Because a fine orchestra depends on fine players, Solo Time for Strings emphasizes individual accomplishment, progress, and achievement while preparing young students for participation in a school orchestra. The series teaches reading in conjunction with note learning, enabling students to start playing melodies as soon as possible, and is appropriate for class or individual instruction. The solos assist in a progressive technical development from 'twinkle, twinkle' in Book 1 to music by Vivaldi in Book 5. / Contrebasse

This collection presents 195 carefully graded sight-reading pieces and exercises in a range of musical styles, for solo Double Bass. Taking an approach based on self-learning, the 11 sections of the book focus on developing different key technical skills as well as introducing the student to a plethora of musical terms.Each section of the book contains solos, as well as Double Bass duets, and pieces with piano accompaniment for practising ensemble sight-reading. Suitable for preliminary, to advanced level students. Part of the comprehensive Sight-Reading series published by Schott and edited by John Kember. / Contrebasse

The Suzuki Method® of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Dr. Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the greatest joy an adult can know comes from developing a child's potential so he/she can express all that is harmonious and best in human beings. Students are taught using the 'mother-tongue' approach. Now available as a book and CD kit. / Contrebasse

La construction des lignes de contrebasse est abordée de façon détaillée dans cet ouvrage : notes réelles, notes de passage et autres gammes, arpèges, cadences et anatoles y sont analysés pour vous permettre d'élaborer par la suite vos propres walkings. Les modes et les accords enrichis, matériaux essentiels à l'interprétation des walkings, sont aussi abordés de manière très complète. Des tourneries vous sont proposées dans les tonalités principales afin de vous familiariser et de vous apprendre les enchaînements d'accords courants et fréquents dans le jazz. C'est une sorte de dictionnaire des plans de contrebasse, à la fois pratique et didactique. En plus des walkings ou lignes de contrebasse, vous étudierez des rythmes latins et le rôle rythmique de l'instrument, tout en considérant la contrebasse comme une voix à part entière, qui chante dans l'orchestre. Le CD complète l'enseignement, en vous permettant d'entendre les nombreux exemples et autres morceaux, mais aussi de les interpréter sur des playbacks. / Contrebasse

This collection of 23 holiday favorites will not only motivate beginning string students in the classroom, but will also encourage home chamber music sessions. The flexible format allows the book to be used with any combination of instruments, from a solo player with piano accompaniment to a full string ensemble. Correlated with specific pages in the Strictly Strings method. / Contrebasse

Comme son titre l'indique clairement, la vocation première de cette méthode est de vous faire pratiquer la contrebasse jazz au travers de nombreux exemples et autres morceaux complets. Cet ouvrage sera l'occasion de travailler la construction des lignes de contrebasse et plus spécifiquement les notions de notes réelles, notes de passage et autres gammes, arpèges, modes, accords enrichis, cadences et anatoles, qui vous permettront d'élaborer par la suite vos propres walkings. De nombreuses tourneries vous sont proposées dans les tonalités principales, afin de vous familiariser avec les enchaînements d'accords courants et fréquents dans le jazz. Une sorte de dictionnaire des plans de contrebasse, pratique et didactique ! Enfin, le DVD Vidéo reprend chaque exercice pour en faciliter la compréhension, alors que le CD Audio vous propose de nombreux playbacks sur lesquels vous pourrez mettre en application les enseignements mais aussi vous exercer en toute liberté. / Contrebasse

François Rabbath was born into a musical family in Aleppo, Syria, in 1931. Self-taught, he discovered the Double Bass at the age of thirteen. After moving with his family to Beirut in 1946, he played in a quartet with his brothers in restaurants and hotels. At the age of twenty-two, with the encouragement of violinist Yehudi Menuhin and pianist José Iturbi, he developed an original approach to the art of Double Bass playing. In 1955 he settled in Paris and earned his living accompanying Charles Aznavour, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, Barbara, Yves Montand, Guy Béart, Georges Moustaki and other well-known names of the French Chanson. His first LP, in 1962, earned him the Grand Prix du Disque award by the Académie Charles Cros. He has recorded several CDs and DVDs since then, with works including Bach's six Suites for solo Cello, played on the Double Bass. He also composes and performs music for films and television, and he now appears all over the world. During one of his concerts, at the Maison de la Radio in Paris in 1972, he met Jean Leduc, who offered to publish a method explaining his new techniques for holding the Double Bass and its bow and for use of the left hand. He teaches this technique in master classes. He also invented the 'crab technique' (so called because the hand movement resembles the sideways walking of a crab), whereby the hand can move up and down the string without ever fully shifting. François Rabbath is the founder of the international Rabbath institute Paris (IRIP), where Double Bass players from many countries come to study his new technique. He also loves graphic art,, and since giving an exhibition in Paris in 2010, he is also known for his drawings. / Contrebasse