what to practise in 3 hours

[33degrees]

i am practising daily on double bass for 3 hours.
i have been playing for a few years but got frustrated with 'winging ' it all the time so now its time for some serious study!
at the moment i'm doing major keys up every string vertically and horizontilly (at least 2 octaves). i just started practising my dominant and minor 2 chords in the same manner.
next i will tackle harmonic minor with the minor flat 5 and Dominant flat 9 again in the same manner.
i have transcribed a few chambers solos, wihich i practise and am starting on some ray brown lines.
what do you think, anything i left out? im going to buy a bow next week!

[Bruce Jackson]

Get a decent bow, balanced and straight. Do a lot of slow bow work with a metronome. The extended notes will make your fingers stronger by holding the string down longer. It sounds like you need a teacher to help you with some exercises. It will really pay off to find yourself a good teacher.
Good luck!

[33degrees]

thanks for the advice,
another question: do you have different fingering to play the same scale, for example running an A major scale up the G-string, i have found 2 ways of fingering it depending whether or not im going to go past the octave or come back down.is that correct?
p.S. im broke at the moment so i cant afford a teacher alhough im going out to watch a lot of upright players as i live in Paris.

[Steve Killingsworth]

Originally Posted by 33degrees

. . . do you have different fingering to play the same scale . .

I think I once read that Rabbath has over 200 ways of playing each scale.

[godoze]

I dug out some of my college books and amongst them was a book of etudes in which i had written my daily morning regimen:

7am-8am bowing
8am-9am scales
9am -10am etudes, excersizes, any pieces that need to be learned.

[33degrees]

7am-8am bowing
8am-9am scales
9am -10am etudes, excersizes, any pieces that need to be learned

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yea thats great! but at the moment i am spending 3 hours on scales and even that isnt enough, i think i need 6 hours a day just for scales!

[Tbeers]

Originally Posted by 33degrees

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yea thats great! but at the moment i am spending 3 hours on scales and even that isnt enough, i think i need 6 hours a day just for scales!

For you right now that may be the best thing to focus on, but you'll find that your practicing needs change drastically over time. It seems as though you have a good idea of what you want to be working on, so just keep at it. A teacher can be very helpful, as well...