Complete Technique for Double Bass, Book 1 - Softcover

Janice Tucker Rhoda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0825896983 ISBN 13: 9780825896989

Publisher: Carl Fischer Music Publisher, 2014

Synopsis

From the author of the popular ABCs of Strings method, Janice Tucker Rhoda's Complete Technique for Double Bass suits the advanced beginner to upper level student wishing to learn or improve their left-hand and right bow-arm skills. Starting in first position, and proceeding carefully through the higher positions, these method books use short studies and exercises to demonstrate specific technical ideas. 

520 Exercises include 58 Musical Studies in Positions 1 through 7. 

Technique Highlights:
*Positions 1 through 7
*Half Position
*Bass, tenor and treble clefs
*Two octave C Major Scale to thumb position
*Advanced chromatic scale
*Basic thumb position    
*Worksheets for note-reading
*Scales, arpeggios, broken thirds
*Improvisational melodies
*Double-Stops, chords, octaves
*Harmonics
*Arm Swing left-hand and
 bow-arm technique
*Bow balancing exercises
*Ballet of Shifting exercises
*Quick Finger exercises
*Finger Substitution exercises
*Left-hand pizzicato exercises
*Teaching points throughout

About this title

Review

"Short studies that nurture physical awareness...Focusing on quality rather than quantity of practice, Tucker Rhoda's short exercises are wonderful bite-size snippets demonstrating important technical ideas such as slurring, bowing, shifting, double-stops, and octave work." ~ Heather K. Scott, Strings Magazine October 2014 issue

Edition details

• Publisher: Carl Fischer Music Publisher
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0825896983
• ISBN 13: 9780825896989
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64