Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
- Kingfan
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Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
I just got promoted to bass bone in a big band. For most of my life I've played single valve horns. I now have a King 7B double independent valve 'bone. The second valve is new to me. Any suggestions for books to study - exercises, etc.?
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are still missing! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
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- BGuttman
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Re: Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
I play a 7B also and used Raph's The Double Valve Bass Trombone for exercises. (Aharoni hadn't been published yet)
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- vetsurginc
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Re: Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
Bollinger, Blair, Valve Technique for Bass Trombone Subtitled "You've Got TWO Valves, Use BOTH," has some great exercises as well even if you don't use his tuning system.
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Re: Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
The Alan Raph book mentioned by BGuttman was my first base trombone book in 1996 and I still refer back to it. There's a routine in there that he says to do daily without fail. That alone has helped me so much.
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Re: Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
I'm working out of Brad Edwards' Bass Trombone Craft. It starts at a very rudimentary level, but gets to the useful stuff pretty quickly - alternate positions with valve(s), valved slurs, Gb valve singly, connecting registers, sufficient air,... all the usual suspects.
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Re: Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
The Aharoni's non-classical bass bone book has a lot of idiomatic exercises. I like it to get the feel of different styles of bass lines. It gets away from the classic Arbans type of exercises, and helps you figure out style.
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Re: Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
Thanks, everybody. I have a coaching session soon with a local pro bass bone player and will see what he says.
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are still missing! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
Greg Songer
King 606, King 3B-F: DE LT101/LTD/D3
King 4B-F: Bach 5G Megatone gold plated
King 2107 bass: DE MB109/MB J/J8 King
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
Greg Songer
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King 4B-F: Bach 5G Megatone gold plated
King 2107 bass: DE MB109/MB J/J8 King
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Re: Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
Something more modern and detailed, with very thoughtfully arranged sequential exercises using both valves independently, is Sharpe's method, available at https://www.csharpeeditions.com/method- ... -technique.
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Re: Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
There’s a BUNCH of stuff now written for the bass trombone. I, too, started learning before Aharoni. Here’s what I used:
The Lew Gillis books are a good resource for learning and relearning bass trombone with two valves. He has some nice, brief melodic and technical etudes.
I also used the first Faulise book for a while. It helped me set a routine, and I learned warm-ups and patterns specific to the bass trombone. I used his first book and ignored his markings—he wrote the book for dependent bass trombones, but the exercises work well for indies, too.
The Lew Gillis books are a good resource for learning and relearning bass trombone with two valves. He has some nice, brief melodic and technical etudes.
I also used the first Faulise book for a while. It helped me set a routine, and I learned warm-ups and patterns specific to the bass trombone. I used his first book and ignored his markings—he wrote the book for dependent bass trombones, but the exercises work well for indies, too.
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Re: Looking for suggestions for books for a bass doubler
Charles Vernon has his own edition of Blazhevich etudes for bass trombone. From the four samples I saw they look fun and helpful.
For lyrical type playing, can always play Bordogni/Rochut down an octave.
For lyrical type playing, can always play Bordogni/Rochut down an octave.