Double Bass Question on this extract, pls!

[Andy Mopley]

Is the top line implying the DB plays a f note, and if so is it the f on the g string?? Why not write it that way, then?
(Is the second DB playing a gb, again on the g string too? and same question)

Thanks all.

 

[David Potts]

It looks like the high F above second octave D on the G string and the G flat below the octave G, also on the G string. Still a dischord but perhaps softer(less strident) than if the notes were next to each other. But look at the descriptors !! This is blood and guts music and these are sound effects, not music? What is the piece?

 

[Wasnex]

Is the top line implying the DB plays a f note, and if so is it the f on the g string?? Why not write it that way, then?
(Is the second DB playing a gb, again on the g string too? and same question)

Thanks all.

As far as which string these notes are written on...the notation does not specify this, but based on the range of the notes, I would assume they are best played on the G string.

Not an expert on reading cleffs...but aren't these two lines in different octaves? My assumption is the treble cleff F is an octave higher than the tenor cleff F.

The circled note in the image below is a 4th above the open G string.

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[User4843936]

This looks like that bit from “Psycho” with various parts coming in a major seventh away from each other. As David says, the first note is just below the second octave G on the top string, and the G flat is just below the halfway harmonic. The two notes are just shy of an octave apart from one another.

 

[Andy Mopley]

Thanks everyone - Psycho suite it is, so David, you had part of it right! ;-)