Cecil is/has been an active professor of Improvisation at the New England Conservatory in Boston for 21 years.
He also taught at the New School of music in Manhattan previously for 15 years.
ALSO he teaches PRIVATLY Jazz Theory and Harmony, Composition and Performance for the String Bass and All Instruments.

related link: www.nec.edu

Lesson: 60 minutes.
To contact, please mail: lemac1919@yahoo.com or call: 718 -788 15 19 -
Cecil's string bass education focuses on:

Tequnique - Tones - Right Hand - Accompanyment - Soloing -

For beginners and advanced bassists varied left hand disciplines providing creative techniques for mobility throughout performance.

Left hand-disciplines. Total visuality of ALL tones on the fingerboard, - their Accessability - and vast Harmonic Depths of Potential Musiaclity/Improvisation.

Re-structureing right hand pizzicato-techniques that involve first the index-finger, followed by the second middle finger, that will eventually inspire and activate the third finger. These three fingers in combination rhythmically can be vital for purposes of soloing and accompanying ( walking ).

Bass-line creativity - How and Why - Certain tones are acceptable and non-acceptable. Advise for the best choices by extremely well-focused processes of selection is taught.

Abstract and Melodic. Rhythmic uses of both, spaces ( silence ) and qualities of rhythmic involvements/ engagements from tone to tone and chord to chord. This excites the activation of one single finger or two fingers and three fingers and/ or combinations of all three.