String Bass Methods and Studies

Learn the art of jazz bass. Whether you are new to playing jazz or wish to hone your skills, and whether you play acoustic or electric bass, this book will help you expand your basic technique to create

This volume suits the advanced beginner to the upper-level student wishing to learn or improve skills starting in first position and proceeding methodically through higher positions as well as half position

Highly-esteemed pedagogue and virtuoso Orin O'Brien offers a lifetime of insight in her acclaimed String-Bass Notebook: Ideas, Tips and Pointers for the Complete Professional. This volume draws together

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

This revised edition marks over three decades in publication as "the standard" in bass method books. Through the years since this book was first published, Rufus felt that a major revision was needed. The

Based on the violin studies of Franz Wohlfahrt, the goal of this never-before-seen collection is to learn to make a wide variety of tonal colors and shapes with music and to teach and reinforce bowing

This third installment provides bass students and performers a comprehensive review of bow strokes. Adapted from Otakar Sevcik's Op. 3 for violin, McCormick challenges bassists to carefully examine the way

My First Simandl preserves the original intent and musical/educational objectives that Franz Simandl set forth in his etude books New Method for the Double Bass, Vol. 1 and Thirty

This 1984 edition of the highly acclaimed method features extensive editorial notes by Lucas Drew, in both English and Japanese. An indispensable resource for students of the bass.

This systematized set of worksheets supplements any elementary class or private method. It is designed to help the student gain a better understanding of the problems of fingering and reading music while

This series makes excellent use of well-known folk songs. It uses first through fourth position, and extensive use of tunes with larger intervals such as fourths and fifths, to present a comprehensive

Learn the tricks and technique of playing Rockabilly Bass from one of the world's foremost masters, Johnny Hatton. In this book, along with video lessons online, he will teach you: The Snap, The Slap, Half

Here is a chance to enter the new world of playing today's music while learning to express your own musical creativity through improvisation. Don't be afraid! Rockin' Strings is going to teach you

A sting curriculum designed with the modern student in mind! Through colorful and thorough explanations, fun and modern accompaniment tracks, and achievable-by-everyone lessons, students will have a blast