OTHER LOW-END INSTRUMENTS?

[guitardefector]

Hello TB community. Like yourselves, I have a love affair with the bass. I spend a good deal of my free time playing, reading and discussing bass.

However, I do love listening to other low-end instruments now and then, such as the cello. I love Yo Yo Ma and Pablo Casals. And also because of my Latin heritage, I love the guitarron or Mexican mariachi bass.

So my question: Besides our cousin the upright bass, what other low-end instruments do you gents enjoy listening to in your spare time?

[bassteban]

My ears tend to study the drums/percussion in anything I happen to hear first, then bass- I actually think a bit about what the drums are doing; not so much w/the bass. I do like a lot of synth in the low end- if the tune calls for it. I also saw the Bayou Brass Band in Disneyland a few times- they had a ripping tuba man.

[sarcastro83]

a nice, bassy, rumbly, synth sound is always cool.

[Duplo42]

(Subbass) bassoon, bass flute (check Morricone's Secret of Sahara OST), bass shakuhachi, many piano music has great "bass" in left hand, so many solo cello works are great, even modern accordeon music has some really wicked bass lines i like to listen to...

Check some good symphonic stuff also, like Hans Rott Sym.No.1, Stravinsky Rite of Spring, later years Beethoven has some terrific stuff also, then Mahler and oh so many others...
Dunno, options to find good bass music/lines are endless...And one must like the sub bass recorder and sax

Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Nz0...eature=related and then transcribe it

[TolerancEJ]

Listen to piano pieces to inspire you for 2-handed tapping. A keyboardist/pianist is usually playing both the bass and melody pieces simultaneously.

[5string5fingers]

Baritone Sax,and piano of course

[Floridabwoy]

Microkorg...

Dubstep, Drum and Bass

[MaddAnthony_59]

French Horn & Trombone! The Bassoon if I'm in the Right Mood...

Tuba & SousaPhone doesn't annoy me though.

[bgmww]

Marcodi Harpejii <----- Google that

[ButtUglyJeff]

My son played cello for 5 years prior to picking up the bass guitar. I enjoyed the smoothness of the notes that come from that instrument. I now wish that was my instrument of choice, while going to school. I it's benefit, in my son's playing.

When I was in school, I played baritone, trombone, and tuba........

[nato101010]

Trombone?

[poorbassist15]

MiniMoog, hands down. Even my freeware VST destroys subwoofers!

[Muaguana]

Cello is a favorite of mine; I love using it as a lead instrument in compositions. The didgeridoo is one of my absolute favorite instruments, and I currently have one in my possession that I've been meaning to learn how to play. Though I'm with bassteban in that I usually search for the rhythm and percussion instruments when listening to music first and foremost (hence the didgeridoo love.)

[ggunn]

Originally Posted by TolerancEJ

Listen to piano pieces to inspire you for 2-handed tapping. A keyboardist/pianist is usually playing both the bass and melody pieces simultaneously.

Though playing in a group alongside a keyboardist with a heavy left hand can be a challenge for a bass player.

[champbassist]

Originally Posted by TolerancEJ

Listen to piano pieces to inspire you for 2-handed tapping. A keyboardist/pianist is usually playing both the bass and melody pieces simultaneously.

I've heard some people talk about this but I've never been able to find piano pieces which can be adapted for two handed tapping on a bass. Either they don't fit in with a bass guitar's range, or the fingerings are impossible for a bass. IME, mazurkas can be loosely adapted but they can't be totally nailed.

Could you give us any examples of such piano pieces that you talk about?

[fearceol]

The bass clarinet is one of my favourites.

http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=h...ed=0CCwQ9QEwAw

[Duplo42]

I think i want bass vuvuzela. A low B one, if possible :P Imagine the stadium filled with such monsters :O

Originally Posted by bgmww

Marcodi Harpejii <----- Google that

Neat-o. I forgot it existed.

[codeinedreams]

Originally Posted by champbassist

I've heard some people talk about this but I've never been able to find piano pieces which can be adapted for two handed tapping on a bass. Either they don't fit in with a bass guitar's range, or the fingerings are impossible for a bass. IME, mazurkas can be loosely adapted but they can't be totally nailed.

Could you give us any examples of such piano pieces that you talk about?

right now I'm transposing Debussy's Reverie for tapping on bass. it's taking a long time since I have to rewrite most of it to fit in with bass tapping. promise to post a video when it's done (which might be a while). I did an arrangement for moonlight sonata but for fingerstyle, since I wasn't into tapping yet back then, but that one would be good for tapping too I'm sure (I don't like the stu hamm version though).

I also played bass flute and bass clarinet - always liked the bass instruments. a pipe organ has some great tones too

[The Owl]