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Double Bass Well-Tempered Clavier, prelude in C minor
- Thread starter Alexis Duntov
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I like the steady pulse when you play it. It is danceable. You practice it with a metronome? Really good!
The downside that you sometimes play too fast to really show the phrases. Some leaps are difficult with intonation. You may want to slow down some passages by using a variable bpm (difficult => slower). Or slow down the metronome pulse.
The downside that you sometimes play too fast to really show the phrases. Some leaps are difficult with intonation. You may want to slow down some passages by using a variable bpm (difficult => slower). Or slow down the metronome pulse.
Your left hand - shape and fingering - are good. Intonation is not perfect, but good and close.
Channeling my teachers: Your right wrist looks rigid. Work on the "jellyfish" movement.
Channeling my teachers: Your right wrist looks rigid. Work on the "jellyfish" movement.
Most people would recommend getting your thumb more along the side of the neck as you move into the neck block.
I need to try this out myself, but watching your right arm, I can't help but think you could probably make it sing a bit by using a little more bow and a little less weight, at least in some of the notes.
"Jelly fish movement" sounds like a nice nifty expression which says a lot.
Can you tell me precisely what this is, as I know my bowing technique is not there yet.
It's a term I use to describe the flexing of my wrist with the German bow. Both of my German-bow teachers insisted that I learn it, and if you have volume 1 of Simandl's New Method, there are photos of the right hand (Gary Karr's hand, I think!) in down-bow and up-bow positions.
I don't have it down perfectly, and this video I just made only shows my hand without the bow, but the idea is that your fingers trail the heel of your palm; the frog is seated in your palm on upbows and leaves it on downbows. It's impossible to do correctly without a) the "jellyfish" wrist flexion and b) your elbow being extended away from the body.
Jellyfish movement
I don't have it down perfectly, and this video I just made only shows my hand without the bow, but the idea is that your fingers trail the heel of your palm; the frog is seated in your palm on upbows and leaves it on downbows. It's impossible to do correctly without a) the "jellyfish" wrist flexion and b) your elbow being extended away from the body.
Jellyfish movement
Jellyfish movement is the perfect description. I’ll post another take of this soon. It’s become part of my everyday practice and it’s getting better.
