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A Contemporary Concept of Bowing Technique for the Double Bass (CONTREBASSE)
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- 144 pages- Size: 12" x 9"
- Author: Frederick Zimmerman
- ISBN: 793518229
- Through many helpful exercises and patterns, this book teaches double bassists techniques to help them master the fingerings and bowing patterns needed to play this instrument
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Discussed in Tips for practising fast bowings in the TalkBass community
jj.833
With a teacher, you will save hundreds of hours of wrongly aimed practising. I'm mostly self learned so I know it's true. However, if you want a good book, you might try to look for Miloslav Gajdos: Bowing excersises, 1992. I've found this so check it out. I'm not sure whether the book ever was officially published, but ... ... more
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