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Hello TalkBass!
Before I joined, TB was my reading room for gathering information on my new Upright Bass and Upton Workshop Bow...I wouldn't have heard about that bow if it weren't for the commotion it struck here.
I'm 21 now, I started playing electric bass when I was 18, I've been playing Upright for a month now maybe.
It's a weird thing, I want a music education...to at least open the door at being a high school or middle school level music teacher. Yet my current college, Brooklyn College, has a classical conservatory that supposedly excels at music education but of course, they play classical double bass.
I thought I would at least give it a crack: buy an upright and be audtion worthy (it's not Julliard) in December of 07.
But the bow is an awkward thing that I realize takes years of discipline in order to be expressive with it. I don't know whether to focus my studies on arco or pizzicato. I realize one is the classical path, the other the jazz path...I want to be proficient at both (and electric bass to boot!) So perhaps I risk being a jack of all trades master of none.
The essence of this introduction is a query for advice: does this situation remind anyone of themselves at some point? Are there penalties to starting later in life that I'm just missing?
Perhaps I just need a practical forum to explore, to pay with others. Can anyone recommend ways a beginning upright player might gain practical experience outside of their bedroom? | 
