I teach classical double bass, using the methodologies I learned from my teachers including Donald Palma, Stephen Tramontozzi, and Curtis Burriss. Here is where I keep my recommended double bass sheet music selections, teaching tools, and practice aids that I use with my students:
Methods
- ABC’s of Bass for the Absolute Beginner to the Intermediate Student
- ABC’s of Bass, Book 2 – Developing Student
- Flesch, Carl: Scale System
- Petracchi, Francesco: Simplified Higher Technique
- Sevcik/Reinke: Bogenstudien, Op. 2 (School of Bowing Technique 1), Doublebass
- Contemporary Concept of Bowing Technique for Double Bass, Zimmerman
- Simandl, Franz: 30 Etudes for Double Bass
- Simandl, Franz: New Method for the Double Bass, Book I
- Simandl, Franz: New Method for the Double Bass, Book II
- Suzuki Bass School, vol.1 (bass)
- Suzuki Bass School, vol.2 (bass)
- Suzuki Bass School, vol.3 (bass)
- All for Strings Book 1 String Bass
Solo Music
- Bottesini, Giovanni: Complete Bottesini, Vol. 1
- Bottesini, Giovanni: Complete Bottesini, Vol. 2
- Bottesini, Giovanni: Complete Bottesini, Vol. 3
- Bottesini, Giovanni: Concerto No. 2 in B minor (IMC)
- Bottesini, Giovanni: Concerto No.2 in B minor (Music Minus One)
- Bottesini, Giovanni: Concerto No.2 (in A minor, orchestral tuning piano part)
- Capuzzi, Antonio: Double Bass Concerto in F
- Druckman, Jacob, Valentine for Solo Double Bass
- Eccles, Henry, Sonata in G minor
- Henze, Hans Werner: S. Biagio 9 Agosto Ore 1207, for Double Bass Solo
- Henze, Hans Werner: Serenade for Solo Double Bass
- Hindemith, Paul: Pieces For Solo Double Bass (1927)
- Hindemith, Paul: Sonata (1949) for Double Bass and Piano
- Koussevitsky, Sergei: Valse Miniature Op.2 No.2
- Misek, Adolph: Sonata in E minor, Op.6
- Schubert, Franz: Sonata in A Minor (Arpeggione Sonata)
- Vivaldi, Antonio: Six Sonatas
- Walter, David: Beginning to Intermediate Contest Solos
- Bach for the Young Bass Player (Double Bass / Piano)
Chamber Music
- Beethoven, Ludwig van: Septet (cl, bs, hn, vl, vla, vc, db)
- Crumb, George: Madrigals Book 1 (soprano, vibraphone, double bass)
- Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich: Grand Sextet (2vl, vla, vc, db, pf)
- Hindemith, Paul: Two Duets for Bassoon And Double Bass
- Martinu, Bohuslave: Sextet (2vl, 2vla, 2vc, 1opt. db)
- Mendelssohn, Felix: Sextet (vl, 2vla, vc, db, pf)
- Prokofiev,Sergei: Quintet in G Minor, Op. 39 D667 (ob, cl, vl, vla, db)
- Rossini, Gioacchino: Duetto (vc, db)
- Schubert, Franz: Octet, Op.166 D.803 (cl, bs, hn, 2vl, vla, vc, db)
- Schubert, Franz: Quintet, op.114 “Trout” (vl, vla, vc, db, pf)
- Spohr, Louis: Nonet in F major, Op.31
- Wuorinen, Charles: Spinoff (violin, double bass, congas)
- Igor Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat (A Soldier’s Tale)