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Double Bass Bille Method - Confused about which book to start with

Steve Freides

Former Mannes College Theory Faculty
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Dec 11, 2007
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I'd like to get a beginning book of the Bille method, which I don't know at all. There are a lot of volumes and numbers - not sure which is a subset of which.

If someone could give me a publisher's number, ISBN number, exact title, etc., or just an overview of the number/volume business, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

-S-
 
This is the first book:

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I have used this book, the third book in the first volume ER263, and the 18 studies.

I can't speak for the others in the collection, but I find these are more musical than the Simandl methods, and they get you to work in all tonalities quite a bit.