Recent content by JNbass

I am looking at a Warwick Corvette 6 string that has the discontinued Nordstrand Neo Blades installed, along with a Seymour Duncan 3-band preamp. I am mostly an upright player and am not familiar with pickups & electronics. What are your thoughts on these changes, do they make the instrument...

I wanted to put together a book of the bass parts to J.S. Bach's violin, keyboard, and Brandenburg Concertos, and also the Orchestral Suites. I kind of remember there being collections on disc, of complete bass parts for certain composers (not the Oscar Zimmerman books). Does anybody know if...

You could try experimenting with the contact point on the tip of the thumb, and also maybe the bow is too high up in the fingers. Try having the bow stick on the second knuckle from the top, and pronate into the string, leading with the 1st finger. The 1st finger is the point of contact that...

Your fingering works, but pairing a shift with a string crossing felt awkward to me. Here is another possibility, Start in ½ pos., 2141-1431-1421 2142-2142-1T31 31T3 T2T2 4 You could start on the A string, play every thing in position, and shift for the 5 beat, and then follow the fingering...

Maybe practicing your rhythmic sense away from the instrument would be beneficial. There is the rhythmic solfege of Southern India called Solkattu. There are two books, "You can Ta Ka Di Mi This" by Todd Isler and "Solkattu Manual" David Nelson that are great. You recite the syllables while...

How you approach Bach is really dependent on your personality, technique, experience, and how far into the piece you want to go. His music really has endless possibilities for nuance, interpretation, and understanding At one side, you could just learn the notes and go by intuition for phrasing...

I didn't know you could just take the divider out of the cue case. Thanks for the suggestions!

The simple box style cue case all seem to have a divider to hold each half of the stick in place, do you know where to find one without the divider?

Does anybody know where to get a case for a 32 inch german bow? Thanks!

My point wasn't that going up the E string is clearer in fourths, it is that in fifths you are forced to play up the C string for these notes, you have no other option. If you want to play G A B or F# G A, slurred with vibrato, you are forced to play on an extremely thick string high on the...

Yeah these studies are difficult, I am actually going to go through some easier etudes first, here is the links to the first 2 keys from the Bille method, The 57 Storch-Hrabe are nice too, and and bit easier. The Mengoli Orchestra studies are edited, so the markings are not by Mengoli. The...

Hi Matthew, I used a Thomastik Dominant set with a C, a solo F# tuned up, a D, and a solo A. The F# tuned up was too tight to match the C. Also, I did not like the Dominants, so then switched to the Red Mitchell Spirocore set. The spiro low C is about the brightest string you can get, and it...

I tuned in fifths for about two years, using cello fingering adapted with pivots. The resonance and sound on my bass was improved. Certain keys sounded amazing, like D or G major, but other keys were not ideal, Try playing in tune in Db, Ab, F#, B, in 5ths, it is not fun! For F# you have to be...

Hey, thank you! I just used what was laying around, a Zoom H2, a usb cable from the dollar store, and the zoom is hooked up to my laptop running audacity. There are tutorials on youtube about how to use the Zoom as a usb mic. I place the recorder directly in front of the bridge, about as close...

Hey all, I recorded these with a new bow. Study 5 is with 3 day old spirocore starks, no. 6 is with 6 year old starks, if anybody wants to hear the difference.