{"id":12980,"date":"2024-03-11T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T11:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12980"},"modified":"2024-03-12T01:21:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:21:25","slug":"music-double-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12980","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Double Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BknAqNPkbFk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well\u2026 this is, to my mind, a positive development. A sign I might finally be emerging from the months of depression precipitated by the several less than welcome developments of the last year and a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m watching videos on bass playing technique, tips, tricks, etc. I absolutely adore the double-bass. And I already owned and then had to sell one. I\u2019ve been contemplating doing the same again. And I may still have to. But Lord knows I don\u2019t want to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to play the damn thing! And I want to start learning and practicing, with it and on it, in a methodical manner. Videos such as those I\u2019m linking to in this post exemplify the kinds of things I want to start doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zGoIwYGBJGY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Interesting!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the two above videos, first we have a lesson on using the thumb. Up until now I\u2019d never even thought to use my thumb on the Bull Fiddle. I\u2019ll come back to this in a minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second video, with Rufus Reid, looks at the idea of playing on just one string. This links back to the thumb video, funnily enough. How and why? Because staying on one string inevitably makes one use the entire length of it, to get the full range of notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reid refers to the territory beyond where the neck joins the body of the bass as \u2018no man\u2019s land\u2019! It\u2019s easy to understand what he\u2019s getting at. Cole Davis\u2019 video, and his use of thumb, are all about opening up no man\u2019s land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/02hPnMmI-UM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Brady Watt talks to Ron Carter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also learned of the Simandl method,* which dates back the late 19th C. I\u2019d not even heard of this before. What I\u2019m enjoying about all of this, is a return of desire and motivation. After aeons of amotivational depression, I\u2019m beginning to want to do stuff\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to round off this post, the living legend that is Ron Carter. A young bassist, Brady Watt, who I\u2019d not heard of before, spends some time with perhaps the greatest &#8211; certainly the most prolific and widely recorded &#8211; upright bassist of them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time to enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Find that <a href=\"https:\/\/gym-mous-peiraia.att.sch.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Simandl-New-Method-book1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well\u2026 this is, to my mind, a positive development. A sign I might finally be emerging from the months of depression precipitated by the several less than welcome developments of the last year and a bit. I\u2019m watching videos on bass playing technique, tips, tricks, etc. I absolutely adore the double-bass. And I already owned &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12980\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Double Bass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-3nm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12980"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13036,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions\/13036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}