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12-03-2006, 02:20 PM
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Hi,
I've gone a bit tired of trying to learn modern music basslines and i want to kill a few birds with one stone (dexterity, sight reading and theory basically!).
I know that most classical pieces played on basses are usually written for cellos or non-bass guitar instruments.
I'd be really grateful if anyone could recommend some good beginner/intermediate classical music pieces that are suitable for playing on an acoustic bass.
I'm ashamed to admit that i only really know the 1st movement of the Moonlight sonata because i saw Stu - the greatest - Hamm playing it.  But i want to learn!
Thanks in advance!
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12-03-2006, 06:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: NH | | | The Prelude by Bach is a good one, its for Cello and you can find it online for free, do a google. |
12-03-2006, 07:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New Zealand | | The Well Tempered Clavier - JS Bach |
12-03-2006, 07:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Mass | | | i'm learning bourree by bach for my college audition. its played with 2 basses, but i'm playing both parts at the same time on 1 bass. theres a book my teach has thats got a lot of classical basslines, i'll get you the name of it. |
12-03-2006, 07:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Hmmm.... If you go to the music section in your local bookstore, you may find some "easy" Bach books. Some of these books make you think that the music inside is "easy"; however, it can be much more advanced than it looks. Heck, the Bach cello suites look easy on paper, but they are the opposite of easy. People spend their entire lives improving the performance of those cello suites.
I know, I'm rambling. Sorry.
Get yourself a nice beginner "classical" etude book. Ask they guy/girl at the counter for some easy bass clef music in a "classical" style. Easy bass, cello, or trombone music would work just fine.
Good luck.
Joe
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12-03-2006, 10:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ottawa, ON | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bloodline462  i'm learning bourree by bach for my college audition. its played with 2 basses, but i'm playing both parts at the same time on 1 bass. theres a book my teach has thats got a lot of classical basslines, i'll get you the name of it. | Saying I'm learning "bouree by bach", is pretty much like saying, "I'm learning that dancy funk tune by Prince". |
12-04-2006, 02:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota | | Most baroque period sonatas would be suitable for BG, considering that they tend to be within a three octave range. Also, they have movements that contrast - speed, phrasing, note displacement, etc. I don't see anything wrong with playing the stuff transcribed/written for the Double Bass - just don't pay attention to the fingerings and bowings.
Here is a good example of what I mean - http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/a/item...5&item=3147254
Also, you could look at some Sonatas by Marcello, Telemann, Corelli, Handel, etc.
Keep in mind, This isn't easy stuff - no TABs, and its easy to develop bad habits if you don't have well-cultivated technique.
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12-04-2006, 11:46 PM
| | I admit it, I'm a "user" | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Israel | | Hi there.
I bought this book "J.S. Bach for Bass" and it's very good, It includes a CD of the auther preforming all the nusical parts (so even if you are not familier with all the parts you can still how they should be sound like).
Plus it has a TAB underneath the notes if you are not much of a notes reader guy. LINK
Cheers
Adisu.
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12-05-2006, 11:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Austin, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jadesmar Saying I'm learning "bouree by bach", is pretty much like saying, "I'm learning that dancy funk tune by Prince". |
Good one. 
To the original poster, pick up an etude book for double bass. Here are some suggestions:
Simandl New Method Volume 1
Rabbath New Technique for the Double Bass Vol. 1-3
Simandl 30 Studies
Sturm 110 Studies
Lee 12 Studies
George Vance Double Bass Method
You could also pick up some "easy" solo material:
Vivaldi Six Sonatas for Double Bass (originally for cello, try the Bb major and A minor) Edited by Lucas Drew
Solos for the Double Bass (edited by Zimmerman, I thinks)
The Bach cello suites are EXTREMELY virtuosic. Be careful with them.
With any of the above material there are lots of bowings (phrasings) and fingerings that don't always work for BG. You would have to be creative. However, with regards to fingerings, I teach the DB fingering method, found in the Simandl book, for BG. 
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12-05-2006, 10:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ottawa, ON | | | Zimmerman also edited a
Findeisen - 25 Technical studies - Opus 14
Which is kind of virtuosic and certainly a step up from Lee, but, Technical studies are meant to be technical and.. well.. studied.
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12-05-2006, 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Kid The Well Tempered Clavier - JS Bach | Yea. all 24 parts, in all keys.
He said good beginner/intermediate. 
Anyways, a lot of the Bach Preludes are great to play.
Cmajor BWV 939
Gmajor I don't' remember. This one though. |
12-06-2006, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark Wilson | This is what I was talking about when I mentioned virtuosity. That performance was a very good interpretation. It looks easy but it isn't. I don't think that these pieces are beginner/intermediate. And remember, to be played correctly on the bass they need to be brought up one octave.
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12-06-2006, 04:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: London, UK | | | anything cello really, same register, great fingering patterns (I've just started learning some of Bachs cello suite, I only have a 4 string though, so some are hard, or impossible to play (what with a cello having a low C as the bottom string.)
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12-06-2006, 05:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Austin, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by joebingo anything cello really, same register, great fingering patterns (I've just started learning some of Bachs cello suite, I only have a 4 string though, so some are hard, or impossible to play (what with a cello having a low C as the bottom string.) |
They are all possible to play on bass. However, Suite 3 is typically transposed to G Major. Like I said, to perform them properly you have to bring them up an octave.
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12-07-2006, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by cossie Hi,
I've gone a bit tired of trying to learn modern music basslines and i want to kill a few birds with one stone (dexterity, sight reading and theory basically!).
| Especially for dexterity. Kreutzer Violin Etude No.2.
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12-07-2006, 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by fcleff They are all possible to play on bass. However, Suite 3 is typically transposed to G Major. Like I said, to perform them properly you have to bring them up an octave. | Bring them up an octave and remember for 22-fretters, the F# harmonic on the D-string can cover for a 23rd fret and the 2nd octave G-harmonic can cover for a 24th. |
12-07-2006, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by jadesmar Bring them up an octave and remember for 22-fretters, the F# harmonic on the D-string can cover for a 23rd fret and the 2nd octave G-harmonic can cover for a 24th. | Thank you, kind sir. I mistakenly assume that, because I play 24 fret scale, everyone else does too.  Although I (try and) play these suites on my DB and not my BG.
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