English Edition-The long awaited Sassmannshaus method Early Start on the Double Bass is now here. At last students of the largest instrument in the string family can make use of this tried and tested method for beginners developed by Egon Sassmannshaus for the other string instruments and applied here to the double bass by Holger Sassmannshaus and J. Peter Close. This method will meet the needs of the growing number of young bass students.

Abracadabra Beginner is full of exciting games and songs to help you play your double bass well! You'll learn how to sit properly how to hold your double bass how to make the correct shapes with your fingers and how to hold the bow.The CD has exciting backing tracks to play along with and is great to use when you play at home. Full of fun and easy songs rhymes and games CD packed with exciting games and backing tracks Play at home in your lessons and with your friends Focuses on the very first steps of string playing with a wealth of ideas and activities to establish good posture bow hold andfinger position Activities and games to build and develop musicianship skills with a structured introduction to reading notation

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

This is the brand new addition to the string series. Full of new pieces, mixed with arrangements of old favourites. Ideal for Double Bassists who are between grades 2-4. 28 Items:

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.

For Violone-Very little is known about the two sonatas which appear here in their original keys. They were placed in the library of the Music School in Oxford at the end of the seventeenth century in a form convenient for playing (i.e. unbound). The library was catalogued by Hake between 1850 and 1855 and the sonatas were eventually bound in 1855 with other instrumental and vocal manuscripts of the same period some of which are dated 1698.The sonatas are both inscribed on the title page Sonata Violone Solo. Col Basso per l'Organo o Cembalo. A third sonata bears the words Sonata Violino e Violoncino … di Giovannino del Violone. Giovannino (=Little or Young John) musthave been a performer and although the third sonata has been copied by a different hand it is conceivable that Giovannino is a connecting link between the three. He cannot however be assumed to be their author.The Violone was a six-stringed instrument with frets and there is evidence to suggest that the Contrabasso of the same period was similar but probably a little larger; the Violoncino (=Little Violone or Violoncello) must have been smaller. The word 'Violone' was also used as a collective term embracing all members of the Viol family which means that the sonatas might well have been written for a tenor or a bass Viol and not necessarily a Violone as such. Indeed when they are played on a Violone or Double Bass the continuo bass line must be played at a lower pitch than the solo instrument to prevent inversion of the intended harmony. (The use of a Violone/Double Bass continuo or 16' organ tone would overcome this problem.)The editor has added no ornaments or embellishments to the solo part as it appears in the original manuscript. It is open to debate whether a Violone player owing to the very nature of his instrument would have used any but the simplest melodic decorations. Nevertheless the performer should acquaint himself thoroughly with those seventeenth century traditions that are known today (see Dart

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.

At last here is a method book for the upright string bass or 'dog house bass' as it is affectionately known in bluegrass circles. Although bluegrass bass has a style of its own the knowledge gained through this methodis applicable to virtually any musical genre. This book addresses the elements of tuning hand positions essential chord theory slap bass technique and playing in positions 1-10. A handy chart is provided for transposingchord progressions from one key to another. Written in standard notation only.

An interesting and cleverly created cooncerto that is enjoyable and easy on the ear! Composed in 1971 by Alan Ridout here are two simple movements with strings suitable for grades 5 and 8 and are set as part of the ABRSM examinations.