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Orchestral Technique [DB] Exploring technique on the "classical" double bass, from Beethoven to Bottesini


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Old 12-24-2008, 01:03 PM
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Classical etudes for fretless electric?

I'm an accomplished cellist and happy owner of a new fretless bass guitar. I could use suggestions for good classical bass etudes that would be helpful on a fretless electric. We cellists are familiar with Popper, Piatti, Duport, Franchomme and Servais. What's the bass equivalent?

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I guess Simandl is the standard, but there are many more by Nanny and others.
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Old 12-24-2008, 01:27 PM
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60 Melodic Etudes by John Patitucci is a nice place to start. I have also found that many of the Dotzauer execrises for cello work great on 5 and 6 string bass.
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Kreutzer might not be a bad choice either.
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Old 12-25-2008, 02:41 PM
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if your new to bass, i'd reccomend smandl's 30 etudes book. he's got some more difficult books out too
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