Some more beginner double bass stuff from Zoltan with how high to set a bass endpin. An insane upright bass pickup bake-off. Antonio Escobedo does Four Short Pieces for Double Bass in his recital video. And Leon Bosch premieres a new work for double bass and orchestra.
And Introducing the Bonnie Jones Grant.
Should keep us busy for another week, right?
Rx: You want to know how high to set the bass.
Zoltan tells us how to adjust the endpin so we can reach everything on the bass.
Rx: Learn the names of the notes on bass strings.
Zoltan Dekany teaches what strings are tuned to.
This week we got back to basics with Zoltan Dekany doing the C Major Scale on double bass. Thomas Martin shows us how he makes a double bass. And Mark Buchner gives us Scodanibbio’s Sequenza XIVb for Double Bass.
I nerd out about the role of music in the health of cities and hand over my notes to Music Cities DC.
Upcoming event: Božo Paradžik’s students perform a piece for 8 double basses and wooden cube!
Rx: You want to know how to play a C major scale on bass.
Zoltan teaches the C major scale.
Rx: Beginning to play pitches beyond the the open strings.
Zoltan is usually associated with jazz playing. But everything he talks about here is also useful to classical playing as it’s basic mechanics and posture.
Straightforward presentation. Zoltan is great about explaining why he suggests to do things so there isn’t any guesswork required.
Concepts presented include:
