Colin Sankey

Master the Art of Bass

"What an amazing player and teacher" - Darren

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Master the bass with Colin Sankey

I'm here to propel your musical growth and achieve your highest potential as a bassist. Whatever your musical goals are, whether it's learning how to tap, sight-reading, refining your slap technique, holding down a groove in a cover band, improvising over standards, or even writing your own songs, I can help you succeed.

Since I started teaching over 8 years ago, I've helped hundreds of students from the ages of 5 to 80 improve their skills. In that time, my clientele has included students of all ability levels, from absolute beginners to professional musicians and Berklee grads.

I can help you master any technique, including slap, tap, fingerstyle, harmonics, and chords. And I can help familiarize you with any style, be it rock, funk, Jazz, metal, or Latin.

My students often remark that I've taught them more in a day than other instructors have in years. So sign up now and expedite your learning process!

Testimonials

Giuseppe

"Colin is a fantastic instructor! Whether I have questions about walking bass lines, slapping, tapping, or random music theory that I'm trying to learn or dig into more, he's always able to answer and help out and give me direction with exercises to work on."

Darren

"I’ve been taking lessons with Colin for a few months. It has helped me immensely.
What an amazing player and teacher - he has excellent insight and so many years of experience (with multiple types of basses).
I started with the basics and he is now teaching me how to slap...
How lucky to learn from someone with 20 years of dedicated experience and so much talent!
He does make it fun and easy to learn. And just check out his posted bass videos…
Nutz!"

Christian

Colin has been an amazing teacher and inspiration over the years. I highly recommend him as a teacher and mentor.

Who is Colin Sankey?

I am a professional bassist from Vancouver, Canada. I've been playing bass for over 17 years, and in that time, I've won the 2022 Phil Jones Solo Bass Competition, recorded multiple albums, toured with a Persian rock star, played hundreds of shows a year, and reached 116,000 Instagram followers with my arrangements.

My arrangements and videos have been featured by channels such as Scott's Bass Lessons, Charles Berthoud, George Collier, and BassTheWorld, each with hundreds of thousands to millions of YouTube subscribers.

I bring all this experience, plus the knowledge gained from years of diligent practice and four years of music school, into my lessons. Suffice to say, I haven't yet been asked a question about playing the bass that I did not have an answer to.