Janice Tucker Rhoda's phenomenally successful series, The ABCs of Bass, owes much of its success to the wonderful original material and to the sensitive arrangements of classical, folk, fiddle, rock 'n'roll, jazz and other popular melodies. After many years of teaching children and adults the author has developed a simple and enjoyable approach for studying the Double Bass. *The ABCs of Bass for the Absolute Beginner to Intermediate Student, Bass Book 1 covers 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Half Positions. There are 49 Melodies, Finger Graphs, Warm-ups, Scales, Easy Duets, a worksheet for note-recognition, a glossary and practice chart.
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*The ABCs of Bass for the Developing Student, Bass Book 2 covers the following Positions: ˝ pos, I, II, II ˝, III, III ˝, IV, V, V ˝ and VI. There are 57 Melodies, Finger Graphs, Warm-ups, Scales, Arpeggios, and a worksheet for note-recognition.
*Bass guitarists can switch to String Bass with the ease with The ABCs of Bass. Bass refers to Double Bass, Upright Bass or String Bass.
*The ABCs of Bass Easy Piano Accompaniment for Book 1 and 2 are also available.
*NEW! Companion Book:
Complete Technique for Double Bass, Book 1 contains studies and exercises for the advanced beginner to upper level student.
Janice Tucker Rhoda's biography is included in Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in the World. She has designed her path-breaking instruction series,
The ABCs of Strings, to encourage students of all ages to play the Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass. She has given clinics and courses at colleges worldwide and has served as an adjudicator for solo competitions. Her
Complete Technique books for Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass is a new series introduced in 2014.
Ms. Rhoda is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts where her teacher was well-known pedagogue, Eric Rosenblith, protégé of Carl Flesch. She also studied with such luminaries as Nancy Cirillo, Rudolf Kolisch, Yuri Mazurkevich, George Neikrug, Daniel Pinkham, Gunther Schuller, Roman Totenberg and Benjamin Zander.
Mindful of the idiosyncrasies of bass tuning and technique, Ms. Rhoda has brilliantly adapted her innovative approach to the bass.