Contents
Acknowledgments Preface "Taking the Fifth: How Tuning in Fifths Changed My Experience Playing the Double Bass" Introduction Introductory Exercises One-Octave Scales Beginning on open strings, across two strings Beginning in thumb position, across two strings Using open strings, across three strings Overview Exercise Three-Octave Scale Intermediate Exercises Movable One-Octave Scales Across two strings Across three strings One-Octave Arpeggios Beginning on open strings, across two strings, using extension fingering. Movable One-Octave Arpeggios Across three strings(including extension fingering) Practicing larger shifts Practicing various shifts Advancing Exercises Movable Two-Octave Scales Across four strings Two-octave scale patterns Two-Octave Scales in All Keys Two-octave major scales Two-octave natural minor scales Orchestral Excerpts Symphony No.1 - Mahler Symphony No.35 - Mozart The Firebird - Stravinsky Brandenburg Concerto No.3 - Bach Symphony No.8(unfinished) - Schubert Symphony No.88 - Hadyn Symphony No.31(Horn Signal) - Hadyn Pulcinella - Stravinsky/Pergolesi Symphony No.5 - Beethoven Symphony No.4 - Mahler The Creation of the World - Milhaud Bach Cello Suite Movements Suite No.1 for Violoncello Solo Menuetto Gigue Biography |