Etude Books?

[blankstare77]

I'm a firm believer in etudes, and I'd like to know what sort of book is big, fat, long, and starts very simple but morphs into a complex book?

[DocBop]

Check other bass clef instruments. I think JJ Johnson did a book of Jazz Trombone studies. Trombone stuff usually lays well on bass. Then double-bass should have a lot. One of the guys here on TB (sorry I'm terrible with names) transposed a bunch of violin etudes for bass.

[fcleff]

Simandl - New Method Vol. I and II
Simandl - 30 Studies
Storch/Hrabe - 57 Studies
Sturm - 110 Studies
Charles Hoag - The New Book of Scales
Rabbath - New Method for the Double Bass Vols. I, II, and III

Simandl, Storch/Hrabe, and Sturm are pretty old while Hoag and Rabbath are more contemporary. My favorite is the Rabbath. These are all double bass methods but I have used them on electric bass as well. You will have to adjust for bowings. Many of the fingerings will stay the same. This should keep you occupied for the next 20 years or so.

[Otso]

Here are the Kreutzer Etudes DocBop was talking about:

Etude no.2
Etude no.3
Etude no.4
Etude no.5
Etude no. 7

Etude no.14
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4

Etude no. 16

Page 1.
Page 2

And incase those are not enough here's Rahmaninoff's Polka Italienne.

Might keep you busy for a while.

[zeppelinfreak]

Id reccomend two tuba books that I use a lot on bass.

The H.W. Tyrell Advanced Bb Studies (not the exact name, something like that)

And the Arban Book.

The Arban book is interesting because it was originally the absolute trumpet book, then the absolute brass book, and now its become the absolute music book. It will not only take you through etudes, but all kinds of excersises in any key you can think of. Id highly reccommend the Arban book to anyone interested in advancing musically.