Fine Day? is a work for unaccompanied double bass that portrays a conversation between two Hirta wifies perhaps meeting by chance while going about their daily lives. The first lady is older calm and serene - she's seen it all before and expects to see nothing new. In bar 9 a younger lady appears - much more animated and excited and bursting with gossip.The characters converse with a double bar and often a tempo change indicating the change of speaker. While the younger lady becomes very animated (and slightly frustrated) trying to ply her elder with today's juiciest gossip the older lady remains calm and serene apparently showing little interest untilthe final bars where after her neighbour has walked away she smiles and we see that she was listening after all...Skerry Selkie: 'Skerry' is an old Norse word for a small rocky island in the sea. Most Skerries are populated only by birds and seals. 'Selkie' is a local dialect word used right along the north coast of Scotland to describe seals. It also refers to a creature of Norse myth which could transform from seal to human form at will. Selkies like mermaids would mischievously enchant sailors with their beautiful singing...

Take Your Bow is a collection of 20 concert pieces for beginner string players written by Celia Cobb and Naomi Yandell. Years of string teaching have given them the inspiration to produce pieces which will both delight and engage. Their imaginative writing strengthens rhythmic and stylistic concepts whilst employing a variety of adventurous playing techniques that students will find to be a fun and achievable challenge. Each piece is compatible with any of the other instruments in the series in any combination making it an excellent resource for individual or group teaching. Take Your Bow is available in 4individual editions — for violin viola cello and double bass each with piano accompaniment — and as a separate full score.

This book from one of the most popular bass players in the business brings players great tools to improve their skills. Bass players can advance their knowledge of the fingerboard improve intonation and time develop flexibility and work though modes and scales presented in the book. This work combines music and technique in one powerful package!

Does the thought of sight-reading make you groan? The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve Your Sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously gradedsight-reading pieces.New edition devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012.

Dirt Simple Upright Bass. Although designed for newcomers to the upright bass and bluegrass music in general, this unique approach to creating basslines has something for everyone! The first half focuses on bass-playing essentials, giving the reader a solid technical footing with the instrument. Then, using his own baritone voice and the classic bluegrass song, ?Going Down the Road Feeling Bad,? author Nate Sabat reveals his creative process in crafting effective basslines from the song?s melody and chord progression. The second half focuses on bass playing within the specific context of complementing bluegrass vocals. Well beyond what you might expect from an introductory method, Nate tastefully guides the reader by presenting multiple composed bassline options for each of five well-known bluegrass songs: Rabbit in the Log, Don?t this Road Look Rough and Rocky?, Long Journey Home, I Am a Pilgrim, and Angel Band.Nate?s warm, pitch-perfect vocals can be heard on virtually every track, giving this method an undeniable musicality. A lightly accompanied vocal track with no bass is also provided, so you can be the sole upright or electric bassist in the band. You?ll not only want to back Nate up?but sing harmony with him too! The impulse to sing can?t help but influence your bass playing in a natural and positive way. Nate provides notated versions of the eight major scales most commonly used in bluegrass. Once you get them under your fingers, you?ll soon be able to play along with the book?s 50 companion online recordings.With its simple harmonic palette and repetitive nature, bluegrass music offers bassists the perfect opportunity to become musically literate. If you?ve hesitated to learn to read music, this is the time and place to eliminate that drawback. Working through these 46 pages will provide the tools and confidence needed to create your own engaging and musical basslines and hopefully, you?ll be inspired to continue your bluegrass bass journey for years to come. Includes access to online audio.

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.

The Belwin String Builder is a string class method in which the violin, viola, cello, and bass play together throughout. Each book, however, is a complete unit and may be used separately for class or individual instruction. The material in this book is realistically graded so that only a minimum of explanatory material is required. Each melody is interesting and will provide the basis for a fine left hand technic and bow arm. Available in three levels for violin, viola, cello, bass, piano accompaniment, and teacher's manual.

Par RUBIN MARK. Mark Rubin et Kevin Smith vous montrent la façon facile de jouer simple, double et triple des gifles sur beaucoup de styles de musique populaire. Vous apprendrez rockabilly, bluegrass, Tex-Mex polkas, Tonk, Chicago blues, boogie, pays et swing. Comprend une manifestation spéciale d'échantillons solos. Close up et ralentit les versions de la marque de chansons d'apprentissage facile. Remarque : cette vidéo utilise la contrebasse. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Rock - Solos / Accessoire / Contrebasse

Par POSTEL-VINAY EMILIE. Ecrire une méthode de contrebasse, quand on enseigne, est certainement chose incontournable... Pourtant, peu de professeurs se lancent dans cette aventure, car c'en est une ! Il faut pour cela avoir la foi, ce besoin de transmettre ce que l'on sait. C'est le cas d'Emilie Postel-Vinay. Sa méthode est classique et, aussi, inventive. Alors, je ne doute pas de son efficacité ! Sylvain Wiener (Professeur au C.N.R. d'Aubervilliers - La Courneuve, Assistant au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Contrebassiste de l'Ensemble Orchestral de Paris La contrebasse a beaucoup évolué au fil du temps. D'instrument d'accompagnement, elle est devenue soliste sans pour autant renier ses origines. Ses graves sont les piliers harmoniques d'un orchestre, et leur puissance sait affirmer le juste rythme ! Le répertoire s'est considérablement enrichi, entraînant ainsi de nouvelles difficultés techniques. Cette méthode s'adresse à tous les débutants, qu'ils soient très jeunes ou un peu moins, durant les deux ou trois premières années du premier cycle. Elle vise à donner dès les premiers exercices le plaisir de jouer. La progression se veut ludique. Chaque leçon se découpe en trois parties : - La première, la plus technique, se compose d'exercices pour la sonorité et l'agilité des doigts. - La deuxième propose des duos. L'élève, dès le début, joue avec son professeur. Cela lui permet d'accéder à la musique de chambre, de se former l'oreille, d'entendre son professeur jouer une partie plus difficile que la sienne, ainsi que de se produire assez rapidement ! - La troisième partie est principalement constituée de pièces accompagnées par le piano. A cela s'ajoutent quelques devinettes et des chansons populaires... Emilie Postel-Vinay / Niveau : Débutant / méthode - études / Méthode / Contrebasse

Depuis les années 1950, la contrebasse a joué un rôle distinct dans le Rockabilly sonore, qu'unique DVD d'un Lee Rocker vous donne un gros plan guide à la technique de gifle passionnant. En combinant les notes bass pincées avec la claque de la paume frapper les cordes contre la touche, spectaculaires patrons multi-rhythmic peuvent être créés que s'arrête tout spectacle ! Didacticiel du Rocker comprend une foule de renseignements concernant l'amplification, montage basse et obtenir la meilleure possible sonore, ainsi que fournir un guide exhaustif de tous les aspects de la technique de la gifle. En outre, vous seront traitées à des performances à couper le souffle par Big Blue, vous indiquant exactement comment la contrebasse de Rockabilly devrait paraître dans le cadre d'une bande. / Guitare Basse

This new book from one of the most popular bass players in the business brings players great tools to improve their skills. Bass players can advance their knowledge of the fingerboard, improve intonation and time, develop flexibility and work though modes and scales presented in the book. This work combines music and technique in one powerful package! Langue : en anglais

Note-for-note transcriptions of 18 classic performances-A tribute to Ray Brown including 18 transcriptions performance notes photos and a foreword by Christian McBride.Songs include: Autumn in New York • Custard Puff • Days of Wine and Roses • Easy Does It • Gravy Waltz • Have You Met Miss Jones? • How High the Moon • I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) • I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People) • Killer Joe • Love Is Here to Stay • Mack the Knife • Minor Mystery • Moten Swing • Night Train • Sometimes I'm Happy • The Surrey with the Fringe on Top • Tune Up.

Performed by Geoffrey Applegate violin Accompaniment: Stuttgart Festival Orchestra Conductor: Emil Kahn A favorite of audiences and performers this concerto glows with exuberance and solid structural beauty. You play either the first or second part; or get together with a friend for a thrilling duet concerto eperience with full orchestra! Contains a printed solo part newly engraved and printed on beautiful acid-free ivory paper; and two compact disc featuring the complete concerto performed with both solo violins then again in three accompaniment versions: minus the first violin; minus the second violin; and minus both violins; and the accompaniments given again at -20%speed for practice purposes.