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12-22-2012, 12:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Yeah, it's like that. You gradually get more control and better intonation going up the neck. You think you've got it going up to the D on the G string and you realize you don't really got it so well. You get used to one key and then you realize another key is kind of a different animal. I've been playing DB for about two years. The sensation is this: I never thought it would take this long to get to where I am, while I also never thought I would sound this good. So the further you get down the path, the longer it seems. This is great if you hate being bored. It's awful if you value the product over the process.
I'd also say that the better I get, the greater my heroes seem to me. You'd think once you understood what someone was doing, some of the magic would go away, but really your understanding gets deeper and so does your perception into what they're doing.
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12-22-2012, 08:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Downingtown, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Anonymatt  Yeah, it's like that. You gradually get more control and better intonation going up the neck. You think you've got it going up to the D on the G string and you realize you don't really got it so well. You get used to one key and then you realize another key is kind of a different animal. I've been playing DB for about two years. The sensation is this: I never thought it would take this long to get to where I am, while I also never thought I would sound this good. So the further you get down the path, the longer it seems. This is great if you hate being bored. It's awful if you value the product over the process.
I'd also say that the better I get, the greater my heroes seem to me. You'd think once you understood what someone was doing, some of the magic would go away, but really your understanding gets deeper and so does your perception into what they're doing. | The fingerboard is so much bigger, like where I think the 'G' on the G string is, the note is really a 'D'. Does that make sense? It's bigger than I'm used to.
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12-22-2012, 01:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Yeah, if you get wrapped up in the upright for a while, you'll have similar issues w/ the EB. "I can't believe the F is right there." |
12-24-2012, 08:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Downingtown, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Anonymatt Yeah, if you get wrapped up in the upright for a while, you'll have similar issues w/ the EB. "I can't believe the F is right there." | Yeah. I have to keep playing both.. and start checking TB regularly again.
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04-08-2013, 09:41 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Boston, MA | | | Hey man, still playing? |
04-08-2013, 09:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by afzoomie67 I go to school like 45 minutes from my house in Wyndmoor, PA. | LaSalle? |
04-08-2013, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: E.Sussex UK | | | Great! It's always good to see a new double bassist in the works.
My first bass was given to me by my art teacher. I'd begged him for it for years and then one day I wrote a letter pretending to be the bass (you know, 'my heart yearns for the sound of music', 'if i had a heart it would have split in two, being made of wood', that sort of thing) and he came back and said 'you can have it'! I was so excited I carried it home that day (only half a mile but it didn't feel like it!!!) and I haven't stopped playing it since! It was a real dog, cracked neck and heel, splits everywhere, everything detachable missing, but after some love and care I finally got started in the world of double bass. I'm never selling this bass, it kick-started my passion for my two greatest loves (bass and lutherie).
My point is, if you want it bad enough, go get it!!! I waited about a year for mine but it was so worth it! An EUB just wouldn't have been the same.
Good luck with your journey,
Joe |
04-08-2013, 10:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Boston, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by josiah goldfish Great! It's always good to see a new double bassist in the works.
My first bass was given to me by my art teacher. I'd begged him for it for years and then one day I wrote a letter pretending to be the bass (you know, 'my heart yearns for the sound of music', 'if i had a heart it would have split in two, being made of wood', that sort of thing) and he came back and said 'you can have it'! I was so excited I carried it home that day (only half a mile but it didn't feel like it!!!) and I haven't stopped playing it since! It was a real dog, cracked neck and heel, splits everywhere, everything detachable missing, but after some love and care I finally got started in the world of double bass. I'm never selling this bass, it kick-started my passion for my two greatest loves (bass and lutherie).
My point is, if you want it bad enough, go get it!!! I waited about a year for mine but it was so worth it! An EUB just wouldn't have been the same.
Good luck with your journey,
Joe | Great story  . And to your last point(s), I couldn't agree more. If you want something, go after it. (I need to be reminded of that sometimes too...) | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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