Double Bass Sit when playing

[godoze]

if you take your thumb off the back of the neck when your standing, the bass falls down and goes boom. thats more my point

Not if your right leg is bearing the weight of your body and the bass is leaning into you...

 

[anonymous0726]

I think DonO will concur that the leg trick isn't the healthiest, either. You can find balance with the bass so that the weight is at least zero, if not tending to fall forward of you let go of it.

 

[Savino]

not to be argumentative at all DZ, with all respect, doesnt shifting your weight to one side of your body twist up your back after a couple of hours?

 

[Savino]

sorry, thanks ray. me type not to fast

 

[anonymous0726]

Makes your right foot sore as hell, too.

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Just wanted to add that this Gomezzing, 40-something Girlie Man with only one tooth discovered about a year ago that sitting in "neo-cello" position with both legs up on the highest rung of the stool and the right knee resting inside the C-bout does something magical to align my spine and has completely freed me from all back pain ever since. Or perhapth I should thay "ever thince", in deferenth to my thingle tooth. Yee-HAW!

 

[Savino]

ever try a bent endpin chris?

 

[Savino]

i mean chrith

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

ever try a bent endpin chrith?

Thertainly not. I notith that olny folkth with conthiderable gutth tend to uthe thothe effectively...in my experienth, at leatht.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

snif...I love you guys.

 

[Savino]

rabbath and garcia-fons. not exactly hot dog eating champions.

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

rabbath and garcia-fons. not exactly hot dog eating champions.

Point taken. Still, my experience with them has been with Rufus Reid and Lynn Seaton. I've tried playing both of their basses, and they slide right off my scrawny little midriff. I'll just continue to sit and drag a stool to the gig in the back of the haytruck, thank you very much.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

if you take your thumb off the back of the neck when your standing, the bass falls down and goes boom. thats more my point

Reminds me of this old club date bass player of my acquaintance. He would check his watch every time he played an open string.

 

[Savino]

the time is now 5 pm eastern standard time.

 

[Monte]

Reminds me of this old club date bass player of my acquaintance. He would check his watch every time he played an open string.

Hey, I resemble that remark. Particularly on these freaking tux wedding gigs with singers I seem to be doing constantly since Champian is back in NYC.

 

[godoze]

I think DonO will concur that the leg trick isn't the healthiest, either. You can find balance with the bass so that the weight is at least zero, if not tending to fall forward of you let go of it.

Do you mean to tell me, Circus Barker that there is another way ? A healthier way ?

The very foundayshuns of ma religun are shakin' at the thought.

 

[anonymous0726]

Do you mean to tell me, Circus Barker that there is another way ? A healthier way ?

The very foundayshuns of ma religun are shakin' at the thought.

I'll show you when you get here.

 

[Don Higdon]

I think DonO will concur that the leg trick isn't the healthiest, either. You can find balance with the bass so that the weight is at least zero, if not tending to fall forward of you let go of it.

In my lessons with Linda McKnight, in the middle of a piece, Linda would say "Stop! Let go of the bass!" If I were properly balanced, it would be relatively upright, a la Gary Karr.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

I have a recording session this morning, and two gigs back-to-back tonight. I'm bloody well sitting down.

If that makes me a girly man, so be it.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

Gonna wear a grass skirt?