The Art of Double Bass Playing

SKU: HL.48025120

ISBN 9781705168189. UPC: 196288079743. 9.0x12.0x0.318 inches.

This double bass method offers exciting and comprehensive studies from the very beginning up to the most advanced levels of double bass playing.

SKU: HL.49019606

ISBN 9790001187176.

Teac hers again and again ask for easy-to-play double bass music suitable for lessons or the competition 'Jugend musiziert'. The composer Peter Wittrich from Munich has undertaken this task and composed a varied cycle of seven easy pieces for double bass and piano. All pieces have been tried and tested in double bass lessons and are well positioned on the instrument. Some can even be played in the first position. The collection covers various styles, including blues, tango and classical. The piano part is more demanding so that the demands made on the ensemble playing are somewhat higher. An interesting addition to the repertoire for lessons and concerts. Contents: Giovannino discovers the Blues • Gostly Cadenza • Walking Bass with Johann Sebastian Bach • Salute to Vienna with a kiss on the hand for Elise • Danse grotesque • Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass (Theme and Variations) • Basso doble.

SKU: BT.YE0007

Born in Oxford in 1917, Francis Baines was a well-known and much respected professional double bass player. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Claude Hobday, where he later taught. Something of an eccentric,he immersed himself in early music at a time when few people were taking it seriously. He owned a beautiful Amati bass that he had restored as a violone, which it probably was originally, and he was a regular fixture as aprincipal player in a number of orchestras and ensembles that dedicated themselves to period performing, including those directed by Denys Darlow, with whom he broadcast and recorded frequently.

Besi des playing thedoublebass, Francis Baines was an exponent of the treble viol and led the Jaye Consort of Viols which he founded. He also played several kinds of bagpipe and the hurdy-gurdy. As a composer he dabbled in many styles, one of hisgreatest claims to fame being that of writing for the popular Hoffnung concerts in the 1960s.

He was the author of a number of papers about the history of the double bass, sometimes arriving at scholarly conclusionsthat were colourful, if not always entirely accurate. He discovered the Giovannino del Violone sonatas, subsequently published by Yorke Edition, although today it is thought that they were probably not written for a 16' pitchinstrument at all. His edition of the Capuzzi double bass concerto, published by Boosey & Hawkes, was for many years one of the few solo works available for the instrument. This, however, he largely re-composed because hethought it could be improved: towards the end of his life he confessed that with hindsight he probably should have treated it differently.

Gro unds was written in 1969 as a sort of party piece and was given to YorkeEdition in support of a drive to enlarge the repertoire for the instrument in a wide variety of styles. It was set on the syllabus of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for many years.

Francis Baines died.

SKU: BT.YE0028

'Opens a new perspective in solo bass playing'. Das Orcher. A virtuoso work with rhythmic complexities.

Grade: Advanced.

SKU: BT.9780713681635

ISBN 9780713681635. English.

Abr acadabra 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 howto 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 excitinggames 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 andfingerposition
• Activities and games to build and develop musicianship skills, with a structured introduction to reading notation

SKU: HL.49046907

ISBN 9783795723132. UPC: 196288082064. 9.0x12.0x0.372 inches.

This comprehensive volume contains well-known original works and transcriptions from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods by Bottesini, Capuzzi, Dragonetti, Eccles, Fauré, Koussevitzky, Lulier, Saint-Saëns, Simandl, Sperger and others. The repertoire is suitable for lessons, auditions, examinations and competitions. All pieces are printed in standard orchestral tuning; in addition, piano accompaniments for playing in solo tuning are available for download. Thus, the volume can be used flexibly in lessons at the upper classes of music schools as well as in studies.

SKU: AP.36-52740606

ISBN 9781429126328. UPC: 679360618028. English.

The third volume moves students toward more advanced playing techniques and literature. This text continues to develop playing skills found in Book 2 and advances the student through more rigorous and lengthy literature. Instrument-specific selections promote performance, reinforcing shifting skills, more advanced bowing techniques, and complex and multiple-meter pieces. The book contains solo literature that: enables the student to use higher positions with suggested fingerings; features accidentals that challenge left-hand intonation; utilizes more complex time signatures, multiple-meters, and challenging rhythmic patterns; and develops the bow stroke to perform more expressive dynamics and musicianship. Digital audio available.

These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.

SKU: HL.48024112

9.0x12.0 inches.

Preface: The emphasis of the present etudes is on systematic exercises for the left hand. The lower positions demanded above all in orchestral playing, and the accompanying physical effort required, are consciously employed here in many variants and offer outstanding practice material. At the beginning, a slow, constant tempo should be paramount, the tempo then being increased with theaid of a metronome. I recommend these etudes as daily exercises for double bass players of all proficiency levels. Klaus Trumpf (Professor emeritus at the Colleges of Music in Berlin, Saarbrucken, and Munich).