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Whereisitnow? Several months ago there was an article somewhere maybe pointed to here in TB , that outlined a process for approximating a microphone sound with piezo input using Darkglass Element import-IR function, much as a ToneDexter does. GarageBand records two-channel clips of one's piezo...

Megathreaders - Getting ready to purchase an slb300 or possibly 200 , trying to make a summary of pros/cons/costs. I have travel coming up and would like to take an EUB to keep up daily practice, mostly arco, but if it's really not gonna work for that, no point in purchase. All performing or...

1/Stand for basses for us. Mostly 2/stand in other sections. Most people in my section have 3 ring binders and letter sized pages! I'm amazed at their dexterity, guess 1/stand allows having stand close enough to see. I use an iPad sideways and a pedal.

Thanks to all for a useful discussion. @Ed Fuqua and @Huy Nguyen, absolutely intonation and a strong front of the note is essential and deserves daily practice and constant attention. Like Alex Hanna said in a master class in '24 and on YT , "you have to prove every note". Making me think I...

Does anyone use an amp in a smaller playing context when they could play without one to allow lighter touch and more consistent time ? A few months ago I changed bow approach and got a much better sound. Unfortunately also developed elbow tendonitis, made worse in pizz . After stopping entirely...

Yes absolutely but he was also a composer and a conductor.

The Guardian obit was , as usual for them, excellent. One note that my first teacher made forty (ulp, five) years ago made and confirmed by my present teacher last Tuesday : in the four hundred year + history of the double bass, there have been four unquestioned greats : Dragonetti, Bottesini ...

At the convention, make sure you go see the Build-a-Bass project, and talk to them. I see TB has a booth, probably staffed by @Chris Fitzgerald . Be sure to stop by ! I'm missing this time but I bought mine there in '19 and am very very happy with it.

Taking : The new methods of practicing especially Molly Gebrian's new book and website and Josh Turknett the Brainjo guy. And taking my years of PT for guidance in the movements of playing, applying them with new practice methods. My own version of @Chris Fitzgerald 's Bass jitsu. Having...

Both, he writes ornate guitar arrangements with often three moving voices, though the trio was with flute so for those mostly rhythm. Songs are Plantxy Irwin ,Rights of Man, the Orphan, Little Peggy’s Jig, 12-15 assorted total. His mandocello looks like a big arch top guitar with surprisingly...

One of my projects is with a guitar and mandolin-family player who loves his mandocello and tried for a while to use it for his duo and trio arrangements of Irish tunes . The double courses and high action combined with only ok projection and so-so results with amplifying made it difficult to...

Ms. O'brien And she has made available notes to her students. This book is great for orchestral players, very very useful. Orin O’Brien Double Bass Notebook (Also available from other non-Am***n vendors). @rogerbmiller , do you still have your notes ?

Several places in Chicago will have a wide range of instruments to try, someone will have the Hipshot. Even if you are some distance, make the trip and squeeze them all into one day, call first. Sonksen Strings A440 Chicago Bass Works

Glad people find it useful . Molly Gebrian has been on the faculties of three universities, now at the New England Conservatory teaching this material.

There are modern and very recent guides for improvement and methods of practice which combine both the neurology of learning , research into practice in other disciplines and application to music. Personally, I got stuck a couple years ago with daily practice, was sitting down and practicing...