Academically Thinking...
Before joining Scott's Bass Lessons, Philip was a quintessential part of London's 'Institute of Contemporary Music and Performance’ bass faculty. Not only a senior lecturer, his commissioned course writing enveloped a vast array of academia - ranging from Part Time and Diploma programmes, to Bachelors and Masters Degree materials.
The success and quality of his materials resulted in an international decoration from The Players School of Music, in Florida: awarding him a ‘Certificate of Academic Excellence’ in response to ‘on going dedication and devotion to music’. Scott Devine describes him as "a natural born teacher", Jeff Berlin heralds him as "one of three go-to tutors in Europe".
Academically Thinking...
Before joining Scott's Bass Lessons, Philip was a quintessential part of London's 'Institute of Contemporary Music and Performance’ bass faculty. Not only a senior lecturer, his commissioned course writing enveloped a vast array of academia - ranging from Part Time and Diploma programmes, to Bachelors and Masters Degree materials.
The success and quality of his materials resulted in an international decoration from The Players School of Music, in Florida: awarding him a ‘Certificate of Academic Excellence’ in response to ‘on going dedication and devotion to music’. Scott Devine describes him as "a natural born teacher", Jeff Berlin heralds him as "one of three go-to tutors in Europe".
Academically Thinking...
Before joining Scott's Bass Lessons, Philip was a quintessential part of London's 'Institute of Contemporary Music and Performance’ bass faculty. Not only a senior lecturer, his commissioned course writing enveloped a vast array of academia - ranging from Part Time and Diploma programmes, to Bachelors and Masters Degree materials.
The success and quality of his materials resulted in an international decoration from The Players School of Music, in Florida: awarding him a ‘Certificate of Academic Excellence’ in response to ‘on going dedication and devotion to music’. Scott Devine describes him as "a natural born teacher", Jeff Berlin heralds him as "one of three go-to tutors in Europe".
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"Phil Mann is alongside Steve Bailey,
Bruce Getz, John Patitucci and Victor Wooten
as one of my top five instructors on the planet”
Jeff Berlin
The Bottom Line!
All the news and latest from With Bass In Mind...
With Bass In Mind's Webinar Series!
New to '26 is the launch of With Bass In Mind's '10 @ 10' masterclass series.
This wonderful new facet to the WBIM platform will give students to opportunity to participate in small numbered live masterclasses over Zoom - find out more here
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Our Mann in Boston!
From the Player's School of Music to Scott's Bass Lessons, Bassisst and Bass Player Magazine - there's not much absent from Philip's resume, but now there's an association with one of the most seminal name's in music education; Berklee College of Music.
Mann Joins The Elite!
With Bass In Mind is incredibly proud to announce that Philip has just signed a string deal with legendary UK based company; Elites' Strings.
Utilising a custom gauge (130:100:80:65:45), all of Philip's Overwater basses are now proudly strung with The Bass Centre's Nickel wound 'Players Series' strings
You can discover more about information about this fantastic range of products, exclusively through the world's first, foremost and most famous bass guitar specialist; www.basscentre.com
The WBIM Finally Gets An Update...
Released in the autumn of '23, The 'With Bass In Mind Edition' of Sushi FX's 'Finally' Tube DI made quite the splash - Janek Gwizdala announced that "I don't think there's really anything else that comes close to it on the market" in his 'Bass D.I. Shootout', and both Steve Bailey and Victor Wooten are owners! But standing still is not something that we do at WBIM - thus in the spring of '25 v3 of this infamous unit has been released, with the main update being the inclusion of a variable HPF at Philip's request. Finally v3
Bass Review Magazine Cover Boy!
It only took three decades of hard work, but finally Philip's an over night success!
A seminal moment after thirty years of service to the music industry! A beautifully constructed, detailed interview, reflecting upon a life in the music. From grammy award winners, to touring shows, signature guitars and branded DI pedals - it's all in Issue 16 of 'Bass Review Magazine'.
Chord Tone Concepts Completed!
After eleven years of composition and drafting, the infamous Chord Tone Concepts
series is finally complete! But more excitingly; this volume of the series has Berklee Collage of Music's stamp of approval, as bass chair Steve Bailey has been kind enough to supply the publications foreword! But it's not just the arrival of volume four that'll make bass journalistic headlines, as the preceding volumes have also had a face lift - with volume two now sporting a foreword from the highly respected welsh wizard, Laurence Cottle.
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The Publishing Centenary!
September '18: not a month many of you will bookmark as a significant 30 days that changed the path of the universe - but for this little cockney bassist it proved an autumnal benchmark, as I was able to realised a journalistic ambition and appear simultaneously on the front cover of both Bass Guitar Magazine (UK), and Bass Player (USA).
'In Conversation With...' Season Two!
Season Two of With Bass In Mind's 'in conversation with' has just commenced filming - and the list of guests is EPIC! All of Season One is available to stream for free via our YouTube channel, so stop by and catch up with this epic series of interviews! WBiM YouTube