Double Bass What are you working on?

[fergus currie]

This is my first post on the forum so, hi everyone!
I've been working on tuning and vibrato in my left hand and getting a smooth bowchange in my right (of course)! I'm preparing some solo pieces including a lot of Bottesini which I'm relearning after 20 years! I use to play quite agressively when I was younger but now I want to get more lyricism and a fluidity in my playing.
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[mcnaire2004]

Well, I've got miles to go. I am working on scales

 

[anonymous12251111]

Mozart 35, 4th movement...getting it ready for an audition.

 

[ToeJamFootball]

F Major and Bb Major.

 

[jonster]

Moto Perpetuo by Paganini, on 5-string Tobias. I learned it many years ago and never get tired of it!

 

[fergus currie]

Is that not an electric bass guitar?

 

[chicagodoubler]

relaxing everything, producing an evenly warm and beautiful sound, mechanical positions ala Rabbath, and... do we ever finish working on Mozart 35?

 

[fergus currie]

Bach! Allemande from 1st suite in G at pitch. Actuallty it feels like it was written for the bass the way the harmonics help out in the broken chords!

 

[otis_thick]

Right now, I am mixing the Parker String Quartet and the 5 finalist from this years APA Classical Fellowship Awards. I did not mic the cello on the first day and now I have a balance problem to work out.

 

[punkjazzben]

At the moment I'm revisiting Rabbath's technique, and really trying to get my body relaxed and moving freely, and working on using the natural weight of my bowing arm.

Repertoire-wise I'm looking at Bottesini's Elegy and a Zimmerman arrangement of a Rachmaninoff cello sonata.

 

[CTakacs]

a couple of things:

using my back, posture (low center of gravity), zimmerman bowing book for string crossings (building speed and clarity w/ spicatto), playing things musically and not like a robot, left hand articulation (pound and pluck), and playing in tune of course (scales, arpeggios, and bach reeeeally slow)

 

[coldsalmon]

I'm working on my intonation by playing scales and arpeggios over low-frequency sine waves. I made a track in Audacity that cycles through all 12 keys, 32 seconds for each. I play scales at 4 beats per note at 60 bpm. It really helps a lot, and it's so incredibly satisfying to hit a perfect 5th. Eventually I'll probably start skipping around and playing more complicated patterns.

 

[MDEbass]

Rabbath, Rabbath, and more Rabbath....Book 3.