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Ready to take your playing to the next level? Renowned bassist Andy McKee presents valuable how-to insight that upright bassists of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text, photos, music, diagrams and accompanying audio tracks provide a terrific, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics, including: right- and left-hand technique, improvising and soloing, practicing, proper care of the instrument, ear training, performance, and much more.
Online audio is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary

Table of Contents:

• Parts of the Bass
• A Good Luthier is Your Best Friend
• Buying an Upright Bass
• Finding the Right Strings
• Changing Strings
• String Height
• Get a Wheel
• Shoulder Strap
• Rentals
• Rosin
• Three Sessions a Day
• Good Hand Position
• Balance
• Simple Pizzicato Studies
• 3rds Studies
• 3rds Again
• Still More 3rds
• 4ths Studies
• Monster 5ths
• Melodious 6ths
• Angular 7ths
• Major Scale Fingerings
• Arpeggios
• Arpeggios Within
• Step Outside of Your Comfort Zone
• Melodic Minor Scales
• Set Some Limits
• Fingering Options
• Hammer-Ons and Pull-offs
• Chromatic Scales
• Use a Metronome
• Octave Studies
• Scales with Dynamics
• Warm-up Exercise
• C Major Study
• Sit or Stand
• Siminished Ideas
• Thumb Position Fingerings
• Thumb Position Fingering Options
• Thumb Position Glissandro
• Vibrato
• Tremolo
• Trills
• Whole Tone Scales
• Get a Grip
• Think Weight
• Long Tones

Catalog:	HL00102009
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
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Voicing:	Double Bass
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Pages:	72