Double Bass Tremolo Help

[rhaegar]

My daughter has an orchestra placement audition and is playing the attached piece. (I'd give a link, but TB won't let me.)

She has heard contradictory things about how to play the first four measures of the second line. I'm not a DB player, but thought that the horizontal bars indicated a tremolo. One bar means divide in half; so, play each 8th note as a repeated 16th note. At her orchestra camp, though, another string player said something different.

Thank you very much for your thoughts.

 

[Michael Eisenman]

I would play them as 16ths. Curious about what the other string player was thinking.

 

[Tom Gale]

My daughter has an orchestra placement audition and is playing the attached piece. (I'd give a link, but TB won't let me.)

She has heard contradictory things about how to play the first four measures of the second line. I'm not a DB player, but thought that the horizontal bars indicated a tremolo. One bar means divide in half; so, play each 8th note as a repeated 16th note. At her orchestra camp, though, another string player said something different.

Thank you very much for your thoughts.

They are 16th notes. It's a common notation.
Tom Gale

 

[rhaegar]

Thanks Michael and Tom.

 

[neilG]

That's from "Carmen". I hate that opera. But I digress, those are definitely sixteenths.

 

[PaulCannon]

My daughter has an orchestra placement audition and is playing the attached piece. (I'd give a link, but TB won't let me.)

She has heard contradictory things about how to play the first four measures of the second line. I'm not a DB player, but thought that the horizontal bars indicated a tremolo. One bar means divide in half; so, play each 8th note as a repeated 16th note. At her orchestra camp, though, another string player said something different.

Thank you very much for your thoughts.

Dashes are equivalent to the flags on note stems. In this example, there is already one flag on the stems, and one dash, so together they indicate 16th notes. Three dashes indicate 32nds, which you would typically take as a simple tremolo.

 

[Anton Avis]

My daughter has an orchestra placement audition and is playing the attached piece. (I'd give a link, but TB won't let me.)

She has heard contradictory things about how to play the first four measures of the second line. I'm not a DB player, but thought that the horizontal bars indicated a tremolo. One bar means divide in half; so, play each 8th note as a repeated 16th note. At her orchestra camp, though, another string player said something different.

Thank you very much for your thoughts.

One line divides the note length, but a kind of scribble through the tail represents tremolo. Tremolo can even be a note with many lines, but it's bowed so fast it'd sound like a tremolo.