Orin O'Brien: Double-Bass Notebook

Contents

• Foreword by Donald Palma
• About Orin O'Brien
• 1. Introduction and Acknowledgements
• 2. ARF: Automatic Response File
• 3. Before You Play
• 4. Daily Practice Schedule Recommended
• 5. Four-Year Plan (For Conservatory and Private Study)
• 6. Recommended Study Material for Reading and Listening
• 7. Daily Warm-Up Finger Exercises (L.H.)
• 8. Frederick Zimmermann's A Contemporary Concept of Bowing Technique for the Double Bass Explained
• 9. Shifting Practice
• 10. Scale and Arpeggio Suggestions
• 11. Frederick Zimmermann's Editor's Note
• 12. Intonation Etude in D Major by T.A. Findeisen
• 13. Explanation of Hooked Bowings
• 14. Re-taking of Bow (Bow Retrieval) Etude by T.A. Findeisen
• 15. F. Simandl: Etude No. 13 from Gradus ad Parnassum
• 16. Articulation Terms
• 17. Rotation System of Practice (For Learning Difficult Passages)
• 18. Professional Behavior and Auditions
• 19. Basic Principles of Orchestral Playing
• 20. Repertoire Most Often Requested at Double Bass Auditions
• 21. Comparison Chart of Three Basic Styles of Music (Baroque, Classical and Romantic)
• 22. Becoming a Team Player by Jeanne Baxtresser
• 23. Audition Form Used at Professional Auditions
• 24. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, Op. 125: Movement 4: Recitative (Score Articulations and Bowings)
• 25. Ginastera's Variaciones concertantes: Double Bass Solo by Orin O'Brien
• 26. Analytical Practicing by Barry Green
• 27. The Prague School (Courtesy of the Bass Club of Chicago)
• 28. Chamber Music for the Double Bass (Essential Repertoire)
• 29. Photos of Correct Left-Hand Position and Correct German and French Bow Grip