Category: Peter Tambroni

455: How to Learn a Piece

How do we learn a piece? That’s a question thatI recently put out to the Contrabass Conversations community.  The responses I got back were fascinating. While we all have a different approach to learning a piece (as you’ll see in this episode!), there are certain recurring approaches that I discovered: Listening to recordings Watching videos… Continue reading 455: How to Learn a Piece

224: Peter Tambroni on Student-Centered Teaching and Life Planning

Today’s podcast features an in-depth conversation with Peter Tambroni.  This is a “round two” conversation that builds upon the topics that we covered in our previous talk on episode 204.  Today we dig into fallacies surrounding public school teaching, instrument setup, life planning, instrument insurance, practicing ideas, teaching philosophies, and much more.  This episode is a… Continue reading 224: Peter Tambroni on Student-Centered Teaching and Life Planning

CBC 47: Peter Tambroni interview 2 and Henry Chen music

This week’s Contrabass Conversations Episode features the second part of our interview with double bassist, music educator, and author Peter Tambroni. Last time we heard from Peter (on episode 32), we talked about his early years on the bass, classroom and school orchestra teaching techniques, studying bass during his bachelors and masters degrees, teaching approaches,… Continue reading CBC 47: Peter Tambroni interview 2 and Henry Chen music

CBC 32: Peter Tambroni interview

This week on Contrabass Conversations we bring you an interview with string teacher and double bassist Peter Tambroni. Peter has written a book titled An Introduction to Double Bass Playing, and he has many valuable ideas regarding double bass pedagogy. Arizona bassist Robert Matheson is also featured on this episode. Enjoy!