In this lesson I teach you how to switch between pizzicato and arco when using the German pattern double bass bow. There’s a couple of ways to do it and I show you the methods that were taught to me years ago by a superb teacher Gjorgji Cincievski who first introduced me to the German bow.

If you play a French pattern double bass check out this superb lesson by Lauren Pierce on switching between pizzicato and arco.

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For more lessons on double bass technique please check out Beginner's Double Bass: A step-by-step method. 83 video lessons, 6 hrs.