Double Bass Standing to the side or behind

[Jeff Bonny]

I like that article. When I was studying with Rick Kilburn he told me I needed to get a stool. When I said I preferred standing he told me there was no way I could practice the 6-8hrs a day I needed to standing the whole time. I got a stool that week....Rick scared the crap outta me. Like you Chris I ended up preferring to sit and have done for many years with both the double bass and bass guitar.

Something else to consider are some Alexander Technique lessons. I've recently gotten back to AT after having had a few lessons six or seven years ago. The detailed body awareness it teaches is doing me all sorts of good for the arm pain I've been experiencing lately.

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Something else to consider are some Alexander Technique lessons. I've recently gotten back to AT after having had a few lessons six or seven years ago. The detailed body awareness it teaches is doing me all sorts of good for the arm pain I've been experiencing lately.

Alexander is wonderful. I've also learned a lot about healthy posture as relates to playing a number of musical instruments from studying jiu jitsu and aikido for a number of years. Everything flows from the center where the power is, and as long as you can find a way not to cut off or impede the energy from the center, it is possible to undertake just about any physical endeavor in a very relaxed way using a small percentage of the available force of the large muscle groups instead of a large percentage of the available force of the small ones. IMO this is the key to healthy physicality in just about every realm i can think of. I look forward to learning more about this from yoga in the coming years.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

Not on Staten Island, but Joe Solomon 212-741-2839

 

[jasonrp]

You play rockabilly. You stand ON the bass not next to it

 

[Slaphound]

Thanks Ed.

 

[Jeff Bonny]

You play rockabilly. You stand ON the bass not next to it

I did a rockabilly gig for several months and was always terrified some drunk pompadour mother****** in ridiculously cuffed jeans and a hotrod shop bowling shirt was gonna try standing on my Pfretzschner.

Go study with Joe Solomon.

 

[jasonrp]

I've always had the urge but never the guts to stand on mine.

 

[John F Hebert]

Not on Staten Island, but Joe Solomon 212-741-2839

I've been taking with Joe Solomon now for 3 weeks. I'm still working on his way of playing with the left hand using the forearm to push fwd and then play the notes kinda like a sideways piano. Its only been 3 lessons so I'm not expecting to get it already, but I think I'm having trouble with it none the less. I've found one video online of Joe playing and sure enough he practice what he preaches.

 

[Huy Nguyen]

I've been taking with Joe Solomon now for 3 weeks. I'm still working on his way of playing with the left hand using the forearm to push fwd and then play the notes kinda like a sideways piano. Its only been 3 lessons so I'm not expecting to get it already, but I think I'm having trouble with it none the less. I've found one video online of Joe playing and sure enough he practice what he preaches.

I think I found a similar video and I totally get it as it looks like the very same approach I'm trying to achieve. You can find a spot where the left hand is totally relaxed and nimble but still bearing a lot of pressure, and none of it requires any strength. Joe seems to be crazy relaxed as he plays.