A bit on the unconventional side for this forum, I suppose, but here I am with my NS Design Omni EUB:
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Double Bass YOU - on youtube (DB forum thread)
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Since this thread is popping again, might as well join in! Here's a recording of one my favorite pieces I've written so far with a really great group from my grad recital last year. Feel free to check out the other few things I have up on my channel.
This is really good. The arco on Threnody for Empathy is great as well!!
Today is the Birthday of the great Syd Smart, he played on Sam Rivers Black Africa among many other things. I copied this link to post on FB. It was a house concert in Cambridge with no amp:
Here is the Rivers album:
Here is the Rivers album:
Thanks Damon! This was around the time I started to get more serious with the bow. While I don't miss it, bowing those Animas that were on my bass at the time in that video was a fun challenge.
Here's the trio performing Horace Silver's "Peace"... a fitting sendoff to another 2 weeks of the summer jazz workshops.
That is great version of a great tune and a great bass solo!
just uploaded a few bass cam videos to youtube. This was at my previous residency at the roosevelt hotel bar.
Here are some piano trio videos that came out very well. I use the Upshot with a volume pedal here and it works great:
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A few weeks later at a festival at the same venue:
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A few weeks later at a festival at the same venue:
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Here is a gig I did with my band last Sunday featuring Andrea Motis, the wonderful singer/trumpet player from Spain. Warren Vache on trumpet, Steve Ash on piano, Tim Pleasant on drums. She called this tune Sugar, I didn't really know it but I think I figured it out haha. Juzek 7/8th bass with Damian D gut G, Gamut Lyon D, Superflexible solo A/E, Yamahiko (both sides) through the Bose PA.
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Just a lame question?
Where are you getting those musical ideas, sounds, musical sketches?
They come from all over the place, the history of improvised music plus my own take on it. I tend to put forward small but fully formed ideas rather than unformed bits that are hoping to be "developed".
I listen to the other musician or musicians and try to find places for my material!
In "normally-flowing" music, you have some template of Form, Development, Variations, all those harmonic, melodic, compositional devices, etc...
Do you pre-establish some Form with other musician/s.
How do you even plan (or know) when to stop the track?
We don't pre-determine form, but, we choose who we play with, the "better" you are at this stuff, the better access you have to musicians who make good decisions.
The endings seem mysterious at first, but, they just end. the ideas finish and it is over. We don't always end together!
First time I try doing a bass/double bass arrangement. I also tried working on editing not easy.
As a wise man once said: It's not me, it's my kid, and I pay for all her stuff.
Still, it's a thrill watching her progress over time. I strung together a few 30 second clips (proud dad style) from a gig last weekend in New Hampshire. Had a great time.
Still, it's a thrill watching her progress over time. I strung together a few 30 second clips (proud dad style) from a gig last weekend in New Hampshire. Had a great time.
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Final days of playing upright in this group (now all electric w/ drums per mgmt). We used to do this song faster and I'd play arco, but this is the kind of transitional arrangement.
