Both volumes 1 and 2 of the Yorke Studies for Double Bass have well over 100 short studies and exercises each with different fingerings and in different keys. This first volume continues from elementary studies and contains simple yet tuneful exercises for beginners which constitute a complete guide to the half and first positions. ABRSM Double Bass Syllabus Grades 1-3.

The second volume of studies and exercises for Double Bass concentrating on second to fourth positions. Editor Rodney Slatford has selected a relatively simple and tuneful repertoire designed to aid technique and fluency in playing. Both volumes of Double Bass Studies include a glossary of terms scales arpeggios and orchestral excerpts. Suitable for the equivalent of ABRSM Grade 5.

SOLO TUNING See RM722 for Orchestral Tuning The 'Dragonetti Concerto' was first published in 1925 by Alphonse Leduc in Paris as No.23 of Edouard Nanny's 'Les Classiques de la Contrebasse'. For many years no one questioned its authenticity, but as more research into Dragonetti's original works for double bass was made, concerns began to arise. Many of Dragonetti manuscripts survive in the British Library, thanks to Vincent Novello who donated them in 1849, three years after Dragonetti's death and on Novello's retirement to Italy, but there is no original manuscript for this work. As bassists began to edit and perform a wide range of Dragonetti's works it became clear that this concerto bore little resemblance to any of his other pieces. The work does, however, have many similarities to Nanny's Concerto for double bass, also to his other solo works and even studies from his Method. Eventually most people came to the conclusion that this work is not an original work by the great Venetian bassist but is by Edouard Nanny, and in the style of the late 18th-century. Having said that, this is still a charming and evocative work which has much player and audience appeal and is very easy on the ears. Many of the challenges for the soloist are technical and, almost a century after its first publication, it is still as popular as ever. Published in 1925, the first movement was performed at London's Wigmore Hall on 15 April the following year by Victor Watson (double bass) and Sidney Crooke (piano), and was described a 'Contrabass Concerto by Dragonetti-Nanny. ERRATA: Piano part: page 8 (1st movement), bar 87 - final chord of bar in right hand should be D/E/G# - a dominant 7th chord in A major Edouard Nanny was an important French double bassist and teacher, also composing and transcribing many works for double bass. He was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 24 March 1872 and he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Professor Verrimst, also teaching there from 1920-1940. He performed often as a soloist, also working as an orchestral bassist with many orchestras such as the Paris Symphony Orchestra, Concerts Lamoureux and the Orchestra de l'Opera Comique, and in 1901 he founded the Henry Casadeus Society of Old Instruments, chaired by Camille Saint-Saens, and intended to revive the works from the past centuries. Nanny's Method for double bass is still in print, over 90 years since its first publication and both volumes contain a wealth of excellent technical studies and exercises which are as relevant today as they were in the 1920s. His other volumes of studies are mostly out of print and Recital Music plan to reprint some of his orginal works for double bass, transcriptions and educational music to keep alive the name of Edouard Nanny into the 21st-century. Edouard Nanny died in Paris in 1942.

Studies for Bass - Based on the Violin Studies of Franz Wohlfahrt-The goal of Mastering The Bow Part 1 is to help bassists expand their tonal vocabularies: to learn to make a wide variety of colours and shapes with music. The left hand makes no sound; it is the bow that creates articulations rhythms and rises and falls within a phrase. Using the famous Franz Wohlfahrt Studies for Violin as the basis Gaelen McCormick has selected and edited these etudes to teach and reinforce bowing techniques for the bass. Quite simply there is no other book out there for string bass players that addresses bow technique in this manner and Mastering the Bow will greatly enhance the pedagogical repertoire for theinstruction of the bass. All bassists should have this as part of their study materials. For beginning to intermediate players.

520 Exercises include 58 Musical Studies in Positions 1 through 7-Written by Janice Tucker Rhoda author of the popular ABCs of Strings method the Complete Technique For Double Bass series is designed for advanced beginners to upper level students wishing to learn or improve their left hand and right arm bow skills.Starting in first position and proceeding carefully through the higher positions these method books use short studies to demonstrate specific technical ideas.The book starts with solidifying the combination of note reading rhythm and bow distribution then quickly progresses to a variety of bowing techniques and use of positions 1 - 7 half and thumb position explaining the physicalityof the left and right hands arms elbows and shoulders. Using a mixture of more melodic studies with purely technical exercises this book quickly gives players information and confidence to improve their playing.Complete Technique For Double Bass - Book 1 covers and includes:Positions 1 through 7Half PositionBass tenor and treble clefsTwo octave C Major Scale to thumb positionAdvanced chromatic scaleBasic thumb positionWorksheets for note-readingScales arpeggios broken thirdsImprovisational melodiesDouble-Stops chords octavesHarmonicsArm Swing left-hand and bow-arm techniqueBow balancing exercisesBallet of Shifting exercisesQuick Finger exercisesFinger Substitution exercisesLeft-hand pizzicato exercisesTeaching points throughout

For the development of technical skills and improved intonation this A Scale In Time - Double Bass edition features a full collection of scales chorales etudes and an expanded alternative styles section all in one book!A Scale In Time features:One and two octave scale patterns Major natural minor and melodic minor Improvisation loops studies and tunes for training in alternative styles Blues mixolydian and lydian scales Etudes Chorales Rhythm Studies

Complete Method For The Double Bass - Part 1 is the first of a series of two created by Edouard Nanny a French Double-Bass player teacher and composer. Conceived as a way to acquire a correct technique and a good sonority the Complete Method For The Four- And Five-Stringed Double Bass - Part 1 is perfect for beginners and intermediate beginners. Including scales exercises and small studies this first volume is completed with a second part for intermediate players. Edouard Nanny(1872-1942) had internal recognition as a composer during his lifetime and composed two concerti andadditional methods such as Twenty Virtuoso Studies among others.

Revisione di Piermario Murelli. Par BOTTESINI GIOVANNI. Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889) is certainly the most famous of all double bass virtuosi; his compositions are an essential pillar of the literature on this instrument. His Metodo, published in 1870 by Ricordi, is remarkable for the exceptional beauty of its studies which, with effectiveness, good taste and imagination, develop an extraordinarily modern pedagogical vision. For this reason, on the bicentenary of the composer\'s birth, it seems most opportune to re-propose the studies in the method, appropriately fingered according to the current system, which is different from the one used in Italy in the mid-19th century. These short pieces not only help the student to acquire an excellent technique in a short time, but they are also extremely useful to better understand the instrumental language of Bottesini; in particular the second part, constitutes an excellent propaedeutic base for the study of his famous pieces./ Etude / Contrebasse

Bai Lin's Lip Flexibilities has become (and should be) a standard on the music stands of brass players everywhere, mentioned in one breath with the likes of Schlossberg and Irons. The trumpet professor at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, Bai Lin created an organized set of flexibility studies ranging from elementary to advanced skill levels. Balquhidder now releases a bass clef edition to benefit even more players of cupped instruments.

It is rare in music pedagogy that something truly revolutionary comes along. Progressive Repertoire is the first English language method for beginning Double Bass to incorporate the innovative division of the Bass fingerboard into six positions developed by renowned French bassist Fran?ºois Rabbath in his three volume Nouvelle Technique de la Contrebasse. Mr. Vance has created a method that introduces these revolutionary ideas in a progressive manner using familiar folk and classical material to produce studies and pieces that will appeal to novice Basses of all ages. In addition a Compact Disc is included with each of the primary books containing all the music performed byFran?ºois Rabbath with Elizabeth Azcona-Hartmark piano.Progressive Repertoire for Double Bass will introduce American teachers and students to the most important techniques developed for the instrument.

Out of print for most of the 20th century this method comprises some 200 valuable progressive studies newly edited for a four stringed instrument with revised fingering and modern notation. ABRSM Double Bass Syllabus.

Giovanni Bottesini ranks as one of the most famous Double Bass virtuosi ever to have lived. His Metodo Completo Per Contrabbasso or Method For Double Bass appeared in print between 1860 and 1970 in French Italian and English. The value of Bottesini's method lies in the gradual progression from simple exercises and rhythms in easy keys to virtuoso studies that use advance bowing techniques and require a thorough knowledge of the instrument. Grade: 8