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A Collection of Bass Resources
Double
Bass Audition Excerpts (5MB PDF)
for preparation of Double Bass Auditions compiled by Pat O'Hara.
Double Bass Audition Excerpts
(49MB ZipFile)
MP3's of the pieces used in the Double Bass Audition Excerpts.
Beginning Double
Bass Lessons
primarily designed for the Music Education Major, this article features
the basics concerning bass care and feeding, stance, bow holds, and several
introductory exercises.
Improv in the
Practice Room
using a troublesome passage from the first movement of the Koussevitsky
Bass Concerto as an example, classical bassists are encouraged to
experiment with a variety of improvisation techniques to make practice
time more efficient, engaging, and enjoyable. No prior knowledge
of improvisation is required.
Improv in the Classroom
with the new standards of education in place, music teachers are
now required to teach improvisation as a part of their curriculum.
This article offers an outline to stimulate ideas for teaching improvisation
through two ends; free-play or 'dive right in' and improvisation
developed out of already know works or 'start from here'.
Reinventing
Jazz Basics
new ideas for helping jazz bassists develop interesting and creative
bass
Jazz Bass Survey
a reference article giving short biographical sketches, selected
discographies, and bibliographies and twenty-one of the most influential
bassists in the history of jazz.
The Jazz Bass
Scaling Project
serves as an introduction to a unique method for constructing and
analyzing a performance profile of jazz bassists. Uses performances
of jazz greats Richard Davis and Ron Carter as examples.
Individual Track MP3s from the Double Bass Audition Excerpts:
Bach – Orchestral Suite
No. 2, Double
Bach – Orchestral
Suite No. 2, Badinerie
Bach – Violin Concerto
In E Major, Adagio, 2nd Movement
Beethoven – Symphony
No. 3 ‘Eroica’, 4th Movement
Beethoven – Symphony
No. 5, 2nd Movement
Beethoven – Symphony
No. 5, 3rd Movement (Scherzo)
Beethoven – Symphony
No. 5, 3rd Movement (Trio)
Beethoven – Symphony
No. 7, 1st Movement
Beethoven – Symphony
No. 9, Recitative
Berlioz – Symphonie
Fantastique, 4th Movement
Brahms – Symphony
No. 1, 1st Movement
Brahms – Symphony
No. 1, 4th Movement
Brahms – Symphony
No. 2, 1st Movement
Brahms – Symphony
No. 2, 2nd Movement
Brahms – Symphony
No. 2, 4th Movement
Haydn – Symphony
No. 31, 4th Movement (Solo)
Haydn – Symphony
No. 45, 4th Movement
Haydn – Symphony
No. 88, 1st Movement
Mahler – Symphony
No. 1, 3rd Movement
Mahler – Symphony
No. 2, 1st Movement
Mozart – Symphony
No. 35, 1st Movement
Mendelssohn – Symphony
No. 4, 1st Movement
Mendelssohn – Symphony
No. 4, 4th Movement
Mendelssohn – Symphony
No. 4, 4th Movement
Mozart – Symphony
No. 39, 1st Movement
Mozart – Symphony
No. 39, 4th Movement
Mozart – Symphony
No. 40, 1st Movement
Mozart – Symphony
No. 40, 4th Movement
Saint Saens – The
Elephant
Shostakovich – Symphony
No. 5, 1st Movement
Smetana – the Bartered
Bride Overture
Strauss – Don Juan
(A)
Stravinsky – Pulcinella
Suite, Vivo (Solo)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.
4, 1st Movement
Wagner – Die Meistersinger
Overture
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