petertambroni

Peter Tambroni lives in suburban Chicago where he is an active double bassist and public school string teacher. He holds degrees from the Crane School of Music and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign. Peter currently teaches elementary and middle school strings for Mannheim School District 83 where he also maintains a bass club. He is a former faculty member of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and the Crane School of Music’s summer youth program. Peter has performed in orchestra sections and as a soloist in both New York State and Illinois. In the fall of 2000 he appeared on national television with the Bozo Super Sunday Show. He continues to perform around Chicago and its suburbs. He has been published several times in the international journal American String Teacher and on EnergyAddict.com, the website of best-selling author, Jon Gordon. His book, An Introduction to Double Bass Playing, is available at www.lulu.com/tambroni. Peter has a private studio of select students in Oak Park, IL. He also enjoys photography and writing as well as maintaining his websites, MostlyBass.com and PeterTambroni.com. His latest project is the Rhythm Ruler (http://www.rhythmruler.com); a teaching aid for rhythms and note values.

Quick Tips to Avoid Practice Burnout

Hi everyone, Peter Tambroni here for some quick tips to avoid practice burnout.
We all get to a point in our practicing where we stagnate, feel burned out, or are just plain sick of it! This is normal. As musicians, we tend to have the attitude that we “must practice many hours a day, every day or [...]

Quick Teaching Tip

Hi everyone, Pete Tambroni here for a quick teaching tip.
I find when I teach German bow, the frog often slips to the base of the thumb. This limits arm and wrist flexibility.
To help the student keep the frog near the base of the fingers, I tell them to rest it on their ‘handlebar callous’. [...]

Help! I don’t have time to practice!

Hello fellow bassists and educators, Peter Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com. Jason posted a great article recently about finding time to practice and auditions being a young persons game (check it out here).
But what if you ARE a young person (or not so young) and you still don’t have time to practice? What now? Well, first [...]

Thoughts on Composer Pronunciations

How do you pronounce Bach? Debussy? Schoenberg or Lutoslawski?
Unless you met the composer, it is probably slightly different than I or someone else says it.
We Americans tend to be very pretentious about our pronunciations. I’m all for accuracy and being correct but if you’re more worried about the aspirated ‘ch’ in Bach than in practicing [...]

Student & Teacher Resource

Hi everyone! Pete Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com. I wanted to let you all know that MostlyBass.com has been updated to include much more information for students and educators - both music teachers and classroom educators. I’ve been a music teacher and orchestra director since 1996 and wanted to share many of the things I’ve learned.
Jason [...]

Zen & Music Education

This is a post from double bassist and music educator Peter Tambroni. Peter is currently a string teacher in suburban Chicago where he teaches string lessons in grades 3 - 8 and conduct the middle school concert and chamber orchestras. He also leads an Irish ensemble and a bass quartet. Learn more about [...]