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Itzhak On Practicing – YouTube

Yazan: Jason | 12 December 2011 | No Comments
Categories: practicing, videos

Itzhak On Practicing – YouTube.

MP3 scales now online as well

Yazan: Jason | 05 August 2011 | No Comments
Categories: bass, practicing, student resources

I just uploaded a zipped directory of about 250 MB of MP3 scale practice tracks in one, two, and three octaves for major, natural, melodic, and harmonic scales.  You can find the RapidShare link below, and happy practicing! MP3 versions of scales for bass (250 MB)

More thoughts on auditioning

Yazan: Jason | 13 September 2010 | 2 Comments
Categories: bass, education, practicing

A comment came in last week about my audition advice for high school students post. It reads: Hello– Great website. Awesome to see so much info dedicated to the DB. Can you explain/expand on this point: Sectionalize your music and write down a plan – I always smile when I see a student come into [...]

A Student’s Guide to Learning a New Piece

Yazan: petertambroni | 31 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: learning, Peter Tambroni, practicing

Happy New Year readers! Peter Tambroni here, from MostlyBass.com. As the new year rolls around I’m beginning to plan for my school’s annual solo festival.  I’m always looking to improve the quality of my student’s playing as well as their learning and how they learn their solo. I make practice CDs for them with their [...]

Practicing an ornament

Yazan: petertambroni | 16 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Peter Tambroni, practicing

Hello readers, Peter Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com. This week I had a student working on a solo that had a somewhat complex ornament at a cadence. We worked on breaking it down and separating the components of it. I decided to write it up in Sibelius with the steps to learning it. Here’s a JPG [...]

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