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Double Bass Jazz Book for double bass
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- Mar 1, 2002
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Good luck, Ken
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- Mar 1, 2002
- 4,237
- 52
- 74
- Disclosures
- Owner: Ken Smith Basses, Ltd.
Read all the Music you can find. The more types of situations you play in, like it or not, the better you will get !!
Practice much as possible with a good Metronome. Stat slowly so you can play all the notes then bring it up to tempo little by little. Be VERY Patient with your self. Do not stop practicing each session until you are in pain or have to leave the house.
Use the Simandl Book. It will help you as the melodic format is close to simple Jazz playing. Do not advance in the exercises befor you can play the earlier ones fairly well. This goes for both books. Always warm up with scales using the BOW and with the Simandl Book b4 going to the Ray Brown Book. Always start with the easier exercises in Ray's book and work your way up.
Try to practice from 1-2 hours each time. 15-30 min. practices are also good if you r on the run. Ten 15-minute sessions a day as you pass by your Bass, is better that not practicing at all.
Practice, listen and then practice. Music is a way of life, make some good habits of it !
Now........ I'm off to the gig.......
Practice much as possible with a good Metronome. Stat slowly so you can play all the notes then bring it up to tempo little by little. Be VERY Patient with your self. Do not stop practicing each session until you are in pain or have to leave the house.
Use the Simandl Book. It will help you as the melodic format is close to simple Jazz playing. Do not advance in the exercises befor you can play the earlier ones fairly well. This goes for both books. Always warm up with scales using the BOW and with the Simandl Book b4 going to the Ray Brown Book. Always start with the easier exercises in Ray's book and work your way up.
Try to practice from 1-2 hours each time. 15-30 min. practices are also good if you r on the run. Ten 15-minute sessions a day as you pass by your Bass, is better that not practicing at all.
Practice, listen and then practice. Music is a way of life, make some good habits of it !
Now........ I'm off to the gig.......
Aletheobass said:help: if anyone can give advice on how to sight read jazz and stuff it'll be one of the nicest things anyone would have done for me!! (keep in mind this is a highschool jazz band). thanx already!
Alan Raph-Dance Band Reading and Interpretation
..Sam Fox Publishing Co. * (treble and bass clef books)
available through Warner Bros Music 15800 NW 48 Ave, Miami FL 33014 (800)327-7643...
According to Raph's website, it's still available.
You will probably have to work through it with a teacher and it helps if your working through it with an ensemble. It teaches you how to read and interpret swing rhythms. We used it at the Los Angeles Jazz Workshop back in the 80s.
Maestro,
I played in the "A" band at the Los Angeles Jazz Workshop for a couple years. I also was a judge and did clinics at local college and high school jazz festivals. Every once in awhile, if there were enough students, Bill would have a reading class. The Raph book is tough. If you could read through that, you could read just about anything.
Bill knew most of the writers in the area so he would trade rehearsal space for charts. He must have ended up with about a thousand big band charts.
Sometimes we would proof read charts like for Bob Florence before he took them to the Tonight Show band. The "A" band could read!
Bill took the job as Director of Jazz Studies at San Diego State. He commuted for a couple years but it finally became too much, so he closed the workshop in the late 80s. He is still at San Diego, as far as I know.
I played in the "A" band at the Los Angeles Jazz Workshop for a couple years. I also was a judge and did clinics at local college and high school jazz festivals. Every once in awhile, if there were enough students, Bill would have a reading class. The Raph book is tough. If you could read through that, you could read just about anything.
Bill knew most of the writers in the area so he would trade rehearsal space for charts. He must have ended up with about a thousand big band charts.
Sometimes we would proof read charts like for Bob Florence before he took them to the Tonight Show band. The "A" band could read!
Bill took the job as Director of Jazz Studies at San Diego State. He commuted for a couple years but it finally became too much, so he closed the workshop in the late 80s. He is still at San Diego, as far as I know.
I think the Raph book had a red and white cover. I've got mine around here somewhere.
That was a fun band to play with. The only problem was that the band was so intimidating, it was hard to get a sub. Nobody with any reputation in LA was willing to put it on the line. A few well known players in the area at that time came in and stepped on their you know what.
That trumpet section would go through a case of beer each rehearsal.
At one time we had Frank Sinatra's trumpet player, and one of Maynard Ferguson's trumpet players who was scolded by Maynard for playing higher than him. Musicians would sort of come in and out depending on their work schedules.
I really got spoiled playing with that band.
That was a fun band to play with. The only problem was that the band was so intimidating, it was hard to get a sub. Nobody with any reputation in LA was willing to put it on the line. A few well known players in the area at that time came in and stepped on their you know what.
That trumpet section would go through a case of beer each rehearsal.
At one time we had Frank Sinatra's trumpet player, and one of Maynard Ferguson's trumpet players who was scolded by Maynard for playing higher than him. Musicians would sort of come in and out depending on their work schedules.
I really got spoiled playing with that band.
Maestro said:
I don't think he wrote any books. There were some handouts for some of the classes.
He started out partnered with Dick Grove, but they had a falling out. Dick Grove wrote several books and as I recall some were very good. Grove went on to start his music school and Bill started the workshop. I don't remember what it was about but from Bill's perspective, it was a serious "he done me wrong" scenario.
When I did graduate work at the University of Northern Colorado, they had an extensive music publishing operation. Here is the address:
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Chuck Sher has music also.
http://www.shermusic.com/
There is also a huge music store in SF. I don't recall their name. Anybody?
Hi, I realize your question is two years old now, so maybe you've found what you need. If not, don't buy any books. Buy "We Get Requests" by the Oscar Peterson Trio and "This One's For Blanton", both CD's feature Ray Brown. Transcribe every note he plays, you'll be well on your way. That's how jazz greats learned-records, not books.maladjusted said:
thumpybones said:
Do you or anybody else have any other suggestions of recordings to be transcribed? I'm looking into transcribing some of the solo material off Miles' Prestige recordings and this certainly is a good addition to that, too.
