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Double Bass Tips on how to best practice this please?

#21
If your whole section can just lay it down, then do it the best possible way. Totally get that. If I was playing on my own in a chamber orchestra, I'd do it right and put the work in to do it. If you're in a section full of amateurs of varying standards who want to enjoy making music, and look to you for a lead, you may want to pick the "easy" way and emphasise the down beats, just so they can get the job done without endless hours of practice which may or may not pay off, and may well put them off so badly that they never come back
 
#23
neilG said:
I've been playing in orchestras for a zillion years now and have never seen anyone play that Mozart passage "backwards". Must be a French bow thing <ducks>.
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No, it is equally valid for both bows, aruably more so for german. This was more or less the standard bowing for auditions back when I was in college. I know a lot of players who won jobs in the US with that moz40 bowing.
 
#24
It would have been weird back when I was in college. Although I play exclusively German, my teacher in school was a fairly good French bow player, and this kind of bowing for Mozart never came up. Maybe it's a regional thing. And please, nobody ever won a job with a bowing. :)
 
#26
Nobody ever won an audition with a bowing, but plenty of people have lost them! Besides, I really don't think we were talking about professional level orchestras here, were we? At the pro level, you use the best bowing to get the musical effect you want. At lower levels, a tidy result may be better than going for the "best" and ending up with a mess
 
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