Recent content by HudsonTD

@David Potts, Fair point. I have worked through the first 70 pages in the past (slowly, and at moderate speeds) to build up fingerboard confidence, and am mostly using the book at this point to work through the various bowing techniques in the later half. It is those exercises that I am more...

Whenever I'm working out of Simandl's Method book, I always take note of the lack of Tempos for any of the exercises (at least in my edition - Stuart Sankey). I usually try to work out what I believe the intended tempo marking would be for each exercise, but it would be great to see what other...

Watched this commercial, and it reminded me of every day of my life. Safety + Tubas & Cellos - YouTube Pretty sure it probably means a cello, but it's still funny to hear.

@David / Jordan: Thanks a lot for the list of repertoire to work on / towards. I'll be sure to start working on some of those. @Fergus: Love the tips, and the story regarding playing in the BBC. @Simandl Fan: Good idea, I'll be sure to do that in the future. Many thanks for all the advice from...

Hi there, I've been wanting to start working at excerpts and I was wondering which ones would be appropriate for my current level. (I'm doing the Capuzzi concerto right now) so about Grade 8 RCM. Thanks for any tips, HudsonTD. :bassist:

Yeah, thats a good point. Working on it in both registers doesn't hurt, as it's good practice for thumb position. I've just been working at it down the octave, but I'll definitely try practicing it later up the octave.

Hi there, I picked up the Vivaldi Bass sonata's yesterday as something to work on over the summer, but immediately stumbled upon the question, "should they be transposed down an octave? or left in the original range?" as I know that they were originally for cello. Any help or suggestions...

That actually helps a lot fergus, thanks for being so thorough. It's coming along quite a bit better now.

I believe I have found what I need. Thank-you everyone for the many options.

Yeah, thanks. The bass I own right now is from there. I'm just looking for an upgrade, and they don't keep any basses beyond student models. But I didn't think of asking them about other stores that might, so thanks for the advice.

Hi there, I'm a student looking to buy a bass that will get me through college but I'm not sure about where good violin shops are. I'm willing to travel to Vancouver to look at shops there, but if I could first take a look on Vancouver island that would be great. So does anyone know any good...

I'm a german player. Although some of the idea's I've been given do transfer over. At the moment my biggest concern is with getting the Spicatto's to actually sound right. And I may be just doing it wrong all together, but I find that if I really let the bow bounce while doing the triplets, when...

Thanks, I'll give that a try right now. I'm still working out how to make a spicatto sound right, so that could be part of the problem. But for now I'll just try breaking it down like you said.

Hi everyone, I'm still a fairly new classical bassist who's been working on excerpts lately but I've run into a bit of trouble with the excerpt of scheherazade I'm working on. http://finearts.uvic.ca/music/current_students/_pdf_2010/Audition_PDF/DoubleBassAuditionExcerpts2010.pdf The...