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I've been playing in a local Youth Orchestra for little over a month now, but I've been invited to go with them on tour to Karlsruhe, Germany! It's super cheap for a week, too. Anyhow, they've somehow managed to find me a hard case for my battered plywood rental bass, but I was wondering if...

Hi, I'm a British A-Level student and have been playing for around year, and I'm loving it - I play in a Youth Orchestra as well as doing jazz stuff. For this past year I've been using an unexceptional but decent plywood Artia Excelsior bass, and I'm just about starting off on the journey of...

Hi, I'm playing the Prelude from the 1st Cello Suite, Sterling Edition, and I'm struggling to get a nice sound when slurring notes across the strings and skipping one string (ie, missing one out - in the first few bars for example) The string I shouldn't be playing usually makes some ugly...

Hi, I've just bought the Cello Suites (Sterling Edition) and am somewhat confused by some of the writing - my puny pianist brain can't handle it, they're probably stupid questions. 1) Harmonic/Open notation - I know harmonics are notated with the perfect circle above a note but in the...

Hi, I have rented a (plywood) Boosey & Hawkes 'Artia Excelsior' bass for the past year which serves me pretty well and whilst by no means a great bass is not a piece of junk - my research suggests it's Czech and from the late 60s to early 70s. I have recently started playing in a small Youth...

Hi, I've recently started playing in a local Youth Orchestra and it's going fairly well - I think they're just excited to have a double bassist - but some of the parts really confuse me: most (but often not all) of the notes are written in Octaves, in ways which would be vastly...

Hi, I'm actually a Double Bass player and have just ventured over here to The Dark Side to ask you all a question... I look at a fair few bass tabs so I can play them on my double bass (often use guitar pro so I can get some nice familiar sheet music) and have noticed that more often than...

Hi, Any tips on getting good speed (ie, repeated notes) in the right hand? Piece I'm doing requires it and if I play it at the proper tempo I tend to lag and/or miss notes in certain sections. Thanks! P.S. Ages ago I posted a thread about buzz on my 4th finger - bigolbassguy and Paul...

Hi, I'm usually a double bassist but came over to the dark side of talkbass :hiding: to ask about these pretty cheap kits - I'd be fairly interested in taking up BG as well. [This invalid link has been removed] Does anyone have any experience of these kits? If not, what do they look...

Hi, I'm a newbie to the double bass (a bit over a month) and have had 5 lessons but unfortunately had to stop them so now am practising without a teacher for now. I used school double basses for a while but they were 1/4 size and hence were pretty rubbish for me, so at the minute I'm...

Hi, This is my first post on TB but I've been lurking for a while now - here goes. I'm a 16-year old student in the UK and I've been learning the DB for about a month now, but have over 9 years of experience of playing classical (and more recently jazz) piano and am currently around maybe a...