Double Bass leaps in Bottessini Elegy

[Stan Haskins]

How do you all finger the arpeggio in the second half of the Elegy? (I think it's bar 25, the uneven rhythm that goes g--gbdgbdg).

I'm keeping the Zimmerman bowing where the first three notes are taken as a down bow, the next four as up, the last harmonic is down.

To me, that bowing suggests taking the first three notes across the EAD strings (the G and B on the A and E string) then shifting to thumb for harmonic d and g, etc . . . ; however I'm having more luck now playing the last seven notes straight up the g string. Except I can't get the first low g to be long enough . . .

Any thoughts?

 

[jdapodaca]

I play this whole thing on the G string. So. Starting on the first harmonic G:

+ 1 3 + 1 + 1.

That works if you slur the first three, next two, and split the top D and G.

I also used to play it:

+ 1 3 + 1 2 3

And slur the first three, next three, seperate the top G.

There are a lot of different fingerings for the G Maj. arpeggio, a lot of it has to do with how you want to phrase it and how comfortable you are with different apreggio fingerings. I'm interested in how others have handled this, too.

 

[reedo35]

I usually go with the first one jdapodaca listed, but I have heard it done at least 4 different ways- Streicher, Katrama,
Karr, and Meyer all do it slightly differently.

 

[Dave Whitla]

first g open, save your bow

all the rest on the g string: + 2 3 + 1 2 3 (unless I'm thinking of a different passage!)