François Rabbath

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Walpurgis 00:00 Tools
Désert 00:00 Tools
Kobolds 00:00 Tools
Ode D'Espagne 00:00 Tools
Impalas 00:00 Tools
Exil 00:00 Tools
Bitume 00:00 Tools
Creasy Course 00:00 Tools
Requiem Pour Goa 00:00 Tools
Breiz 00:00 Tools
Hésitations 00:00 Tools
Classical Impromptu 00:00 Tools
Manteau De Pluie 00:00 Tools
Rhapsodie Pour Contrebasse 00:00 Tools
Basses En Fugue 00:00 Tools
Western à la Breughel 00:00 Tools
Prélude À L'archet 00:00 Tools
Supremum Vale 00:00 Tools
Poucha-Dass 00:00 Tools
Thyossane 00:00 Tools
Poucha Dass (Arranged by Willem van Merwijk) - Live 00:00 Tools
Crazy Course 00:00 Tools
Poucha Dass 00:00 Tools
Incantation Pour Junon 00:00 Tools
Sete-Quate 00:00 Tools
Prélude A L'archet 00:00 Tools
Equation Du Temps 00:00 Tools
Variation Sur Trois Cordes 00:00 Tools
Embruns 00:00 Tools
Horda 00:00 Tools
Hesitations 00:00 Tools
L'odyssee D'eau 00:00 Tools
Leylim Ley 00:00 Tools
Prelude à L'Archet 00:00 Tools
Papa Georges 00:00 Tools
Reitba 00:00 Tools
Western A La Bruegel 00:00 Tools
Basses En Fugue No. 1 00:00 Tools
Ma mère, Baidja 00:00 Tools
Olivier 00:00 Tools
Ordis 00:00 Tools
Mutants d'eau pale 00:00 Tools
La Guerre et la paix (War and Peace): 1 Avant-Guerre (Before the war) 00:00 Tools
Toreador song 00:00 Tools
Hekmoglu 00:00 Tools
La Guerre et la paix (War and Peace): 2 Guerre (War) 00:00 Tools
Basses En Fugue No. 2 "Les Gorgones" 00:00 Tools
Variation Sur 3 Cordes 00:00 Tools
La Guerre et la paix (War and Peace): 4 Paix (Peace) 00:00 Tools
Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Allegro 00:00 Tools
Prades 00:00 Tools
La Guerre et la paix (War and Peace): 3 Apres-Guerre (After the war) 00:00 Tools
Largo 00:00 Tools
Basse En Fugue N°2 - "Les Gorgones" 00:00 Tools
Mapusane (La prison) 00:00 Tools
Basse en Fugue n°2 00:00 Tools
Dere geliyor (Elle court, la rivière...) 00:00 Tools
Omer Pacha 00:00 Tools
Aragonaise 00:00 Tools
La Guerre et la Paix 00:00 Tools
Prelude A L'Archet 00:00 Tools
Urganda gerdan iniler (Pendu à la corde, gémit le cou) 00:00 Tools
J.S Bach, suite N°1 - Prelude 00:00 Tools
Iberique Peninsulaire 00:00 Tools
Concerto No. 1 For Solo Double Bass 00:00 Tools
Allemande 00:00 Tools
Kalkti goc eyeledi avsar elleri (Les tribus d'Avchar ont levé le camp) 00:00 Tools
Argonaise 00:00 Tools
Inspiration (Contrebasse, flûte indienne et tablas) 00:00 Tools
Interlude 00:00 Tools
Fantasy - Agitato - Ad lib - Slowly 00:00 Tools
Gigue 00:00 Tools
Sarabande 00:00 Tools
Bohemian dance 00:00 Tools
Gavotte 00:00 Tools
Courante 00:00 Tools
Kalenin onu (Devant le rempart) 00:00 Tools
Bohemain dance 00:00 Tools
Variations sur trois cordes 00:00 Tools
Bana seni gerek seni (Pour moi, c'est toi qu'il me faut) 00:00 Tools
Carmen Fantasy - prélude 00:00 Tools
Menuets 1 et 2 00:00 Tools
Concerto No. 2 00:00 Tools
Basse en Fugue n°1 00:00 Tools
Reibta 00:00 Tools
Adagio, molto rubato 00:00 Tools
Presto 00:00 Tools
Vivaldi, sonate N°5 - Largo 00:00 Tools
The Elephant from Carnival of Animals 00:00 Tools
Gozumde daim hayal-i cana (À mes yeux toujours l'image de l'aimée) 00:00 Tools
Ornithology 00:00 Tools
Proto- A Carmen Fantasy - Prelude 00:00 Tools
I Will Wait For You 00:00 Tools
Adagio 00:00 Tools
Le Cri 00:00 Tools
La Cinquantaine 00:00 Tools
Western à la Bruegel 00:00 Tools
G. Bizet, reduction Carmen, Prélude 00:00 Tools
Dortluk (Quatrain) 00:00 Tools
Tre Goirni from Lo Frate 'nnamorato 00:00 Tools
Hurriyet kavgasi (La lutte de la liberté) 00:00 Tools
Proto- A Carmen Fantasy - Aragonaise 00:00 Tools
Proto- A Carmen Fantasy - Bohemian Dance 00:00 Tools
L'odyssée d'eau 00:00 Tools
Rabbath - Incantation pour Junon 00:00 Tools
Allegro energico - bossa nova 00:00 Tools
Espoir 00:00 Tools
Proto- A Carmen Fantasy - Nocturne- Micaela's Aria 00:00 Tools
Concerto (1st Mvt) 00:00 Tools
Presto from Sonata No. 10 00:00 Tools
Romance 00:00 Tools
Kirdikar (Ils ont brisé) 00:00 Tools
Abidin 00:00 Tools
Bugun ben bir soz isittim (J'ai entendu dire) 00:00 Tools
Gavotte from Mignon 00:00 Tools
70 mp3 00:00 Tools
Emily - Moon River 00:00 Tools
My Foolish Heart 00:00 Tools
In A Sentimental Mood 00:00 Tools
Proto- A Carmen Fantasy - Toreador Song 00:00 Tools
08-bitume 00:00 Tools
03-walpurgis 00:00 Tools
Russian Sailor's Dance 00:00 Tools
Concerto No. 3 for double bass and piano 00:00 Tools
Chorale from Symphony No. 9 00:00 Tools
Adagio from Sonata No. 10 00:00 Tools
Asker kacagi (Mement le déserteur) 00:00 Tools
Minuet L'Antique 00:00 Tools
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life 00:00 Tools
Infant Eyes 00:00 Tools
Night And Day 00:00 Tools
I. Prélude 00:00 Tools
I'm Beginning To See The Light 00:00 Tools
Misty 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
My One And My Only Love 00:00 Tools
The Windmills Of Your Mind 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love 00:00 Tools
12-basses en fugue 00:00 Tools
F. Rabbath, concerto N°3 00:00 Tools
Haspisteler ama : Yenilige dogru (Ils sont en prison mais...) 00:00 Tools
Wild Rider from Album for the Young 00:00 Tools
Onlar (Eux) 00:00 Tools
Recitative from Symphony No. 9 00:00 Tools
Kadinlarimizin yuzleri (Visages de nos femmes) 00:00 Tools
Rondo 00:00 Tools
Carmen Fantasy For Double Bass & Piano - Aragonaise 00:00 Tools
Basse en fugue no. 2 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Heartache 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prelude 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies 00:00 Tools
Rabbath - Reitba 00:00 Tools
My Love 00:00 Tools
Unforgettable 00:00 Tools
Berecuse 00:00 Tools
Rabbath - Concerto No. 3 for Double Bass and Piano 00:00 Tools
Suite N° 1 In G Major BWV 1007 : I. Prélude 00:00 Tools
03-manteau de pluie 00:00 Tools
Ne bilir (Que sait-il ?) 00:00 Tools
01-requiem pour goa 00:00 Tools
06-supremum vale 00:00 Tools
Chagall de Basse 00:00 Tools
rhapsodie pour contrabasse 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: VI. Gigue 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: III. Courante 00:00 Tools
Once Upon A Summmertime 00:00 Tools
Concerto N°1 00:00 Tools
Oliver 00:00 Tools
Mutants d'eau pâle 00:00 Tools
Gelin canlar bir olalim (Amis venez, unissons-nous) 00:00 Tools
05-variation sur trois cordes 00:00 Tools
07-rhapsodie pour contrebasse 00:00 Tools
Incatation Pour Junon 00:00 Tools
Carmen Fantasy For Double Bass & Piano - Prelude 00:00 Tools
Ode D' Espagne 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: II. Allemande 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: IV. Sarabande 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: I. Prelude 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: IV. Sarabande 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: III. Courante 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: VI. Gigue 00:00 Tools
Prelude 00:00 Tools
Ode D'Esapgne 00:00 Tools
III. Courante 00:00 Tools
Poucha Dass for Solo Double Bass 00:00 Tools
Carmen Fantasy For Double Bass & Piano - Bohemian Dance 00:00 Tools
Carmen Fantasy For Double Bass & Piano - Toreador Song 00:00 Tools
concerto No3 for double bass 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: I. Prelude 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: V. Bourrées I & II 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: II. Allemande 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: V. Menuets I & II 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: II. Allemande 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: III. Courante 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: IV. Sarabande 00:00 Tools
Suite n° 1 en sol majeur BWV 1007 : 2. Allemande 00:00 Tools
First Steps 00:00 Tools
Suite n° 1 en sol majeur BWV 1007 : 4. Sarabande 00:00 Tools
Suite n° 1 en sol majeur BWV 1007 : 3. Courante 00:00 Tools
Weeping Woman 00:00 Tools
Rabbath: L'Odyssee D'eau 00:00 Tools
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François Rabbath (b 1931 Aleppo, Syria)) is a contemporary Syrian French double-bass player, soloist, and composer. He was born into a family of musicians but his only instruction came from a book written by a Parisian bassist Edouard Nanny. In 1955 he went to Paris, hoping to meet Nanny, who had died before he arrived, but he continued to study, and in 1964 recorded for the first time. Rabbath's greatest influence was in the field of bass pedagogy. His Nouvelle technique de la contrebasse is a new approach to double-bass playing that works especially well for soloing. The main difference in his approach from that of Franz Simandl is his use of the left hand. In Simandl's system, one position (below thumb position) encompasses only a whole step. In Rabbath's method, the entire fingerboard is divided into only six positions, defined by the location of natural harmonics on the strings. This is done by using extension fingerings, in which the thumb remains in one place but the hand shifts up and down, and by playing across the strings. Passages that would be quite difficult and require large amounts of shifting using traditional fingering are made much easier by using this method. Though Rabbath's method is progressive, some argue that Simandl's method should be the first taught to beginning students because the rigid position system gives them a very good idea of where they are on the fingerboard, and it is easier to play in tune. Rabbath's system also uses extensive scale repetition for study. He writes out a two-octave scale, for example F major, then writes every fingering variation within his system. He has also developed a number of bowing variations, from whole notes to sixteenthth notes to even faster, all to be performed at the frog, middle, tip, and then middle parts of the bow. This method is different from Simandl's who focus on certain segments of the bass instead of the entire finger board in one study. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.