Double Bass Best fingering AND bowing for this?

[Andy Mopley]

Thanks guys / girls...Currently using D and G strings, but the fingering I haven't quite settled on. For the bowing, I am finding works best if I do down for tied notes, and then up / up but again not quite sure it right, at speed.

 

[David Potts]

What is the excerpt,how fast, in two or four beats?

 

[Andy Mopley]

Hansel und Gretel, Prelude...in 2 ...and the bars after ff are the ones in question, David - thanks!

 

[Thomas Allin]

Played this some years ago. If I remember correctly I used to land on second finger on the F in bar 4 and first finger on the B (D string) in bar 5 and everything is in one handful without string crossings on the slurs.

 

[Les Fret]

I understand what you mean. These transitional positions can be awkward sometimes.

I would play bar 5 and 6 like this: (all on the G string except for first note) 4 1 1 4, 3 (harmonic) 4 4 1
Bars 7: 1 4 4 2 (all on G string and all four patterns the same)

bowing up and down all the way. Or one down two up.

 

[Les Fret]

One other suggestion if this is a faster passage;
Put your thumb on the B of the D string and play bars 5-8 without any shifting. Easier for intonation also.

 

[Neil Pye]

I understand what you mean. These transitional positions can be awkward sometimes.

I would play bar 5 and 6 like this: (all on the G string except for first note) 4 1 1 4, 3 (harmonic) 4 4 1
Bars 7: 1 4 4 2 (all on G string and all four patterns the same)

bowing up and down all the way. Or one down two up.

The fingering is exactly how I did it, I just checked the scan I sent to my section. The bowing was down-up-up

 

[Andy Mopley]

OK, thanks everyone - Neil, any chance you could PM a copy of the scan for this section?

 

[Neil Pye]

Only just spotted this - I'm at work now, and have a 2 minute turn around to get to a rehearsal tonight. I'll do it as soon as I get a chance