Metodos y Estudios Contrabajo

After the first pages featuring open strings and basic note values, the "cuckoo call" is introducedas a basic interval. Note reading is practiced from the beginning, and accidentals are explained inan easily understandable way. By the end of the first book, students have had the opportunity to play many English children´s songs using the first, second and fourth fingers, and note values from whole to eighth notes have been learned. Most exercises are underlaid with text so that rhythms can beeasily learned and melodies can be perceived as a whole. The important melodic building blocks of thirds, triads and scales are introduced. Scales in C, G, F, and B-flat major are played in one octave.