mmalavec
03/28/22
Perfection!
What a wonderful teacher! My daughter is just learning and I know by watching her she will learn a lot!
Ariane Cap
Born and raised in Innsbruck, Austria, Ariane has been musically active since the age of five, playing classical piano and the recorder. She entered the Conservatory of the Land Tirol at age 6, where she studied the piano and the flute until the age of 18. She started playing in local rock, pop and dance bands and picked up the electric bass and soon added the upright. She entered the Academy of Music Vienna in 1996 studying jazz bass and bass education. In 1998, she received a scholarship from the Academy of Music of Vienna in Austria to the University of Miami, where she spent a year in the graduate program on Austrian and US scholarships. She then received a teaching assistantship at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where she received her Graduate Certificate of Music.
Ariane has studied with greats such as Victor Wooten, Steve Bailey, Chuck Rainey, Gerald Veasley, Kai Eckhardt, Kenny Werner, and others.
Ariane has played in countless bands and projects in Europe and the US, enjoying eclectic styles. She particularly loved playing with bands such as the Mozartband (a fusion of funk, rock and Mozart featuring members of the Viennese Philharmonic), and the Celtic rock band Tempest, who she toured with for three years. Ariane recorded and toured with "kindie-rock" sensation The Sippy Cups, a psychedelic rock circus appealing to kids and their parents alike with jugglers, aerialists, and a rocking show, as well as The Palmwine Boys, who fuse acoustic African Palmwine Music with Americana. Ariane was part of the creation of Cirque du Soleil's adaptation of The Tempest, Amaluna, in Montreal.
She is an experienced sideman as well, most recently supporting guitar virtuoso Muriel Anderson and the German flamenco stars Tierra Negra on fretted and fretless basses, or Cabo Jazz pianist Diego Rodriguez and vocalist extraordinaire Daline Jones. She recently recorded with multi Grammy award winning producer Keith Olsen. Current bands include Lara Price's Girls Got the Blues, an all-star female cast of Bay Area musicians including Janice Maxie-Reid, Pam Hawkins and Annie Sampson, as well as the platinum winning band Generation Esmeralda with Jimmy Goings. She plays 80's Rock and adaptations of game music with the band Raj and the Zenmasters.
Ariane also performs a solo set featuring a genre bending selection (from Bach via Jazz to African World Music) of originals and covers performed on her effects and looping setup. Her latest project is a duo with Bassoonist Paul Hanson, the OoN Band (Out of Nowhere).
The founder of "Step Up Music Vallejo," she is also an educator. She co-conducts bass seminars and rock camps all over the US, teaching along side Steve Bailey, Leo Nocentelli, DJ Logic, Dave LaRue, Carl Verheyen, Walfredo Reyes, and others. She regularly teaches at the Berkeley Jazz School and Workshop, in high demand for her "Pattern system" approach and her creative way of integrating music theory and ear training naturally. In 2014, she was selected by the prestigious Ucross Foundation to participate in an artist in residence program in Ucross, Wyoming. She used this time to write, compose and practice 11 hours a day and more.
As a freelancing composer and sound designer, Ariane has turned out music and sound for hand held and online games for Wolf Track Audio, Karney Music, and Sound and Somatone.
Ariane has studied with greats such as Victor Wooten, Steve Bailey, Chuck Rainey, Gerald Veasley, Kai Eckhardt, Kenny Werner, and others.
Ariane has played in countless bands and projects in Europe and the US, enjoying eclectic styles. She particularly loved playing with bands such as the Mozartband (a fusion of funk, rock and Mozart featuring members of the Viennese Philharmonic), and the Celtic rock band Tempest, who she toured with for three years. Ariane recorded and toured with "kindie-rock" sensation The Sippy Cups, a psychedelic rock circus appealing to kids and their parents alike with jugglers, aerialists, and a rocking show, as well as The Palmwine Boys, who fuse acoustic African Palmwine Music with Americana. Ariane was part of the creation of Cirque du Soleil's adaptation of The Tempest, Amaluna, in Montreal.
She is an experienced sideman as well, most recently supporting guitar virtuoso Muriel Anderson and the German flamenco stars Tierra Negra on fretted and fretless basses, or Cabo Jazz pianist Diego Rodriguez and vocalist extraordinaire Daline Jones. She recently recorded with multi Grammy award winning producer Keith Olsen. Current bands include Lara Price's Girls Got the Blues, an all-star female cast of Bay Area musicians including Janice Maxie-Reid, Pam Hawkins and Annie Sampson, as well as the platinum winning band Generation Esmeralda with Jimmy Goings. She plays 80's Rock and adaptations of game music with the band Raj and the Zenmasters.
Ariane also performs a solo set featuring a genre bending selection (from Bach via Jazz to African World Music) of originals and covers performed on her effects and looping setup. Her latest project is a duo with Bassoonist Paul Hanson, the OoN Band (Out of Nowhere).
The founder of "Step Up Music Vallejo," she is also an educator. She co-conducts bass seminars and rock camps all over the US, teaching along side Steve Bailey, Leo Nocentelli, DJ Logic, Dave LaRue, Carl Verheyen, Walfredo Reyes, and others. She regularly teaches at the Berkeley Jazz School and Workshop, in high demand for her "Pattern system" approach and her creative way of integrating music theory and ear training naturally. In 2014, she was selected by the prestigious Ucross Foundation to participate in an artist in residence program in Ucross, Wyoming. She used this time to write, compose and practice 11 hours a day and more.
As a freelancing composer and sound designer, Ariane has turned out music and sound for hand held and online games for Wolf Track Audio, Karney Music, and Sound and Somatone.
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Reviews
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grantglass
06/02/21
Amazing Instructor
As someone that was self taught on bass, Ariane is a wonderful teacher and she understands how people learn. I was impressed by her pace and her explanations. While, there are so many talented musicians on this platform who just give you information without explaining it and putting it into direct practice. Many times, there are points I get completely lost, but not with her!. Learning requires structure and a process, which is provided in each one her lessons. She is a true music educator-committed to her students successes. She encourages you to take the information and make it your own, instead of being overly strict with her teaching. Many of us are adult learners and our time is limited and we must spend our practice time on the right things. Ariane understands that and she demonstrates that in every interaction I have had with her. Also, she is an incredibly nice person who really cares about her students getting results and she always gives you more. She is one of the few musicians who truly know how to teach, I would highly recommend her to anyone.
yirdaki
11/08/20
Teaching beyond the instrument
From time to time, I've been forced (not really forced as much as allowed) to pick up a bass and found myself really lost. But even if you never plan to play bass yourself, Arlene's courses are a gold mine of information on rhythm and grooves. I've picked up so much from her that I can apply to my writing and guitar playing. Seriously, her classes are not just for bass players but for everyone who wants to deepen their understand of theory, arrangement, and composition.
aditya2509
08/29/20
The Bass Virtuoso
Been a lead guitar player since a long time, last year when I was about to record a few of my original songs I wanted to play the bass as well on the tracks and didn't want to program it on the daw. I was a total beginner, but lessons from a truly amazing musician as Ariane cap got me going, the lessons were so articulate, full of groove, fun way of learning something new. Learnt a lot of stuff to add chormatics, scales, Circle of fiths, Soul and groove music bass fills, a lot to be honest. But the process was fun and a few months later I found myself playing bass for my friends band, all thanks to Ariane cap!
Joe T.
02/17/20
A true music educator-committed to her students success
Ariane is not only a master of her instrument but more importantly for this course, she knows how to teach and she understands how people learn. There are so many talented, well-intentioned musicians who think all they need to do to teach is dump information on people. That's not how we learn. Learning requires structure and a process The student is learning when they can take the information the teacher has given them and make it their own. Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code explains that for the student to learn, the teacher has to start with tiny bites and build on those bites gradually. There is no fast, short cut to mastery. Our time is limited and we must spend our practice time on the right things. The things that will help us accomplish our goals. Ariane understands that and she demonstrates that understanding in all her work. Plus, she is an incredibly nice person who really cares about her students getting results. She is part of a small sector of musicians who truly know how to teach.
