Double Bass Help!

[Andy Mopley]

Can someone tell me a) what the numbers / sharps and flats under the notes refer to and b) confirm the key it is being played in? refer links below

Thanks a million!

 

[mtto]

The numbers, sharps and flats are figured bass. Any note without a figure under it is assumed to be a root position triad. a 6 is first inversion (a 6th above the bass). A "#" means the third is sharped above the bass. If you play baroque keyboard, you have to be able to read this stuff the way jazz pianists today can read a lead sheet. If you are just playing the bass line, you don't do anything different than if the figures weren't there.

 

[mtto]

The piece is in D minor. Sometimes period instrument groups tune low.

 

[Andy Mopley]

Fantastic, mtto, thank you very much!