Pedagogical Resources for Double Bassists


In addition to featuring nearly 100 interviews with seasoned professional bassists on Contrabass Conversations, we have also released several innovative pedagogical resources which have proven to be quite popular. These types of projects are what makes this kind of content distribution (over the Internet, free of charge, accessible to anyone worldwide) extremely exciting and useful:
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Orchestral Audition Audio Study Guides

Listen to and follow along with double bassist John Grillo as he takes listeners through the standard orchestral audition repertoire for the double bass. Includes both audio double bass excerpts and dialogue.

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Opera Audition Audio Study Guides

Listen to and follow along with double bassist John Grillo as he takes listeners through the standard opera audition repertoire for the double bass. Includes both audio double bass excerpts and dialogue.

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Video Lessons with Andy Anderson and Hans Sturm

Oboist Darlene Marshall has done a fantastic job of transcribing Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist Andy Anderson’s virtual lessons, and you can check them out here. These virtual lesson sets are a great way to learn more about the basics, stance, bow hold, left hand positioning, spiccato, crab technique, pivoting, and much, much more!

Remember, you can always subscribe to Contrabass Conversations (free!) and get all of these resources automatically downloaded on a weekly basis.

August 1, 2008 · Filed Under bass, education, student resources

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