Adapting Fingering and Bowing Permutations for Practicing
If At First You Don’t Succeed recently posted about a comment from bass blog contributor Benjy detailing his experiences studying the Rabbath technique. There is a lot similarity between Rabbath’s scale and arpeggio practice methodology and that of Ivan Galamian, and this post details a cellist’s perspective on this sort of practicing. It’s always [...]
Ben Torrey blogs about classical music for the electric bass
I’ve been exchanging some great e-mails recently with electric bassist Ben Torrey, who blogs about and performs classical music for the electric bass (although he also plays upright as well). Yes, that’s right–a bass blog specializing in classical music for electric bass. How cool!
Hans Sturm on mental aspects of double bass playing - virtual lesson part 5
International Society of Bassists President and Ball State University Bass Professor Hans Sturm and I got together recently and filmed a chat about the Rabbath left hand position technique. This final segment of our chat covers more general mental approaches to practicing the double bass.
If you’d like to watch the complete series, you can do [...]
Insightful Rabbath technique comment from Benjy
Bass blog contributor Benjy wrote a wonderful comment after viewing the Hans Sturm videos about the Rabbath technique that we’ve been posting here. Since comment can quickly disappear under the radar here (due to the daily avalanche of new content), I thought that it would be a good idea to take a moment and [...]
