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Archive for the 'technique' Category

Thumb position question

Yazan: Jason | 15 March 2010 | 6 Comments
Categories: bass, technique

Here’s a question from an overseas reader–feel free to chime in with some advice in the comments to this post: I’m not really sure what is the right way, to avoid injuries and other stuff, how to hold the bass in thumb position. My teacher says holding the neck on your shoulder blade can cause [...]

Hans Jensen master class

Yazan: Jason | 17 December 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: education, technique, videos

The following video features Northwestern University cello professor Hans Jensen giving a master class to the Midwest Young Artists cellists. Hans is an outstanding cello teacher, and most of what he says applies to all string players. Check out WMYA.FM, the weekly podcast from Midwest Young Artists, for more great videos like this! Video Download [...]

Quick Teaching Tip – Vibrato

Yazan: petertambroni | 25 November 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: education, Peter Tambroni, technique

Pete Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com for a quick tip on teaching vibrato. Students will often do some weird wrist bending when first learning vibrato. Tell them to start the vibrato from their elbow and just think of rotating the two forearm bones (radius & ulna). Try it in the air first and then add it [...]

Quick Teaching Tip

Yazan: petertambroni | 22 November 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: education, Peter Tambroni, technique

Hello fellow bassists and educators, Peter Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com. Having problems getting your students to keep their left fingers curved? Try telling them to imagine they are holding a soda can! Have them hold an imaginary can in the air – it’s almost always a perfect bass hand – and then transfer this to [...]

François Rabbath discusses differences in French and German bows

Yazan: Jason | 16 October 2008 | 3 Comments
Categories: bass videos, technique

My double bass colleague Benjy (who has contributed many posts to this blog in the past) sent me a link to the following video of François Rabbath discussing the differences between French and German bow technique at a Berlin master class. Very interesting. This video also has a snippet of Rabbath playing some jazz. Folks [...]