Training
•Four-year Honours Degree developing bass performance through private lessons, ensembles, group classes, production, songwriting, composition, recording technology, and music business
•Humber's jazz framework spans pop, R&B, Latin, and world music while building musicianship through ear training, theory, improvisation, and history
Performance & Productions
•Toronto's professional music community supports ensemble work and industry connections
•Every student completes a major fourth-year recording project and professional-quality portfolio
Bass Focus
•The audition profile centers on electric or acoustic bass technique, musicality, accurate pitch, and time feel
•Students prepare a jazz standard such as Autumn Leaves, All the Things You Are, or How Insensitive with melody, a bass line, and an improvised solo, plus a prepared etude
•Two-octave G major and B-flat harmonic minor scales and one-octave seventh-chord arpeggios reinforce the technical foundation
