Any upright bassists live in dorms?

[TeeMartin]

I've always wondered how upright players managed in college. Especially ones with amps/other instruments.

[Bruce Lindfield]

Practice rooms!! ??

[bpclark]

Those involved in the music program will usually be given a locker or at least access to a shared area for storage.

[Bruce Lindfield]

The point I was making was that I go to Jazz Summerschool at University of Glamorgan each year and the number 1 rule on campus was - no practicing in rooms !! - i.e. in the accommodation block!!

But seriously - there's nothing worse than trying to get some sleep, when there are 4 or 5 different instrumentalists around you playing different scales/exercises ...

[Nadav]

Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

But seriously - there's nothing worse than trying to get some sleep, when there are 4 or 5 different instrumentalists around you playing different scales/exercises ...

True that. The dreaded french horn...

I keep my bass in the music building in a locked practice room that is shared with a few other bass players. It's much easier than wheeling it back and forth every day.

[dakpluto]

Playing upright and electric bass for the college, I was given my own locked practice room in college.

[MingusAmongUs]

If my college experience was at all typical, hearing french horns or double bass practice 3 rooms down will be the least of your worries. It's the all-night techno parties you should be concerned about.

[Kevin Hsieh]

I have a single dorm at the moment and keep the bass in an open corner. I'm lucky enough to have a violinist as my immediate neighbor and hallmates that party enough to distract the RA's attention from my incessant pounding on my instrument. The violinist and I are cool with practicing whenever we want up until around 11 on weekdays and 1 on weekends.

Attending a liberal arts college rather than a music school, I'm not given any practice rooms, but we do have a nice open lounge with a grand piano that we hold jams in every once in a while.

I have a feeling that the horn players have had a harder time. one of the saxophonists at my school gets complaints whenever he practices (no one wants to hear scales) so he goes down to the 116 subway station once in a while to blow at late nights.

[toman]

We had dedicated rooms for basses and cellos that could be used either for practicing or keeping an instrument. Only section members and instructors and keys, and they were humidied and held pertinent books, music, tape recorder, metronome etc. There were also those little soundproof cubes near the recital hall that most of us practically lived in. Dunno about dorms; I had friends in them but I never had one myself. Some were tiny! Micro/fridge unit indeed...

[B.C.]

I was a jazz major for around a year(switched to engineering) and I didn't get a locker for about 3/4ths of the year. I just moved it to every rehersal from my dorm room(4th floor). It wasn't easy, but def. doable. I'm a non major now and I got a locker. Go figure, lol.

[toman]

I live in an apartment now, and noise cutoff is at 9pm. If I want to jam late at night (I'm a vampire...) I go across the street to the park and play outside. I figure the worst that can happen is the cops might roust me, or the hobos might throw things at me. I can handle that...

[Cosmos]

I live in a single as well and I practice in my dorm room every day. My school isn't a music school, so they don't provide lockers for students with instruments, and there is a limited number of practice rooms to begin with, so practicing in one's room is probably the best option. My dorm was built in the 1930's so the walls are thick stone and you can't hear anything that's going on - natural sound-proofing!

Only trouble is that the bass takes up most of the room... Oh well, fair price to pay!

[CamMcIntyre]

There's a "bass room" at our school. There's enough racks in there to hold everyone's DB. It's a decent sized room-enough to hold i think there's something like 12 of us [ok-our basses], a baby grand, a desk, and still have room to have a sectional [3-4 basses].

When i lived in the dorm, i kept my bass in my room & just put it in a corner. When i lived with a violinist-this was easy as he understands the level of importance that our instruments have, but when i lived with a none-music major, i kept it in the bass room. He didn't have the same sense of "instruments must've be touched" & often brought back friends who were quite plastered.

[PocketGroove82]

Most colleges have double bass lockers located near practice rooms.
The sad thing it, it usually takes a bass getting stolen before they mount security cameras in front of the lockers. Happened at Berklee in 2004-5

[MonetBass]

Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

Practice rooms!! ??

+1. Although If you're not in the music program, you might not know about those.
When I was in school we had a 'bass only' locked room where we could store our basses and practice (albeit a bit cramped).

[GatorBass]

I was in a dorm room with another bass player. We both kept our electrics in the room. I had my UB in the room, and he had his down in the locker so that we could practice when and where we wanted we just shared. I had a little practice amp for his electric, I had my 4x10 and head under my jacked up dorm bed. I had to take a running start to get into it. I will say we had slight larger dorm rooms. I was a very interesting.

[Bruce Lindfield]

Originally Posted by MonetBass

+1. Although If you're not in the music program, you might not know about those.

Actually - that thought hadn't occured to me at all! That is - that somebody would be at college with a Double Bass and not be on a music programme!

I suppose it's eminently possible - just extrrremely unlikely!!

[Marc Piane]

Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

I suppose it's eminently possible - just extrrremely unlikely!!

Unless they want to study something that'll pay better.

Oh wait, that's anything else.

[Bruce Lindfield]

I must say - that I went to (non-music) college a long time ago - but there were definitely no DBs around - lots of electric guitars and basses though - I can only imagine that with the subsequent decline in live music and the increased options to create music on PCs/laptops etc. - that a big, hollow, wooden thing would be seen as even more of an acronism to today's students than it did to my contemporaries, 20 years or so, ago!!

Whereas in the last few years I have been on many Jazz education programmes and have met many young students playing DB, who are involved in full or part-time music education!

[dakpluto]

Originally Posted by fingers

Unless they want to study something that'll pay better.

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