Double Bass Warm Ups with Susan Hagen
Join our guest presenter, Susan Hagen, as she takes you through a great way to warm up and discusses the importance of having a good warm up in your practice day. Feel free to have your bass handy so you can play along! Exercises will be provided from Susan's "BASSics of Bass" warm up technique book. Every age and level is welcome.
Please click on the PDF icon here to download the play-along exercises.
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For more information about Susan and her warm up book, please visit: Susan P. Hagen: BASSics of Bass: 8 Warm Ups for Players of All Ages
About Susan Hagen:
For the past 15 seasons, Susan has spent most of her time performing as an extra player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She also spends much time performing with the Boston Pops Orchestra and is on many recordings for both groups. Susan recently became the principal double bassist of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the first female ever to do so, and has been a featured soloist with them!
Susan is on faculty at Berklee College of Music and has been a clinician at the Rochester Bass Retreat, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the International Online Bass Summit, Oberlin Conservatory, and Appalachian State, among others.
Susan often performs chamber music and has performed at the International Society of Bassists Convention in 2015 with world-renowned electric bassist Steve Bailey, continues to collaborate with him, and is featured on his latest album entitled “Carolina.”
She loves to perform new music; since March 2020, Susan has recorded more than 50 pieces (all written after 2010) and has given premieres of over 20 pieces in virtual recitals. She gave a solo recital at the International Society of Bassists’ 2021 virtual Convention. In recent seasons Susan has been a soloist with many orchestras and in the autumn of 2022, she will be giving the US premiere of Simón García’s Bass Concerto.
Susan is a founding member and Board Member of the League of Women Bassists, which held their inaugural conference in June 2022, where Susan was a Keynote Speaker and Recitalist.