Recent content by Bass Man Kirk

Have any of you experience playing with the Slap Happy Weed Wackers Strings-Synthetic Gut Strings. I just put a set on my upright bass. And the reason is, playing with the steel was causing me to pain in my hands no matter what I tried to correct my technique both with the bow, pizzicato, and...

well greetings, have any of you tried the slap-happy weed wacker strings. [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] I am going to tell you I love them, not can I do the typical rockabilly bluegrass slap doghouse bass lines with them. I also enjoy play jazz walking bass with them to get the real bass...

i am thinking of doing this myself so i do not have to kill my back any more since i have injured it some years back

i have been doing that on guitar, so i already have the concept, just crossing it over on bass as well

long time since i posted on the forum. But as I have been making the transition from being a classical bassist over to being jazz bassist for some time now. Last year while practicing with band in box one day, I finally got the idea of reading chord charts it was my ha ha moment. When I was in...

my teacher in college had learn the bow right from the start, i am so glad he did. and i continue to work on it.

actually i have played in the local civic symphony for a couple of seasons. and string quintets but it has been since 2012 when my exwife had convinced me to get rid of my hybrid upright bass that i have been without a bass. but since Christmas a couple of friends bought me a Czech Upright Bas...

I have actually found working on the Sanky version Simandle Book 2, as well as working out of the Oscar Zimmerman Bass Solo Book for working on my musicality on the bass, for working on those two books again since college is starting to pay off. For me the reason I work out of the Simandle Books...

I agree Mr. Kasper, I am going to continue on with my work on the Simandle Books, as well as my other Bass Books.

I know this is a Classical Bassist Forum, I also found Rufus Reed the Evolving Bassist is a good study even though it is meant for Jazz Bassist

thanks, i do have the Simandle etudes, have had them since i had made the switch from tuba to bass, and i use them every day for sight reading purposes. Also i do have the the two editions of the Simandle, the one by Zimmerman and Sanky. I prefer the later. since Sanky provides alternative...

thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. What I really need help doing is getting better tenor and alto clefs reading down to were my treble and bass clef reading is. Where they are second nature. I know where the notes are on the higher positions, and I do play trombone and tuba, but I cheated on...

HI everyone, it has been a while since I had posted on this forum. Last time I posted I was strictly a German Simandle bow play. but I had hook up with a teacher who in the 1940's had switched from the violin to double bass here in the Syracuse New York area named Joe Stagnita (now 94 years old)...