Week 2 blog prompt 2

http://doublebassblog.org/2006/11/rabbath-versus-simandl-comparative.html

This blog post interests me professionally because the issue of Rabbath vs. Simandl teaching techniques has been an age old debate in the double bass world.  The fact that the author seems to finally land on the preferance of the George Vance method, which is a bit of an amalgamation of the two, is particularly interesting to me, because that is what method I was primarily brought up with.  My first teacher started me with simandl, but less than a year later, when I switched teachers, I started using the Vance books.  as a student, I greatly preferred this to what I was doing prior.  And for a lot of the same reasons that the author of this blog post states his students preferred Vance.  It would be interesting to research how many teachers use which method of study, now that the Vance books have been out for longer than when I was first starting.  I use the Vance book with my students to great success, but would be interested to see how new bass players are taking to the older simandle technique nowadays.