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  Super Sensitive Red Label 8107 Bass String Set, 3/4

  Musical Instruments (Super Sensitive Musical Strings Co.)
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  Popular-priced and durable

  Recommended violin strings by Suzuki Method instructors, school and private music teachers, students and professionals

  Full core steel string with nickel winding

  Provides excellent tonal quality and dependability

  Designed with the student in mind

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  D'Addario Helicore Hybrid Bass String Set, 3/4 Scale, Medium Tension

  Musical Instruments (D'Addario &Co. Inc)
  

  Rating (1 reviews):

  (5.0/5)

  

  Great Bass Strings

  These strings sound amazing on my ancient Bass Fiddle - I crossed over from gut & classic symphony - to these - to play in a delta blues band. They deliver well - project the sound thru the voices and still keep the beautiful deep tone from my bass (no name about 100 years old). I can keep them quite and deep - or strong and slappy!!I love them. 5/5 Elizabeth L. Dilliplane "Xantoz" (NJ) - See all my reviews, September 25, 2010

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  3/4 size bass with a playing length of 41 3/4 inches (1060mm)

  Medium tension

  Stranded steel core provides optimum playability and produces a clear, warm tone

  Good balance between pizzicato sustain and bow response

  All D'Addario strings are designed, engineered and manufactured in the USA to the most stringent quality controls in the industry

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  D'Addario Helicore Orchestral Bass String Set, 3/4 Scale, Medium Tension

  Musical Instruments (D'Addario &Co. Inc)
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  All D'Addario strings are designed, engineered and manufactured in the USA to the most stringent quality controls in the industry

  3/4 size bass with a playing length of 41 3/4 inches (1060mm)

  Optimized for arco use

  Stranded steel core provides optimum playability and produces a clear, warm tone

  Medium tension

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  Black Diamond "Doghouse Bass" Strings For Double Bass - 7307

  Musical Instruments (Black Diamond)
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  Medium Tension

  Advance Copel Flat Wound on a Multi-Stranded Core

  Full Sound with Excellent Projection and Sustain

  Designed for Acoustic and Electronic Use.

  Super Durable for Heavy Pizzacatto and Slap Bass Players

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  D'Addario Helicore Pizzicato Bass String Set, 3/4 Scale, Medium Tension

  Musical Instruments (D'Addario &Co. Inc)
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  Price: $125.95
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  Medium tension

  Stranded steel core provides optimum playability and produces a clear, warm tone

  All D'Addario strings are designed, engineered and manufactured in the USA to the most stringent quality controls in the industry

  Damping is reduced to create maximum sustain and "growl" for pizzicato

  3/4 size bass with a playing length of 41 3/4 inches (1060mm)

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  Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines, Book 1: Walking Bass Lines- The Blues in 12 Keys Upright Bass and Electric Bass Method

  Book (Waterfall Publishing House)
  

  Rating (6 reviews):

  (5.0/5)

  

  Highly Recommended Jazz Bass Series

  Recommending both Book 1 (The Blues in 12 Keys) and Book 2 (Rhythm Changes in 12 Keys) as a pair for building a firm foundation in learning how to play Jazz bass lines:The 12-bar blues and "Rhythm" changes (coming from "I Got Rhythm") are two of the fundamental building-block progressions in Jazz. Together, they form a basis for understanding much of Jazz. These progressions, or portions of them, are used again-and-again throughout the Jazz repertoire. Yet, it is nice that so many variations are given on the basic A-part of the Rhythm Changes progression, since that is the way it really gets played: not just the same lines repeated over-and-over.I am particularly pleased that all the examples are completely written-out note-for-note; whereas in many books by other authors, an example will be given in one key with the other keys being left up to the student to figure-out! I always found that to be extremely frustrating.Writing-out all the bass... 5/5 The Jazzer - See all my reviews This review is from: Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines, Book 1: Walking Bass Lines- The Blues in 12 Keys Upright Bass and Electric Bass Method (Paperback) Recommending both Book 1 (The Blues in 12 Keys) and Book 2 (Rhythm Changes in 12 Keys) as a pair for building a firm foundation in learning how to play Jazz bass lines:The 12-bar blues and "Rhythm" changes (coming from "I Got Rhythm") are two of the fundamental building-block progressions in Jazz. Together, they form a basis for understanding much of Jazz. These progressions, or portions of them, are used again-and-again throughout the Jazz repertoire. Yet, it is nice that so many variations are given on the basic A-part of the Rhythm Changes progression, since that is the way it really gets played: not just the same lines repeated over-and-over.I am particularly pleased that all the examples are completely written-out note-for-note; whereas in many books by other authors, an example will be given in one key with the other keys being left up to the student to figure-out! I always found that to be extremely frustrating.Writing-out all the bass... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , April 15, 2011

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  An invaluable resource to the aspiring jazz bassist

  "Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines, Book 1, The Blues in 12 Keys: A Comprehensive Guide To Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines for the Double Bassist and Electric Jazz Bassist" is a complete 12-key guide to techniques and devices used to construct walking jazz bass lines in the jazz tradition.Part I, the Blues in F, presents exercises and techniques known to help create robust jazz bass lines, moving forward while retaining a solid rhythmic, harmonic foundation. Part 2, The Blues in 12 Keys, expands further the lessons of Part 1, providing previous techniques and devices used in professional level bass lines in all 12 keys. The practical and ambitious aim of "Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines" is "to give the aspiring bassist a solid grounding in understanding how to construct walking Jazz Bass lines and support a melody and or soloist (p. 97)." The Book concludes with sage advice, "Listen to as much music as you can, Listen to the masters (p.97)."... 5/5 Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines, Book 1: Walking Bass Lines- The Blues in 12 Keys Upright Bass and Electric Bass Method (Paperback) "Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines, Book 1, The Blues in 12 Keys: A Comprehensive Guide To Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines for the Double Bassist and Electric Jazz Bassist" is a complete 12-key guide to techniques and devices used to construct walking jazz bass lines in the jazz tradition.Part I, the Blues in F, presents exercises and techniques known to help create robust jazz bass lines, moving forward while retaining a solid rhythmic, harmonic foundation. Part 2, The Blues in 12 Keys, expands further the lessons of Part 1, providing previous techniques and devices used in professional level bass lines in all 12 keys. The practical and ambitious aim of "Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines" is "to give the aspiring bassist a solid grounding in understanding how to construct walking Jazz Bass lines and support a melody and or soloist (p. 97)." The Book concludes with sage advice, "Listen to as much music as you can, Listen to the masters (p.97)."... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , January 9, 2011

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  An Essential Jazz Bassists Book

  First of all, the title is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, there are transcriptions of Blues in all twelve keys. The transcriptions are 3 to 5 pages each. But what the beginning to intermediate bassist will find most usefull are the 33 pages, at the beginning of the book, demonstrating the various devices that Jazz Bassists use to construct effective bass lines. The Advanced player will welcome the books interesting exercises to use for keeping the chops up. Steven Moody, the author, guides the reader through exercises including Chromatic Approaches, Dominant 7th Chords, Harmonic anticipation, Voice leading tones, and Tri-Tone Substitution. Mr. Moody's book gives clearly written directions of the various techniques,followed by bass clef progressions that detail the examples. All the examples are interesting and go beyond the usual straight 4 beats to the bar that unfortunately fill up many of the books that I've purchased. I can see that this book will end up as dog-eared and ragged as my... 5/5 Richard T. Harris - See all my reviews This review is from: Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines, Book 1: Walking Bass Lines- The Blues in 12 Keys Upright Bass and Electric Bass Method (Paperback) First of all, the title is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, there are transcriptions of Blues in all twelve keys. The transcriptions are 3 to 5 pages each. But what the beginning to intermediate bassist will find most usefull are the 33 pages, at the beginning of the book, demonstrating the various devices that Jazz Bassists use to construct effective bass lines. The Advanced player will welcome the books interesting exercises to use for keeping the chops up. Steven Moody, the author, guides the reader through exercises including Chromatic Approaches, Dominant 7th Chords, Harmonic anticipation, Voice leading tones, and Tri-Tone Substitution. Mr. Moody's book gives clearly written directions of the various techniques,followed by bass clef progressions that detail the examples. All the examples are interesting and go beyond the usual straight 4 beats to the bar that unfortunately fill up many of the books that I've purchased. I can see that this book will end up as dog-eared and ragged as my... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , October 3, 2010

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  Eels: With Strings: Live At Town Hall

  Movie
  

  Rating (16 reviews):

  (4.6/5)

  

  Amazing

  I had the fortune of attending a special screening for this DVD in Hollywood. I arrived not that familiar with the Eels, but left a huge fan of them. This is beautifully shot, the Director did an amazing job highlighting just how spectacular of a performance this was. I immediately came home and placed an order for it and several of the Eels albums. 5/5 Alden Kirkman (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews, February 16, 2006

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  No Strings Attached!

  An excellent performance that exemplify why we love the Man called E (Mark Oliver Everett)!The 2006 Eels with Strings - Live at Town Hall DVD offers glimpses into the musical genius that is E. His stage presence and sardonic delivery only enhanced the dark whimsy of many of his pensive compositions. If you love Eels, you will love this DVD. The production and sound quality is excellent, you feel like you are right there on stage with the musicians.The music is not studio polished--but perhaps better, if not just as good. It is taken mostly from the double album, and it sounds even better live. While the man called E smokes smoothly on his omnipresent cigar, sipping from a glass of brown whisky-like liquid, he delivers his impeccable best. This is a man who sings for the... 5/5 Kort "Art, Music, Book & Movie Enthusiast" (Boca Raton, FL, United States) - See all my reviews, January 29, 2008

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  Splendid!

  The DVD is first-rate. This is not eels music that all will be familiar with, but it's not supposed to be. The strings are beautiful, Chet and the other guy play more instruments (or variations of instruments) than Mike Oldfield on horse tranquilizers and E sounds great. You can tell he's having a blast, and for him to have fun is not always so easy.If you are looking for a greatest hits concert, this isn't it. What it is, however, is a splendid collection of great songs in an intimate setting. One song I particularly loved is Pretty Ballerina, the old Left Banke song.Nicely done, Mark Oliver Everett aka "E" and the rest of the strings and band. A++++++ 5/5 Heisenberg "fredgwynnefan" (southampton, pa) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Eels with Strings - Live at Town Hall (DVD) The DVD is first-rate. This is not eels music that all will be familiar with, but it's not supposed to be. The strings are beautiful, Chet and the other guy play more instruments (or variations of instruments) than Mike Oldfield on horse tranquilizers and E sounds great. You can tell he's having a blast, and for him to have fun is not always so easy.If you are looking for a greatest hits concert, this isn't it. What it is, however, is a splendid collection of great songs in an intimate setting. One song I particularly loved is Pretty Ballerina, the old Left Banke song.Nicely done, Mark Oliver Everett aka "E" and the rest of the strings and band. A++++++ Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , March 29, 2006

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  Double Bass, Viola, Violin, Cello Style Music Cufflinks - String Instrument

  Jewelry (Cuffs & Co)
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  Corelli Nickel Orchestra 3/4 Upright String Double Bass String Set - Medium Gauge

  Musical Instruments (Corelli)
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  Full Set

  Medium Gauge

  This full set Includes Ball End Nickel-Wound Steel Rope Core G, Ball End Nickel-Wound Steel Rope Core, Ball End Nickel-Wound Steel Rope Core A, and Ball End Nickel-Wound Steel Rope Core E

  3/4 String Bass

  All Corelli by Savarez strings are made in France.

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  The Double Bass - Robert Oppelt & Friends

  Music (MSR Classics)
  

  Rating (9 reviews):

  (4.9/5)

  

  Fantastic!!

  I just happened to stumble across this cd one day and decided to give it a listen. Well lets just say that I this album will not be leaving my rotation anytime soon. It is absolutely fantastic! The performances are totally flawless, but what else would you expect from members of the National Symphony Orchestra? This album is a must have for those who enjoy Double Bass music! 5/5 Cassidy A. Morgan "MMMetal" (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews, July 7, 2007

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  Extraordinary, soulful recording (5 star)

  Rob Oppelt and his colleagues have recorded an extraordinary collection of classical music for the double bass. The album is at once precise, elegiac and uplifting. When I first unwrapped my CD, I listened to it straight through, over and over, for four hours. Each listening deepened my appreciation for this wonderful work, spanning Rossini, Debussy, Dragonetti, Barnett and an original composition by Oppelt.More, it is nice that Oppelt's CD notes provide an overview on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a disease that struck his family, and funds from each sale are given to ALS research. 5/5 James R. Wilson (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews, January 10, 2007

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  A rich, bouyant portrait of the double bass

  One Saturday morning while driving on an errand, I turned on my local classical station just in time to catch Bob Oppelt playing "Serenade for Double Bass" by Charlie Barnett. It was lyrical, lovely, exuberant and irresistible. Five minutes after I got home, I had ordered a copy of the CD. :) Since then, Oppelt's "The Double Bass" has become a favorite.Classical music lovers are used to thinking of the bass members of the orchestra--the bassoon, the tuba, and the double bass, for sure--as something of the "class clowns." Most solos seem to be amusing little interludes that we hear in between the more "serious" contributions of instruments playing in a higher register. This CD will go a long way towards changing that impression.The double bass repertoire actually includes a rich variety of lesser known works. In the hands of a master like Oppelt, the instrument is capable of expressing a surprising range of moods and ideas. It is a revelation to hear the double... 5/5 truth, please! (USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: The Double Bass - Robert Oppelt & Friends (Audio CD) One Saturday morning while driving on an errand, I turned on my local classical station just in time to catch Bob Oppelt playing "Serenade for Double Bass" by Charlie Barnett. It was lyrical, lovely, exuberant and irresistible. Five minutes after I got home, I had ordered a copy of the CD. :) Since then, Oppelt's "The Double Bass" has become a favorite.Classical music lovers are used to thinking of the bass members of the orchestra--the bassoon, the tuba, and the double bass, for sure--as something of the "class clowns." Most solos seem to be amusing little interludes that we hear in between the more "serious" contributions of instruments playing in a higher register. This CD will go a long way towards changing that impression.The double bass repertoire actually includes a rich variety of lesser known works. In the hands of a master like Oppelt, the instrument is capable of expressing a surprising range of moods and ideas. It is a revelation to hear the double... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , August 25, 2007

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