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09-20-2006, 10:55 AM
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Are there any awesome classical songs that sounds good on bass? Like something by bach or beethoven....Ive heard some of their tunes and i like em alot but i dont know their names...
please name me some that are not overly difficult to play...thanks |
09-20-2006, 10:56 AM
| | Peavey Partizan | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Long Island NY/College Park MD | | | Bach Suites for cello.
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09-20-2006, 11:00 AM
| | gone to Longstanton Spice Museum | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: UK | | | wrong forum... this isn't a technique question
try the opening bassoon part from the Rite of Spring (not classical but then Bach isn't either)... if Jaco can use it (quoted in his Havona bass solo) then so can you!
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09-20-2006, 11:08 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | "Songs" - with lyrics....  ?
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09-20-2006, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield "Songs" - with lyrics.... ? | 
Why do people so often make that mistake? |
09-20-2006, 12:25 PM
| | Registered User | | | | ahhh should i call it pieces or instrumental? bleh watever...cmon man i think this classify as technique if we practise these 'pieces' to hone our skillz
anyways, does anynoe wads the name of this song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRGKqlHQ6rw |
09-20-2006, 12:35 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by BrandonBass | That's J.S. Bach's two-part invention #13 in A minor. I did an arrangement of that for two basses and use it in my teaching program. Great piece (when played decently, of course. I don't like that video). |
09-21-2006, 03:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rochester NY | | | how bout chromatic fantasy by bach? bach isnt classical, hes baroque...but i bet that would sound amazing on bass if you could play it...wait...this sounds familiar. |
09-22-2006, 08:47 AM
| | | | But seriously, how about Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"-- it's a "standard", often heard at weddings, etc.... Beautiful melody, not hard to play.
You can't go wrong with anything by Bach, actually. If you're not a great sight-reader, try picking up a copy of his 4-part chorales and read the bottom line of each. Good practice. |
09-22-2006, 09:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: bezerkeley | | | i've been tryin to play Bach Sonatas and Partitas for violin... they sound pretty good on bass |
09-22-2006, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Austin, Texas | | The Cello Suites and Chromatic Fantasy are EXTREMELY virtuosic. However, you might want to look at Bourree I and II of Suite III. The original key is C major so transpose it to G major for bass. Also, look at Bourree II of Suite IV.
You might also want to look at some double bass method books for some cool pieces. Try Simandl, Rabbath, or Vance. 
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09-22-2006, 10:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mother North | | | Bach's BWV 1007.
Great for fret hand fingering and plucking hand muting.
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09-22-2006, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by BrandonBass Are there any awesome classical songs that sounds good on bass? Like something by bach or beethoven....Ive heard some of their tunes and i like em alot but i dont know their names...
please name me some that are not overly difficult to play...thanks | The only thing that I can think of are the Schubert lieder. You definitely couldn't play the accompaniment, but my guess is the melody would work out on bass, might rub kinda weird with the piano part in that register though. 
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09-22-2006, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rochester NY | | | tacatta in fugue would be pretty sweet...thats the peice thats like...ooo scary organ music...oooo.
or like jesu, joy of mans desiring, like said above, would be real cool. i think something like the alleluhia chorus played slap or something weird would be cool too...i love when peices like that are totally changed but you can still recognize them. |
09-22-2006, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by WillBuckingham The only thing that I can think of are the Schubert lieder. You definitely couldn't play the accompaniment, but my guess is the melody would work out on bass, might rub kinda weird with the piano part in that register though.
-Will | Erl Konig is a good one. When played in the correct register this song works very well. A friend of mine played it in college on DB but took the melody down an octave. The piano part really covered the melody. But up an octave it works fine; cuts through the piano very well.
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09-23-2006, 12:44 AM
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Originally Posted by fcleff Erl Konig is a good one. When played in the correct register this song works very well. A friend of mine played it in college on DB but took the melody down an octave. The piano part really covered the melody. But up an octave it works fine; cuts through the piano very well. | Cool! I was just being kind of snippy in my post, as the original poster asked for "classical songs" when what I think he was looking for was classical music to play on his bass. |
09-23-2006, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by WillBuckingham Cool! I was just being kind of snippy in my post, as the original poster asked for "classical songs" when what I think he was looking for was classical music to play on his bass. | It didn't sound snippy at all but yes, that is what he (or she) seems to be looking for. Faure's "Apres un Reve" is also really nice on bass (DB) though I have never played it on BG. Many of the art songs can be done on bass. Koussevitsky's "Chanson Triste" would be cool on BG, too.
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09-23-2006, 12:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Austin, Texas | | I was just backing up some files on my computer. It was taking a while so I played through some of the Rabbath etudes in Books 1 & 2. They work fine on BG and sound cool, too. Check 'em out.
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09-23-2006, 05:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Bronx, NY | | | May I recommend "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Grieg, from the Peter Gynt Suite. You will recognise it. |
09-23-2006, 05:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northeast, US | | | Plush, by Stone Temple Pilots. Oh wait, that's not what you meant.
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