Double Bass MP3 Sonatas, Concertos, and Solos – Practice Tracks and Downloads
About six years ago, I sat down in front of Finale and made a whole bunch of MP3 practice tracks for various pieces I was either working on at the time or using in my bass lessons. I liked the “pitch plus rhythm” aspect of practicing in this way, and while I could always do this sort of thing wither by playing MIDI files directly or (with much more flexibility) use something like Finale, I really wanted to be able to load these tracks on my iPod (probably an iPod Video at the time… how times have changed) and therefore not be dependent on lugging my computer around to use for my own practice or for lessons.
I ended up loading them into my iPod as a playlist and then just carrying around a couple of speakers. This was a good practice and lesson setup. I would also give these tracks to students and tell them to load them up in similar fashion, and to practice with one earbud in and one earbud out.
Soon after starting this blog, I thought that it would be a good thing to put these files out on the web, but I was using Blogger at the time and the size of the files (225 MB, plus another 250 MB of scale files) was prohibitive. Fortunately, a service called Odeo was around and worked kind of like YouTube for audio. It allowed for direct downloading or playing online. I spent a lot of time one summer uploading and correctly tagging all those files.
A word of caution whenever you’re looking to store something online: if it’s a free service, don’t expect it to be a long-term solution! That was the case with Odeo, which disappeared a few years ago (incidentally, the guy who started it had initially started Blogger, which was later bought by Google, and after Odeo he went on to found a little company known as Twitter), and I haven’t had the time/energy/patience to try to figure out a way to put it up online again.
I have decided to just dump them all as big zipped archives on RapidShare. Feel free to use them as you like:
- Beethoven 5 mvt 3
- Beethoven 9 recit
- Brahms mvt 2
- Ein Seldenleben #9, 16, 60, 66, 77
- Mozart 39 mvt 1 & 4
- Mozart 40 mvt 1 & 4
- Bach Suite 3 Gigue
- Capuzzi Concerto mvt 1, 2, 3
- Dittersdorf Concerto mvt 1, 2, 3
- Dragonetti Concerto mvt 1, 3
- Eccles Sonata mvt 1, 2
- Marcello G major mvt 1, 2
05 July 2009, 5:21 pm
that’s perfect! your blog is the best!
congratulations for ur job, and thanks so much for providing these material.
19 January 2010, 2:39 pm
Jason, I didn’t know you had this stuff up till just now. You should remind people of it in a new post or something.
08 February 2010, 11:21 am
Can’t seem to access any of the materials on this page;
http://doublebassblog.org/2006/11/double-bass-mp3-sonatas-concertos-and.html
Are you perhaps in transition to a new server?
Thanks so much for the Andy Anderson videos.
regards,
Karl
08 March 2010, 6:56 pm
I can’t access any of this either. It looks like a great resource! Would love to see it working
Austin
09 March 2010, 5:53 pm
Welcome to the world of blogging over many years & through many content systems. The system I originally used for this page kicked the bucket a couple of years ago. It took me about 10 hours to put all this stuff together back in 2006, and I don’t have the time to rejigger it now. Someday I will, but I don’t see having the time real soon.
15 October 2010, 11:07 am
Why no work?
13 February 2011, 5:16 pm
please fix these links! we need it A LOT!
this is the best bass blog ever, by the way.
05 May 2011, 2:48 pm
hello, i would like to download these mp3, please try to fixed
01 August 2011, 8:16 am
[...] This material is now available online here. [...]
01 August 2011, 8:17 am
[...] Update–this content is now back online here. [...]
29 August 2011, 10:39 am
dear jason, thanks for your site. it’s a wealth of information. i’m glad i found my way to it.
ken