Double Bass 5th Sarabande -- The Perfect "Warm Up"

[garrett2]

Renaud Garcia-Fons has said he uses the 5th Sarabande as a warm up. I had never played it before -- the 5th Suite scares me -- but it is the perfect warm up. Hauntingly beautiful, moves from High F above the octave to first position C, all sorts of weird wonderful lines with different finger combinations, makes you play slowly and smoothly. Here's a version with Bilsma's markings added.

And if you have a low C you can play it as written and have fun with the super low notes.

 

[Mark_T]

Thanks for drawing my attention to this! I’m trying it out both down an octave and at pitch. At pitch there are some interesting fingering challenges bit the slow speed makes it manageable, so it’s a good project that I can work on in small chunks.

 

[garrett2]

Working out the fingering at octave is a lot of the fun!