Recent content by bassboy70

people just practice. do what works for you.

basically you just plan out what spots you need to to work on the most in a piece and just focus on those spots until they feel better or you get bored of them. it is not good to just run the piece over and over. also break the stuff you need to work on up and play it using different rhythms or...

thanks! my philosophy is Quality over Quanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALWAYS!

you misunderstood me. anyone who tries to learn a new piece in one practice session is out of their mind unless it is extremely easy. my point is that you select certain sections and work on them until they feel better. Time limits are a waste. so you set aside 20 minutes for an excercise? what...

but also dont forget it is most important that you get better! what ever one must do to get better was he or she must do. Being a drill sargent to yourself is not my idea of fun! An idea of what you need the most work on is what you should work one while also doing a bit to maintain what you...

Breaking your practice time up into certain amount of time is not very benificial because then if after a certain amount of time one has not completed what he-she wants to then the work has now been wasted. It is more efficient to break your our practice time up into goals such as: I want to...

yes it should be smooth while combining the elbow and fingers. When talking about playing on a certain string, we say we are on a certain plane of the string. Each string has a plane. Example, when playing on the D string, the elbow is a at a certain spot. When we move to the G string, the elbow...

In my opinion, the ultimate answer is also both depending on speed. For example, in the the Dragonetti bass concerto opening (A) would be the correct answer while in Beethovens 5th symphony before the trio where we have the C minor arpeggio, we would use example B. B would be for moving across...

I am a junior string bass performance major with Dr. Hans Sturm at Ball State University. When practicing, I often times think that people get too carried away with how much they have to do therefore neglecting what really needs to happen. 1.I play one hour of scales every single day...