Switching to the Double Bass: Chapter 6 - Practical Applications to Standard Repertoire

In this section, you will be given some free reign to choose what to work on next.

All bassists should learn what is considered “standard repertoire” when learning their instrument. You’ve already learned a few of these in this course!

I will provide links to resources below for what to work on next, and when you’re ready, skip to the bottom of the page for the final assignment. Unfortunately, I cannot provide these resources directly to you as that would be a breach of copyright (and most of these authors are alive and need the money), so you’ll need to spend some money to acquire these. I’ve starred the ones that I think are the most useful.

Solo Repertoire:

• *Festival Performance Solos (Carl Fischer)

• Progressive Repertoire for the Double Bass - Volume 2 and Volume 3 (Carl Fischer)

Method Books:

• Rabbath - A New Technique for the Double Bass (Books 1-5)

• *Casey - A Progressive Guide to Orchestral Excerpts for Double Bass - Volume 1

• Simandl - A New Method for the Double Bass (Carl Fischer)

Exercises and Etudes:

• Pierce - Basstudes: 16 etudes for double bass

• *Robinson - Strokin’

• *Robinson - Boardwalkin’

Repertoire:

• *Robinson - The Quad