I disagree. Just my opinion. What you could do to extend these exercises further—into double bass drum double strokes, would be to start over on exercise 1, and add a double stroke on the weak foot on the same part of the next quarter note which would look something like exercises 5- 8 , and then when you get to exercises 5- 8, you would be playing displacing alternating double strokes.
The final exercise, 9, could then be played as. When not playing I just rest my foot on the pedal- duh! Interesting article. I am familiar with this bass drum technique I remember first trying it years ago and found it somewhat awkward at first but with time it becomes more fluid and useful.
As always it just takes practice to make it work. Thanks Mark!! Just downloaded these. Thanks for all you do to help everyone in their drumming adventure. I have lot to work on. Hi Ronnie! Regards, Mark F. The Mechanics in Words Let me describe the mechanics in more detail. Comments, sharing and discussion are welcomed. Author Recent Posts.
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Further reading and resources: Doubke for a really great article. I bought his Nouville Technique volumes when I was in high school, and although I did not agree with ssimandl of the fundamental concepts I read, I knew there was a huge amount of value in these texts.
All this came to fruition when in Baas switched to 5ths tuning, and everything fell into place. There was an error submitting your subscription. This combination has ultimately been the most successful comprehensive double bass pedagogical sequence for me—Vance for beginners and intermediate students, and Simandl, ochestral excerpts, and the traditional double bass repertoire Koussevitzky, Dittersdorf, Bottesini for advanced students.
The Vance Progressive Repertoire method actually dovetails neatly into the world of traditional double bass pedagogical repertoire, since the last piece introduced in Book 3 is the Dragonetti Concerto.
Now check your email to confirm your subscription. Although the book was Rabbath technique through and through Rabbath himself plays on the accompanying CDs I already started to see the possibilities of this method.
With the imminent si,andl of the fourth volume of his method I think some of this will be cleared up. Thanks for the comparison, I never realized how lucky I was to have parents that were so progressive by putting me in classes with George.
I have started students both ways, and the Simandl students leave their first lesson with a grimace while the Vance students leave with a smile. He is a truly creative artist speaking in a compelling original voice. It seems that some sort of mix would be ideal, like this Vance book, apparently, which I will check out. One will help you more than the other and one may hinder you more than the other.
Ill definitely check out the Vance. I show a bass-pupil the many possibilities of a certain fingering and tell him: Combined with the pieces I was learning for orchestra to keep myself interested, that is. I completely agree that Simandl should be treated as an advanced text. When a student starts in 3rd position they are able to play pentatonic tunes, which are much easier for simanel young ear to process and hear 3rds, 4ths and 5ths are much easier to hear at first than half steps.
My 4th graders had just learned the D scale in school and old man Simandl was having them grind away on atonal and they really are atonal exercises with accidentals galore. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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