Teaching

One of Angeline's star students sitting in on a local gig.

Angeline has taught at the National Guitar Workshop, in the Marin County and LA Unified School District, and privately for over 6 years.  She got her start at San Rafael High School, where she began playing bass in the award winning jazz band, then headed by Mark Peabody (now head of Marin School for the Arts).  After high school, she went on to attend UC Berkeley for pre-law. During her four years at Cal, Angeline continued her bass studies through the extracurricular Cal Jazz program. Since graduation, she has studied with Uriah Duffy (Whitesnake) and participated in Kai Eckhardt’s mentorship program.  Angeline also had the amazing opportunity to take a lesson from bass giant Victor Wooten. “I’ve looked up to him since I was 16,” she says. “To take a lesson with him was one of the best moments of my life.”

Angeline’s number one priority is to make it fun and interesting for the student while making sure to include some solid musical theory. “Take the main guitar riff to ‘My Girl’ for example,” she says. “It’s a major pentatonic scale. If a student knows how that line goes, they already have some theory under their belt without even knowing it!”  In addition, Angeline teaches more advanced techniques specific to the bass, such as tapping and open-hammer-pluck slap style.

Angeline teaches at Bananas at Large, a music store in San Rafael, California (located just north of San Francisco).  To schedule a lesson, please email:  teaching@angelinesaris.com.