I have dedicated much of
my musical career over the last twenty years to teaching the double bass and
electric bass. My wide range of musical experience, working in many different
musical genres, has helped me to formulate a more comprehensive and universal
approach, when compared to the simply classical or jazz methods, and has
allowed me to evolve a personal teaching methodology that has now been well
tried and tested. My collaboration with the web magazine JAZZITALIA and the periodical musical
journal GUITAR CLUB ,
which for over a decade has been publishing my transcriptions of those bass
lines and bass solos which I have considered particularly important- either
from an educational or from a purely musical point of view-, interviews,
articles and exercises for electric and double bass, has contributed
considerably to the quantity and variety of the material on which I base my
teaching; even though my tendency is always to personalise to the utmost
degree, the programme to the individual needs of each student. In my work for
various music schools in Italy, such as the Accademia
di Musica Moderna in Modena, the San Carlo Music School in Fermo, Musicarte in Chieti. and recently the M.A.T. in
Villafranca di Verona, I have had the
opportunity to verify the efficacy of my methods, and also, at times, to test
my methodologies and teaching approaches, in the context of short and long term
clinics, where the results have been particularly positive.
At the
bottom of this page you will find some of my transcriptions of solos and themes
played by some of my favourite bassists. In the hope of offering something
useful to those who have kindly visited my website, I have added a few
observations, based on tunes and solos from the jazz repertoire, along with
some technical exercises, with the hope of shedding light on some of the many
problems with which the double bass presents us.
……….The Fourth Finger
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