Recent content by Gigel

The technique shown in the clip with fingers 2 and 3 together but playing 1-2-4 with the 3rd finger supporting the pinky is how we are taught here in Eastern Europe aswell.

I guess I'll just keep playing until I hit a point where I feel I can do the music justice even if I do kind of torture it along the way, I guess it's for a greater good. It helped reading your opinions on the matter, if there are any others keep them coming and thank you to all.

An idea has been rolling through my head these past few days and I wanted to ask the good people of TBDB of their opinion on this matter. Especially since many on here are from the classical world and highly trained. My question would be as basically a self-taught player at least up until now...

Just so I don't start a new thread. I've been meaning to ask a question, my stance actually feels pretty stable as in the bass balances nicely, and I don't feel the need for the left hand to hold it up almost at all, and my right hand is just about as free, but I do think there's a problem...

I've never thought of it but my E string always sounded a bit less focused and I always chocked it up to be just the way the bass sounds. But after reading this I've just noticed, it was the lack of the "pop" I get from pulling into the board, I just tried this with the E string by slightly...

Indeed I did find what you were referring to, I should read up some more :)

Just curios why the vagus? It doesn't really have anything to do with hearing from my knowledge. By electrical stimulation maybe you would activate the parasympathetic nervous system, but why would that help? Perhaps you meant the vestibulocochlear nerve?

Happy Birthday to a true Talkbass legend! You and Jamerson make Ampeg truly seem like the magic sauce of tone. :hyper:

Thank you for the explanation. The physics involved in producing sound on the double bass are quite a nice read.

This is all a very interesting discussion, could you please elaborate about the bridge end not being fixed? I know it moves, but I thought it was from to side to side and it did not affect the vibrating length of the string.

"Musicophilia" by Oliver Sacks had some interesting things to say about perfect pitch. One thing being about a study in a chinese conservatory (I don't remember the exact numbers, but if you want I'll check, and write them exactly) in which they found something around 80% of the students...

"Composed: The art of Zen bandleading" - by Charles Mingus

Strange you asked about that bass, as soon as I saw the picture I thought, "I think I've seen that somewhere today" I searched a bit, and indeed I did: http://stringemporium.com/basscafe.htm They are selling a bass with those F holes and they're saying: "The sound holes, are actually referred...

As TSkills pointed out in that quote from Aaron Saunders, I too believe the term came from string instruments in which you "stop" a note and not "fret" it. So in my mind it makes perfect sense to call it a "double stop" because you're stopping two notes at once hence.. double stop. And I've...

I read in a book called "Musicophilia" by Oliver Sacks (One of my favourite books btw.) a chapter in which a study was conducted on students in a chinese conservatory about the prevalence of perfect pitch. Results showed that something like 70% of those inrolled there who started musical lessons...