Audition Requirements

ELECTRIC BASS


  • Technique:
    • All major and melodic minor scales for two octaves. Playing eighth notes with the quarter note equal to 120 beats per minute.
    • The following studies in the Simandl Method for Double Bass, Fischer Edition.
      • Major and minor scale study page 83, 84 and 85
      • Broken chord study page 104-105

  • Solo or Etude from the following or equivalent:
    • Any Baroque sonata or concerto
    • Two contrasting movements of one of the Bach cello suites
    • "Solos from the Double Bass Player" by Oscar Zimmermann (G. Schirmer publisher).


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