Jazz with Eric
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Send what you're working on. Eric sends a lesson back.
Personal feedback on your playing, questions, and practice. On your own time.
From $50/month
What you get
Knowledge is cheap. Insights are scarce.
Every scale, every exercise, every great recording is one search away. What's harder to find is someone who hears how you play.
Listening works both ways. You and Eric stay in conversation. Your recordings, your questions, their insights, your practice shaped around where you actually are.
Not a course with Eric's face on it. Eric.
In Eric's words
Meet the musician on the other side.
🎻 Learn Bass with Eric Wheeler - World-class jazz bass guidance for a fraction of the cost
Brooklyn-based bassist Eric Wheeler blends classical precision with the soulful depth of modern jazz. Trained at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and later earning both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Howard University, Eric has toured internationally and performed with icons like Kenny Garrett, Pharoah Sanders, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Roy Hargrove, and Cyrus Chestnut.
💬 How metempo Works - study with Eric for far less than the cost of weekly private lessons, while still getting real, personalized guidance from a master performer.
Metempo blends the personal depth of a private teacher with the flexibility of a modern app — and dramatically reduces the cost of studying with an artist of Eric’s caliber.
- Custom video lessons built around your playing
- Ongoing chat for feedback, questions, and musical direction
- Daily practice prompts that build consistency
- Learn anytime, anywhere — on your schedule
It’s private instruction made flexible and affordable.
🎼 What Eric Teaches
Eric brings warmth, clarity, and soul to every lesson.
- Jazz time feel & groove
- Walking bass lines & harmonic understanding
- Arco fundamentals & classical technique
- Improvisation, phrasing & musical storytelling
- Foundational skills for upright & electric bass
Your lessons evolve as you do — no rigid course, just real feedback and steady progress.
💡 Why Learn with Eric
- 💸 Save hundreds compared to weekly lessons
- 🎻 Direct, ongoing feedback from a world-class bassist
- 📈 Clear structure to build confidence and tone
- 🌍 Great for advancing players in jazz, classical, or crossover styles
Eric has a welcome video waiting inside — jump in, say hello, and start building deeper groove, time, and musical expression.
See it in practice
Inside the conversation.
Real moments with real students Eric works with on metempo. Not polished tutorials. Not generic advice. A look at the back-and-forth that makes practice move forward.
Shared with student permission.
How it works
A back-and-forth, not a broadcast.
metempo keeps the musical conversation going, even when you're practicing alone. Share what you're working on, ask what you're wondering, and let Eric shape the next step around you.
You send what's real.
A question. A rough take. A passage that keeps falling apart. A goal you don't know how to reach yet. metempo gives all of that somewhere to go.
Eric responds with direction.
You get focused practice, feedback, ideas, and next steps shaped around what you sent. Not a fixed syllabus everyone else receives too.
The conversation keeps moving.
You can return with questions, updates, recordings, or stuck moments whenever they come up. No need to save everything for a weekly lesson.
Your progress starts to have a shape.
Every exchange becomes part of the record: what you tried, what changed, what clicked, and where Eric guided you next. Over time, you stop losing track of where you've been and what's finally starting to click.
Practice feels different when there's someone on the other side.
Stay close to Eric.
Your practice, with someone in it. Recordings, questions, feedback, and focused work, on your own time.
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