BASS
SCHOOL
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.
“BASS NOTES “ Vol.1 is a work of mine about exercise for double bass from
solos,walking and themes.If you want to see the index page and one of the
chapters ( Cap.8, sorry only in italian), please click the pictures.
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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