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Parts of the Bass Tips History of the Bass Duets Bass Repertoire
The Greatest Classical Bassists The Greatest Jazz Bassists


Below are tips and videos related to becoming the best Bassist you can be!:

PARTS OF THE BASS:
Check out this page showing the parts of the Bass


Bass Tips!:
Bass Care: This page tells how to care for your Bass: Bass Care
Bass Tips: This page offers tips on holding your bass and more: Bass Tips
Information on caring for your upright bass (amromusic.com)


Bass History:
Bass (per ohmusicstudent)
History of the Bass (per Standard of Excellence, Book 1)
History of the Bass (per musicalinstrumentguide.com)
History of the Bass (per theinstrumentplace.com)
Double Bass (per wikipedia.org)
Bass Guitar/Electric Bass (per wikipedia.org)



Bass Duets:
Great duets for 2 Bassists!


Bass Repertoire:


The Greatest Classical Bassists!:
List of classical double bass players (wikipedia)

Historical:
Johannes Matthias Sperger (1750-1812) composer
Domenico Dragonetti (1763-1846) composer, conductor
Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889) composer, conductor
Franz Simandl (1840-1912) composer
Édouard Nanny (1872-1943) composer
Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951) composer, conductor
Ludvig Juht (1894-1957) composer

North America:
Edwin Barker
Jeff Bradetich
Bruce Bransby
Maximilian Dimoff
Timothy Cobb
David Currie
Mark Dresser
Paul Ellison
Diana Gannett
John Geggie
Larry Gray
Gary Karr
Albert Laszlo
Eugene Levinson
Jane Little
Salvatore Macchia
Jeremy McCoy
Linda McKnight
Homer Mensch
Edgar Meyer
Mark Morton
Orin O'Brien
Donald Palma
Scott Pingel
Frank Proto
Joel Quarrington
Hal Robinson
Stuart Sankey
Karl E. H. Seigfried
Peter Seymour
Dennis Trembly
Bertram Turetzky
Frederick Zimmermann
Oscar G. Zimmerman
Monica Witni
Europe:
Leon Bosch
Uxía Martínez Botana
Gavin Bryars
Jurek Dybał
Gerald Drucker
Renaud Garcia-Fons
Gareth Wood
Heinz Karl Gruber
Teppo Hauta-Aho
Rinat Ibragimov
Jorma Katrama
Joëlle Léandre
Uxía Martínez Botana
Duncan McTier
Chi-chi Nwanoku
Frantisek Posta [cs; de]
Franco Petracchi
François Rabbath
Jean-Pierre Robert
Edicson Ruiz
Rodney Slatford
Allan von Schenkel
Indi Stivín
Ludwig Streicher
Joris Vanvinckenroye
Rainer Zepperitz
South America:
Edicson Ruiz

Asia:
Mikyung Sung

Australia:
Phoebe Russell



The Greatest Jazz Bassists!:
List of jazz bass players (wikipedia)

Best Jazz Bassists Ever (from www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-jazz-bassists/)

Upright bassists:
     Ron Carter
     Cleveland Eaton (on "Booty's Blues")

Electric Bassists:
     Jaco Pastorius

More: Best Rock and Pop (and Jazz) Bassists Ever: (Rolling Stone)


Jazz Lingo
Hepster Dictionary of Jive      (apassion4jazz.net)

12-Bar Blues: List of Blues Heads (sorted by title, .pdf file)

Jazz Standards: Sample Jazz Standard List (concert parts)





































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