Learn the techniques that every truly great bass player needs to know! From basic slapping and popping to machine-gun riffing, this programme has something for bass players at every level. The one-on-one lessons with bassist/instructor Chris McCarvill show you how to apply the techniques popularised by Marcus Miller, Larry Graham and Louis Johnson. You'll learn the four elements of Slap and Pop as…

American composer-bassist Armand Russell has created a wealth of music for double bass over the past fifty years and more recently has arranged a tasteful number of works for the instrument. This four movement sonata (Adagio Allegro Largo Presto) by Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) offers a new and accessible transcription for the good intermediate bassist who is confident in low thumb posit…

This piece was written in 1992 and its rhythms are derived from folk music. It's not easy but bassists will have fun learning it. Both players play from the same score so keeping together by seeing the other player's part is made easier. Julian Dale was born in 1954 and works as a freelance Bass player and composer in Bristol.

Dragonetti's Concerto in C major is a charming and accessible three-movement work for the good intermediate bassist. The first movement is longer than the other two movements combined and is similar to Cimador's Concerto in G major in terms of structure and level of difficulty. This new edition for double bass and piano is in orchestral tuning and includes two double bass parts - one edited and co…

Double Trouble was composed in 2006 as part of Recital Music's One Minute Wonders project - for pieces lasting exactly one minute. It was premiered by Sophie Heyes (double bass) accompanied by the composer on 18 October of that year. Double Trouble is adapted from a song from the musical of Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters and the rhythm of the famous verse 'Hubble Bubble Toil and Trouble' can…

A son entrée au collège, Jean-Baptiste Poclin apprend qu'il porte, à quelques lettres près, le nom de Molière. Cette révélation ainsi que la découverte du Théâtre de Molière changeront son regard sur les autres, bouleverseront ses habitudes, et feront réfléchir Monsieur Poclin père, homme sec et rigide, que préoccupe uniquement le chiffre d'affaire de son usine de chaussettes. Ayant ces dernières …

Edition : Paris, l'Auteur, Hurel, Bonneüil, Foucault, 1692Les parties de dessus de ces pièces en trio peuvent être jouées par des flûtes traversières ou des flûtes à bec, des violons, des dessus de viole ou des hautbois. La préface donne le catalogue des oeuvres de Marin Marais et une analyse de l'agrémentation des pièces en trio. - Présentation de :Jean Saint-Arroman :L'agrémentation des pièces e…

Moving On Again! was written in 2007 for the young English bassist Eloise Riddell. Commissioned by her family the suite of three pieces uses a range of jazz and popular styles to create new and exciting music for the young progressing bassist who is confident in thumb position. Blues with a Swing is lively and rhythmic with effective syncopations to move the music swiftly along. The piece begins…

Quartet for Doublebasses

Kontrabassschule B1Ed Double Bass