Electric bassist David Motto has been playing music professionally for thirty years. He was a member of the music faculty at San Francisco State University for 12 years and has had a private teaching studio since 1985.
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David is the co-author of the best-selling Musician’s Practice Planner, the author of the critically-acclaimed 3-volume Essential Sightreading Studies for Electric Bass, and he has written for Bass Player, Musical Merchandise Review, and School Band & Orchestra magazines.
He has appeared on over twenty commercially released recordings and has been a bassist, rehearsal director, and arranger with countless groups in virtually every genre of music.
As an expert on practicing music, he has appeared as a clinician at music conferences and universities throughout the U.S. He writes both the blog posts and the Practice Tip of the Week newsletter for Molto Music, and he authored the Top Ten Practice Tips of All Time eBook available on the Molto Music website.
David is listed in Who’s Who in America and is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences—which gives him the privilege of voting for the Grammy Awards.
