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08-20-2001, 12:05 PM
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08-20-2001, 02:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Oslo, Norway | | | Yes - the bow should be held perpendicular to the strings! |
08-21-2001, 05:52 AM
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08-21-2001, 06:56 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: In your basement. | | | Yes I would have to agree, he is really holding the bow wrong for a consistent tone. He also should step back about 1 or 2 steps and let the bass lean on him a little bit. He is never going to be able to finger notes if he is holding the bass up. |
08-21-2001, 07:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Midcoast Maine | | | It's also a basic rule that the endpin shouldn't extend above your forehead. |
08-21-2001, 07:20 AM
| | | | There is nothing wrong with this bassist's technique.
It is a rare but well-known method of playing the double bass known as doing a "69". |
08-21-2001, 08:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | You people are absolutely killing me. I posted this thinking it was painfully, painfully obvious, and yet absolutely no one, NO ONE!, has yet to mention that his freakin' pinky is not on the bow. HELLO?! Are you people blind?!?!?? |
08-21-2001, 08:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Oslo, Norway | | My god, you're right... 
Well, it would be easier to spot details like that if you hadn't posted the picture upside-down! |
08-21-2001, 10:01 AM
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Forget bowing technique - where does he think his left hand thumb's going? |
08-21-2001, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Somewhere Over the Barline | | Quote: Originally posted by jazzbo
You people are absolutely killing me. I posted this thinking it was painfully, painfully obvious, and yet absolutely no one, NO ONE!, has yet to mention that his freakin' pinky is not on the bow. HELLO?! Are you people blind?!?!?? | That's bow? I thought it was some kind of batton or poker; not necessariliy an inappropriate piece of equipment when using the 69 technique.
Has anyone seen the Levi's commercial with the kid playing the bass auditioning for the school talent show or something? Seeing this kid with a bass that could really pass for a HS bass and German bow, coupled with the sound really brought back some memories! |
08-21-2001, 02:24 PM
| | | | Again, there is nothing wrong with this bassist's "69" technique.
The only problem I see is the fact that his bow is not in the right position with the f-hole. |
08-21-2001, 02:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Quote: Originally posted by Bass Guitar
The only problem I see is the fact that his bow is not in the right position with the f-hole. | That was wrong!  |
08-21-2001, 02:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Rural Kansas City | | | He should bend at the knees while lifting the bass violin to chin position.
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08-21-2001, 09:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Blue Ash, Ohio, USA | | | *soundin' like Grandpa*
You kids and yer crazy ideas...
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09-27-2001, 08:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Warwick, RI | | | Thanks for the great picture to replace the boring Gollihur "bass in the garden" shot for my desktop wallpaper! |
09-27-2001, 06:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Bellingham, WA | | | That's how i started.
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09-27-2001, 09:49 PM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | Quote: Originally posted by PortraitofTracy
That's how i started. | PORTRAITOFSUPERLOCRIANGRAY,
If you started like that on a BG you must have had pretty short legs at the time...how old were you? |
09-28-2001, 05:26 PM
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Good one Fitzwallo.........
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09-28-2001, 06:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Bellingham, WA | | Quote: Originally posted by Chris Fitzgerald
PORTRAITOFSUPERLOCRIANGRAY,
If you started like that on a BG you must have had pretty short legs at the time...how old were you? | You didn't think i was serious, right?!!
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09-28-2001, 11:48 PM
| | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | Quote: Originally posted by PortraitofTracy
You didn't think i was serious, right?!! |
Only as serious as JAZZBOJANGLES was in starting this thread. I may be old, but I'm not senile YET. 
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