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
"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