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

Discover new ways to advance your bass improvisation skills through systematic practice techniques chord/scale studies and innovative theory concepts. Whether you play electric acoustic or upright bass this book/CD pack will take your playing to the next level and beyond. The accompanying audio CD features 34 piano play-along tracks to further hone your ears and fingers. Covers: practical techniques improvisation concepts jazz theory chord studies scale patterns arpeggios and standard notation (no tab).

This Bass Part book is ideally complimented by the Suzuki Bass School Volume 4 Piano accompaniment book catalogue number ALF28360. The Suzuki Method of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability and that man is the son of his 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.

13 pieces for the beginner double bass player-Thirteen pieces for the beginner double bass player that will provide playing fun based on sound principles for this grand instrument. It contains short pieces by both classical and more contemporary composers.

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.

The award-winning Essential String Method offers an exciting advance in the teaching of stringed instruments integrating musical awareness creativity and technical development from the outset. Making their way through the series pupils encounter an attrractive selection of new tunes and arrangements on which to build their repertoire. The material is presented as a logical progression of musical activites involving both the instrument and the voice. These make learning fun and are easily incorporated into instrumental lessons simultaneously developping the pupil's technical and musical abilities while reinforcing aspects of the school music curriculum. Developed byleading string teachers The Essential String Method provides a proven framework that draws on recognised concepts in good teaching practice laying reliable foundations for future musical development.

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

A tutor book which takes you from basic fingering and instrument parts to playing a range of extracts of increasing difficulty.

New Technique for the Double Bass part 5- Bass player François Rabbath born in 1931 in Aleppo is a real character in the world of music. He settled in Paris in 1955 where he played with the stars (Barbara Aznavour…) while continuing as a classical instrumentalist. Throughout the four preceding volumes Rabbath’s Nouvelle technique de la contrebasse presented in a four-language version (French English German and Spanish) endeavours to free the pupil from the shackles of traditional teaching. Always guided by the same conviction -that there is no need to torture one’s body to become an instrumentalist - Rabbath rounds off his educational epic with this fifth book which will offer great musical pleasure to the trainee bass player who can take pride in having overcome the technical difficulties covered in the first four books. This collection includes real concert pieces - works of great charm such as the nostalgic Cri de Venise for double bass and piano and the Troisième Concerto with its enveloping lyricism as well as short pieces such as Souviens-tu des douze peupliers and the irresistible Mama Bahija for bass drum and organ.