment, no subscriptions, no expiry dates. Watch the course again in five years, just like the first time.

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What's included

Everything you receive when you join the course

One-time payment. Lifetime access. No automatic renewal.

✓8 lessons: like 8 private sessions with Ares A private lesson with Ares costs ~80 EUR per hour. Here you get 8, replayable, with a booklet, accessible for life. 640 EUR
Booklet PDF

Course booklet, in standard notation

All the exercises from the eight lessons, organised by module, with key, difficulty, and teaching theme marked. Print it, write on it, build your walking bass.

39 EUR
✓Subtitles in Italian and English29 EUR
✓25 indexed exercises by key and difficultyIncluso
✓Analysis of All The Things You Are and Body and SoulIncluso
✓Lifetime accessIncluso
✓Free material updatesIncluso
Somma dei valori640 + 39 + 29 = 708 EUR
Valore totale708+ EUR
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Zero risk

Thirty days to truly try it out

If you complete the first four lessons, do the assigned exercises, and see no measurable changes in the way you play your instrument, we'll refund you. Everything. We want you to take the course seriously — we don't want your money if the course doesn't truly work for you. This is a guarantee that asks for commitment on your part, and that's exactly why it means something.

FAQ

Questions we receive before purchase

It's a fair question to ask. Let's try an honest comparison: how much have you spent in the last two years on scattered tutorials, half-finished books, a few private lessons? It often adds up to several hundred euros, with no path that ties everything together. Here you pay once, get lifetime access, and learn from someone who has been playing for fifty years. More than the number itself, what matters is what you find inside.
It's a thought many people have, and it makes sense. The good news is that the course is designed precisely for those who have twenty minutes a day, not just for those who have three hours. Twenty focused minutes with a structured path often do more than two hours scattered across YouTube. Maybe it's exactly because time is scarce that it makes sense to have material that works around your schedule, with no deadlines and no pressure.
True, and many musicians start right there. The difference is simple: YouTube gives you a thousand useful fragments, here you find a path that holds them together. If fragments have worked for you so far, great. But if you feel that between one video and the next the connecting points are missing, here those points are laid out one after another, in a more effective order.
Yes, and Ares himself explicitly bridges double bass and electric bass at several points throughout the course. One of the first things he shows is how to use four fingers "just like on electric bass." If you've been playing bass for at least two or three years, you have everything you need to get started. And if in the first twenty minutes you feel it's not the right time for you, the 30-day guarantee covers everything.
We understand that feeling well, and we hear it often. But the real question is a different one: is it worth letting a previous experience block the next ones too? The 30-day guarantee exists for exactly this reason. Try the course, complete the first four modules with the exercises, and if you see no measurable changes, we'll refund you.
Of course, it's a decision that's yours to make. If in the meantime there's a specific question holding you back, write to us at support: it's more useful to clear up a doubt now than to stay in the maybe. And if it really is just "I'll think about it," that thought often comes back precisely when you're trying to play that piece that won't come together. You might as well have it right there, next to your instrument.
Yes. Once you've completed Ares's course and understood how to "be with the instrument," the natural next step is the Complete Jazz Double Bass Method by Jacopo Ferrazza. If you'd rather consolidate your harmonic theory first, there's Big Bass Theory by Giorgio Terenziani. For pure jazz bass there's also My Way by Dario Deidda. Tavolazzi is the starting point, the others are the steps that follow.

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Fifty years of craft, packed into eight lessons.

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The next step after Tavolazzi

DOUBLE BASS MASTERY – Jacopo Ferrazza

DOUBLE BASS MASTERY – Jacopo Ferrazza

Once you understand how to be with the instrument through Ares, Ferrazza takes you to the next level: a structured method from A to Z, with a systematic path through modern jazz double bass.

€139

Oppure: MY WAY, JAZZ BASS FROM TECHNIQUE TO CREATIVITY – Dario Deidda — The other course by Ares Tavolazzi →

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DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
DOUBLE BASS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – Ares Tavolazzi
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Dive into the world of double bass with Ares Tavolazzi: technique, harmony, and groove to improve your sound and phrasing. A practical course to explore the instrument and approach musical pieces—from jazz standards to your personal favorites.