Geoff Chalmers
Discover Double Bass Founder and jazz tutor
Geoff Chalmers is the founder and CEO of Discover Double Bass. An experienced professional double bassist and educator, he now works exclusively at DiscoverDoubleBass.com; the world's largest online double bass school.
Based in the UK, Geoff has worked as a freelance bassist performing on numerous gigs. He has a degree in jazz bass from Leeds Conservatoire, as well as a postgraduate diploma in classical music from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Geoff Chalmers is also an experienced educator having taught bass at schools, colleges and universities, as well as to hundreds of private students.
Geoff Chalmers
As a teacher, Geoff focuses on concepts and methods that make playing the double bass as easy as possible, so the student can focus on playing their best music. He has studied classical and jazz double bass with many notable teachers including Zoltan Dekany, Roberto Carrillo-Garcia, Jiří Hudec, Leon Bosch, Božo Paradžik and Gjorgji Cincievski.
In August 2013 Geoff founded DiscoverDoubleBass.com with its online lessons library and step-by-step courses. He has published over 100 free lessons and six courses. To get started check out this compilation of his five most popular lessons.
London Bass Guitar Show workshop (photo by Future Publishing)
Check out Geoff's full length courses, exclusively available on Discover Double Bass.
Geoff Chalmers' Double Bass, Strings and Amplification
Geoff Chalmers plays a German double bass from the late 19th century. It has previously been re-varnished to match new wood that was used when the front was replaced. This accounts for it's darker than average colour.
Geoff uses the UK double bass luthier Martyn Bailey for all instrument set up and repairs.
Geoff also uses the following double bass equipment:
Pirastro 'Evah Pirazzi Weich' strings.
Thomastik ‘Spriocore Weich’ strings.
Fishman 'Full Circle' pickup.
Acoustic Image 'Clarus' amplifier (single channel).
Euphonic Audio 'Wizzy 12” M-Line' speaker cabinet.
Heil 'PR40' microphone for recording.
Austrian Audio ‘OC818’ microphone for recording.
Hear GEoff Play & TEACH
Geoff has many fantastic free lessons, studies, and interviews featured on the website on a range of topics. A selection of them are listed here, or browse them all by following the link below.
“I’ve purchased 2 courses from Geoff and both have been extremely influential and helpful. I Wouldn’t be the bassist I am today without Discover Double Bass.”
“Geoff is not only a great bassist… he is also an awesome bass teacher
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“I found Discover Double Bass to be a great way to learn. Geoff’s style is informative and engaging, I recommend his classes to anyone looking to get started or brush up their skills on the Bass.”
“Geoff Chalmers is an excellent bassist and educator. His lessons at Discover Double Bass are clear, concise, and certain to help bassists of all abilities!”
“Thanks Geoff for putting these courses together, they are inspiring and I am learning so much from them!”
“Geoff’s course is chock full of useful comments and tips. It’s like getting a full-time tutor at a fraction of the cost.
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