Double Bass New technique

[Marc Piane]

So Eric Hochberg, great Chicago pianist Larry Novak, and I were hanging during a break at my gig the other night and we were (jokingly) talking about using capos when playing things in unfamiliar keys like our strummy-strummy guitar friends. We then had a brainstorm (I think Larry sparked it). What if we just play in one position and raise and lower the endpin to adjust for key. Brilliant!!!

 

[Mike Goodbar]

Are you saying there is more than one position?

 

[Marc Piane]

Indeed. With my new technique there won't have to be. I'll call it the '7 minute abs' method. TM Marc Piane Industriez 2010.

 

[bejoyous]

I heard somewhere that Irving Berlin could only play in one key on the piano and had a contraption made to move the keyboard left or right to change key. A capo for piano!

 

[rusag2]

Does anyone know any luthiers that can install frets on my rosewood fingerboard?

 

[Les Fret]

Maybe for vibrato you can find someone who moves your bass up and down really fast. So you can hold your fingers in place.

 

[Marc Piane]

I've got it. We'll make it like a barber's chair. You can raise and lower it by pumping with your foot or hitting a release and when you want vibrato you can just pump it quickly. TM Marc Piane Industriez 2010.

 

[Paul Warburton]

 

[Marc Piane]

I'm pretty secure in my sexuality but I think I'd have trouble reaching down and grabbing that thing...

 

[Jake deVilliers]

Jesus, a giant Bigsby for DB...Hey BIGGUS, are you going first?!

 

[MR PC]

Good ego booster.

 

[boylebass]

We had a sub on guitar last Saturday night and he called a Monk tune I had never heard or even heard of... It was in Ab minor, yep 7 b's. (Bridge was Gb-Cb, if that helps anyone identify the tune, if anyone cares)

I told him that if he ever wanted to play that tune again, we were going to play it in G min or A min, his choice. Maybe I just need to stick a guitar capo in my bag and hand it to him for that tune.

=on another note, some friends were playing R&B upstairs, I went up on break and heard 'em play a wicked version of an old Ohio Players tune "Skin Tight". When they came downstairs to hear us, we were playing "Milestones' (the Miles modal version). On the bridge<where PC pedals the A> I quoted the funky bass line from "Skin Tight" and got a funny grin=

 

[johnz]

Green Chimneys - it's good for practicing your intonation

 

[boylebass]

Yup, it was Green Chimneys. You're right, it is a great example of a song to practice intonation. I still would rather 'capo' it up into A minor...

It's also an example of 'practice what you preach'. I expect my students to practice their major and minor scales in all 12 keys, so I suppose I should do so myself. Then I might say 'Cool, A flat minor, I was just practicing that scale last night'.

Or I might tell the sub "We are not playing in Ab minor because I cannot play it in tune."

 

[SplitNick]

Green Chimneys is great. Some of the early recordings are so open also, so you can get away with a uuuhm...uhhm...dissonant note or two.

 

[Marc Piane]

Who was it that said Monk could make a concert grand piano sound like and out-of-tune upright?

 

[Treyzer]

Who was it that said Monk could make a concert grand piano sound like and out-of-tune upright?

Dunno who said it but with your's and Eric's new bass invention we should be able to play any tune anywhere anytime. Now that we've got playing in tune solved, what about playing in time?

 

[Marc Piane]

An electrical type device to stimulate involuntary muscle contractions?

 

[Treyzer]

An electrical type device to stimulate involuntary muscle contractions?

Cattle Prod? Taser? Can we use it selectively? On drummers? When you're teaching?

 

[fdeck]

What are keys? Some hifalutin theory? This should be moved to the "orchestral technique" forum.