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Double Bass Thumb Position Technique
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Francesco Petracchi: Simplified Higher Technique is excellent for teaching the spacing of all the notes in the upper register.
It is published by Yorke Editions.
It is published by Yorke Editions.
Next time you're in the City I can give you an hour or so rundown that will straighten you out for good.
Eugene Levinson's School of agility is great, it offers many diffrent techniques of scales and arpeggios in 3 octaves. Excellent for thumb position.
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I have also stated that in another thread not long ago that Simandl Book I has great progressive exercises and would be good for Thumb position up the octave. Any similar book with scales or etudes is also good. Application is a great teacher.
Ray, next time I am at Biases maybe you can come by and straighten me out for good as well...lol
Ray, next time I am at Biases maybe you can come by and straighten me out for good as well...lol
I'm all into it! I've been working really hard at systemizing my fingering method of the last number of years and would love the feedback from as many folks as I can get.
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That looks like a teenager.. Ray's profile says he is 40 years old. Is the Pic old or the dates and resume wrong?
Thanks everyone for your responses. For starters, I'm going to dust off my Simandl this weekend and give some of the exercises a shot at an octave higher.
I'll check into some of the other references.
Regards,
George
I'll check into some of the other references.
Regards,
George
.Nope. That's me last summer. Young-looking runs in the family. My grandfather at 75 looked to be in his mid 50's.KSB - Ken Smith said:
What really bites my ass is when 20-somethings mistake my age and talk down to me. What cracks me up, though, is when the old guys try to figure out how a 27 year old punk knows all those tunes
I just started lessons on the DB and my instructor uses Simandl and Goerge Vance. So far, just in one lessons and a few pages of the Vance book, I've learned a ton. Havn't gotten to the thumb posistion part of the book yet though.
The Simandl "New Method For The Double Bass" is divided into Books I (Orange) and Book II (White). Book II starts with "Part VI: The Thumb Position".
But then, I'm sure you all knew that already
- Wil
But then, I'm sure you all knew that already
- Wil
I'd also recommend Ludwig Streicher's "My Way of Playing the Double Bass" volume 4. Great exercises!
Will,
My Simandl Book One is blue. But then again I bought it when I was in 10th grade in high school in 1971!!
Yikes!!!!
Regards,
George
My Simandl Book One is blue. But then again I bought it when I was in 10th grade in high school in 1971!!
Yikes!!!!
Regards,
George
Mmm - mine's ©Carl Fischer 1984
Your's sounds like a first edition - you might want to hang on to it, it could be valuable
- Wil
- Wil
