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Because students have limited practice time, progress as quickly as possible by gleaning the most benefit from the precious time available. This is a compilation of exercises, each focusing on a particular technical challenge, distilling it to its essence.

Many of these arpeggios may be of particular interest to jazz players. Because there are three complete octaves in every key available on double basses with a fingerboard of average length, each arpeggio type is presented...

Arranges the twelve key centers in ascending chromatic order from E to E-flat. Each key includes major, natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, chromatic, whole-tone, diminished, and what Dr. Morton calls major pentatonic, and minor pentatonic scales. Many of these scales will be of particular interest to jazz players.

Dr. Morton's Primer Scale and Apreggio Fingerings was written to prepare inexperienced players for the more "professional" fingerings of the Miraculous fingering books.