Volume/Series: Barenreiter’s Sassmannshaus
Product Format: Performance score(s), Part(s)
Instrumentation: Double bass ( and Piano)
To promote ensemble playing, several of the pieces are given a piano accompaniment enclosed as a separate part.
Other contents of Volume 3 include fundamental ornaments, harmonics and a new rhythmic unit: the triplet.
As follow-up material, we recommend “Concert Pieces for Double Bass and Piano” (BA 9696), a collection of effective yet easily learnt pieces compiled by the same team of authors, forming a bridge to the standard concert repertoire for double bass.
The authors
Bärenreiter’s double bass tutor was written by J. Peter Close and Holger Sassmannshaus on the basis of preparatory work by Egon Sassmannshaus and the double bass teacher Ulrich Schwarz. “Früher Anfang auf dem Kontrabass” transfers the principles and experience gained from the violin tutor, combining them with modern methods of double bass playing to ensure quick progress on this special instrument.
Holger Sassmannshaus, the son of Egon Sassmannshaus, is a double bass player in the Lower Rhine Symphony in Mönchengladbach/Krefeld. He also teaches double bass and plays in other ensembles.
J. Peter Close, Egon Sassmannshaus’s son-in-law, works as a cello and double bass teacher in Munich.
The combined knowledge and experience of the Sassmannshaus/Close family makes these three volumes the most thoroughly researched and thought-through double bass tutor for beginners all over the world.
ISMN: 9790006540280
Publisher Item Number: BA 9663