The celebrated Principal Bassist of the New York Philharmonic offers a bass-fingering methodology that reflects a lifetime of experience as both a teacher and a performer in this comprehensive book. His teaching approach in The School of Agility focuses on developing fingerings that will improve rhythm, intonation and ease of fingerboard movement. Highlights include: A variety of fingerings that allow individual players to find those most suitable for their level and style of playing. - Fingerings that are appropriate to specific playing situations - Techniques for producing a clean, clear low frequency sound. Simply put, The School of Agility will provide the modern string bass player with an innovative and effective approach to mastering the instrument.
- Vendor:
- Fischer Presser
- Composer:
- Eugene Levinson
- Format:
- Methods And Studies
- ISBN:
- 9780825846991.0
- Instrumentation:
- Double Bass
- Pages:
- 256.0
- Scoring:
- Double Bass
- Subtitle:
- A Technical Method of the Scale System for String Bass
- UPC:
- 798408046996.0
- Copyright Year:
- 2002
- Table of Contents:
- Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements, Biography, How to Use This Book, Key to Symbols, E Major, E Harmonic Minor, E Melodic Minor, E Natural Minor, E Arpeggios, F Major, F Harmonic Minor, F Melodic Minor, F Natural Minor, F Arpeggios, F-sharp Major, F