Does this sound like you?

🧠You're not a beginner. You've been playing for a while. You know your way around the bass — you can hold down a groove, you understand basic chord theory, you've watched plenty of YouTube lessons.

😕And yet every time it's your turn to solo, the same thing happens: your mind goes blank. Or worse — it floods. You think of the Dorian mode, then Mixolydian, then someone told you to use arpeggios, but wait, what about the chord tones, and should you be thinking horizontally or vertically — and by the time any of that resolves, the moment is gone.

You fall back on the same three safe licks. Again.

📚The frustrating part? It's not that you haven't studied. You've studied too much. You've collected approaches, watched tutorials, bought courses. You know pentatonics, you've heard about the chord-scale system, someone mentioned superimposition once. You're drowning in options and paralyzed by all of them.

Here's what nobody says out loud:

• More information is making it worse. Every new approach adds another layer of "what should I use right now?" — and that question is exactly what kills a solo

• You know what good soloing sounds like. You've listened to enough great players. But knowing what you want to sound like and being able to produce it in real time are completely different skills

• The modes aren't helping. You've tried to learn them. Maybe you have. But they don't show up when the music is moving — because knowing a mode and knowing which one to reach for are not the same thing

• The years are going by. Every year you tell yourself this is the year you crack improvisation. And every year the changes still feel like a wall

Here's the truth: the thing blocking most intermediate bassists from soloing freely isn't a lack of knowledge. It's a lack of one clear starting point — one system that cuts through the noise and tells you exactly what to play, right now, over this chord.

More scales won't solve it. More modes won't solve it. What solves it is fewer, better options — and the confidence that comes from knowing them cold.

I'll be straight with you.

I'm Lorin Cohen — professional bassist and educator based in New York City. For over 25 years I've toured and recorded with jazz luminaries including Monty Alexander, Joe Locke, and Larry Fuller, performing at venues including Birdland and Mezzrow.

I hold a Master's Degree in Jazz Studies from Queens College (CUNY), have taught at the City University of New York, and my YouTube channel has surpassed views. My debut album Home was recognized by DownBeat Magazine.

I've spent decades inside the deepest soloing tradition there is — jazz harmony. And what I've learned, from performing at the highest level and from working with hundreds of adult students, is this:

Most intermediate players don't fail at soloing because they lack knowledge. They fail because they have too much of it with no clear hierarchy. No one ever told them which tool to reach for first.

Jazz demands that clarity. You can't fake your way through complex changes with vague ideas about scales. You have to know — instantly, automatically — where to go. The Entry Point System takes that jazz-level precision and makes it accessible to any bassist, at any level, in any style.

That's not a marketing claim. It's what I see happen every time a student stops trying to know everything and starts committing to one clear system.

I've worked with adult bassists at every level. And I know exactly who's reading this page right now.

You might be the player who knows a lot but can't access it under pressure. You've studied modes, you've worked through scale patterns, you understand chord theory — but the second it's your turn to solo, all of it vanishes. You don't need more information. You need a system that makes the right choice obvious in the moment.

You might be the player who's been bouncing between approaches. Someone told you to use pentatonics. Someone else said chord tones. Another teacher said think about arpeggios. You've tried all of them, none of them stuck, and now you have a head full of half-learned systems that conflict with each other every time you try to play. What you need is one approach you can commit to — and actually master.

You might be the player with 20 minutes a night. Full-time job, family, limited practice windows. You can't afford to spend that time wandering through a content library trying to figure out what to work on. You need someone to give you one clear thing to practice — and explain exactly why it will make you a better soloist.

You might be the player who sounds fine on familiar tunes but falls apart on anything new. You've got a handful of progressions you can navigate — but the moment someone calls a tune you haven't specifically prepared, you're back to survival mode. The Entry Point System gives you a framework that works on any changes, not just the ones you've memorized.

You might be the player who's bought courses before and didn't finish them. The issue wasn't motivation — it was that the course kept adding more to learn without ever giving you a clear, actionable system for what to play when you solo. This is built differently.

If any of those sound like you, keep reading.

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