Should have joined the orchestra back in high school when I had the chance. Couldn't see dragging such a huge instrument around. Now that I am retired, I am determined to master this wonderful bass voice in all music. It has become somewhat of a badge of honor, as it reminds me of what I could have done and renews my commitment to get it done.
For bass players, I think it's good to try both French and German bow. I played French for years without trying German, and never could get my bow level right and would always tend to curl up my wrist...switching to German really felt natural to me, even though it always looked a bit odd to me until I tried it and adjusted to it.
I was the opposite, when I started playing bass I played German bow, up until my first year of high school when I tried French and really liked it. That also made it easier when I started to learn cello later on haha
What a delight to see the double bass section playing plum passages; such passages I didn't even realize were going on as just listening to a recording, playing in an orchestra- possibly missed even looking through the score.
All-Star Orchestra You can also tune a Double Bass in Fifths (C, G, D, A plus a High E for the 5 String Versions & a Low F for the 6 String Versions eventually) cause Wikipedia said that the intonation will be better in that tuning.
"cello can play many more notes" per position. In this case, 'many' = 1. 😂 (i.e. four notes per string in first position) Stretches on cello can actually be quite intractable out of the first position as well, and playing melodies usually involves a lot of shifting and a lot of planning to find a good hand position. It's like bass in that way. We can squeeze an extra note out using thumb position, which I guess bass players also do? In any case, though the cello is tuned in fifths, the scale length is more than twice that of a violin, so we don't have the same kind of agility, though we have a little more than the double bass, apparently.
Gerard Stroh!!! All Star Orchestra!!! I Play the Double Bass and I Have A Story To Tell*** I Started Playing Piano & Guitar When I was 10 Years old and I Was Taking Viola Before That and Not Getting Nowhare and Before That When I was 11 years old My Piano Teacher Shirley Richman Was Going to Have A Baby so My Piano Lessons Ended but About Some Months Later I Started Teaching My Self Piano!!! And Back to the Viola story I was Not Getting Nowhare and My Teacher Said You Are Taking to long so You Are Playing in the Orchestra and Time Past and I Said to Don Peterson who was my String Teacher I ask Him I wanted To Start Taking Lessons on the Double Bass So I Started Bass Lessons after School and He Was impress of my Studies on the String Bass So He Let Me Take the Double Bass for the Summer and In September I Started School and I was Playing the Double Bass in Orchestra and I was Around 12 years old and Playing in the Orchestra!!! Later on That Year I was Playing Some Piano at this Time and Don Peterson Was Testing My Ear and He Found out that I have Perfit Pitch and one thing Led to another and I was Helping Don Peterson With His Violin Students Help to Play Twinkle twinkle Little Star and He someone to Play Piano and I Was Watching Him Doing it on Piano and I pick up on that so I was on the Piano and I did it After School and I also Teach Myself the Bass Guitar and Reading Notes on Bass Guitar & Double Bass and when I went to High School I stayed Friends With My String Teacher Don Peterson for Years Ontil He Past away and anyway I Was First Chair on the String Bass and I Was Also Good Friends With My Sweetheart Orchestra Friend Janet Myers Who Was one of my Best Friends and She Played Violin and Piano and We Played in my Orcherstra Class and I Played Double Bass about 6 Years and at the Spring Concert I Was Playing Lead Guitar and at one of the Spring Concerts We Have I Played Lead Guitar and I Did the Lead of the Song More than A Feeling and I Had Another Guitar Player and A Bass Player and that Song Was By Boston!!!! I Also Played Bass Guitar in Lab Band and My Band Teacher Was Joe Foster and I also Took Sanphonic Band and I Played the Double Bass and Joe Foster was Impressed on my Bass Playing!!!! When I Left High School I was Homesick Because I had A Heavy Crush on Janet Myers She Was Like Family to Me and I had to Give up the Double Bass for 40 Years and I Stilled played Bass Guitar and Piano and the Church organ and Lead Guitar and Mandolin and Some Violin Some what and I started Playing at Saint Bernards Church and I Still Played at the Church and 10 Years ago Main Street Music Had A Stagg Stick Electric Double Bass and Got Back Playing the Double Bass and 10 later I Got Me A Acoustic Double Bass With A Bow and one Year Later I Found My Good Friend Janet Myers on Facebook and She Was Married and Her Last Name Was Mathews and We Started Talking on Facebook and She is Retired But She Still Plays Violin and Piano and I send Her Some Pictures of My Acoustic Double Bass and I Tell Her How I am invalved Playing at Saint Bernards Church and She Was Happy For Me!!! I Also Have another Dear Friend that I met A Main Street Music and Her Name is Wendy Goulart and I Known Her for 35 Years and We are Good Dear Friends and what Happin when My Parrents Died we Cross Path and We started Talking again and When She Move out of Tracy and Have Not See Her for 10 Years I saw her I said Wendy is that You and She Said Yes and We Gave her A Big Hug and Starting E-mailing Each other and she New that I lost My Mom and Dad and We Talk about My Piano Playing and We Talk on line and She Said What Ever You Do Don't You Ever Give up the Piano you are Very Good at it!!! So I Told Wendy Goulart I made A promise to Wendy I Will Not Give up my Music so That Happin about 13 years Ago she is Dear to My Heart!!! one Note About Wendy Goulart We Use to Play Music at Main street Music and Became Best Friends to this Day and So That is My String Bass Story and Now I am in the Market For A 4/4 size Double Bass with A Solid Carved Top Double Bass and I plan to Get A E String Bass Extension for Both of my Acoustic Double Basses!!!! That's my Story of the Double Bass and My Music Story!!!! Bye From Gerard Stroh!!!!
You can't say that French basses are nasals It's fake. All the basses beetwen 1920 And 1980 are totally nasals in France, because of luthiers makers of doublebass were so bad (Quenoil, Mentec..) but If you knew Vuillaume bass, Bernardelle Bass, Jacquet Gand bass from 1850-1900, you couldn't say that. It's not correct to resume French bass to this period of makers. Unfortunately you seem never tried one of this bass. Sorry for you
"the bass is a very interesting instrument because.. um.. basses vary so very much.. uh they vary a lot" i love the bass player vibe lol
This guy is a legend too haha
Should have joined the orchestra back in high school when I had the chance. Couldn't see dragging such a huge instrument around. Now that I am retired, I am determined to master this wonderful bass voice in all music. It has become somewhat of a badge of honor, as it reminds me of what I could have done and renews my commitment to get it done.
These interviews are delightful and so educational for an amateur concert-goer like me.
For bass players, I think it's good to try both French and German bow. I played French for years without trying German, and never could get my bow level right and would always tend to curl up my wrist...switching to German really felt natural to me, even though it always looked a bit odd to me until I tried it and adjusted to it.
I was the opposite, when I started playing bass I played German bow, up until my first year of high school when I tried French and really liked it. That also made it easier when I started to learn cello later on haha
What a delight to see the double bass section playing plum passages; such passages I didn't even realize were going on as just listening to a recording, playing in an orchestra- possibly missed even looking through the score.
Its real interesting to see the basses on the left, behind the violins
^ The orchestra here is set up in orchestra pit style. Basses in the back left of the conductor, behind the cellos and first violins.
what passion, I wish i could play 😊
You can.....start slow and find a teacher...it is indeed possible for an adult beginner....
Amazing...inspirational
There are 5 String Basses too (I have one) w/ a Low B String & that bypasses the need to have that clunky heavy extension.
All-Star Orchestra You can also tune a Double Bass in Fifths (C, G, D, A plus a High E for the 5 String Versions & a Low F for the 6 String Versions eventually) cause Wikipedia said that the intonation will be better in that tuning.
Drink everytime he says "umm". Have fun!
I swear to drunk im not as god as you think
*Dies of alcohol poisoning* 😬😬😵😵😆😆
"cello can play many more notes" per position. In this case, 'many' = 1. 😂 (i.e. four notes per string in first position) Stretches on cello can actually be quite intractable out of the first position as well, and playing melodies usually involves a lot of shifting and a lot of planning to find a good hand position. It's like bass in that way. We can squeeze an extra note out using thumb position, which I guess bass players also do?
In any case, though the cello is tuned in fifths, the scale length is more than twice that of a violin, so we don't have the same kind of agility, though we have a little more than the double bass, apparently.
AMAZING!!!
Gerard Stroh!!!
All Star Orchestra!!!
I Play the Double Bass and I Have A Story To Tell***
I Started Playing Piano & Guitar When I was 10 Years old and I Was Taking Viola Before That and Not Getting Nowhare and Before That When I was 11 years old My Piano Teacher Shirley Richman Was Going to Have A Baby so My Piano Lessons Ended but About Some Months Later I Started Teaching My Self Piano!!!
And Back to the Viola story I was Not Getting Nowhare and My Teacher Said You Are Taking to long so You Are Playing in the Orchestra and Time Past and I Said to Don Peterson who was my String Teacher I ask Him I wanted To Start Taking Lessons on the Double Bass So I Started Bass Lessons after School and He Was impress of my Studies on the String Bass So He Let Me Take the Double Bass for the Summer and In September I Started School and I was Playing the Double Bass in Orchestra and I was Around 12 years old and Playing in the Orchestra!!!
Later on That Year I was Playing Some Piano at this Time and Don Peterson Was Testing My Ear and He Found out that I have Perfit Pitch and one thing Led to another and I was Helping Don Peterson With His Violin Students Help to Play Twinkle twinkle Little Star and He someone to Play Piano and I Was Watching Him Doing it on Piano and I pick up on that so I was on the Piano and I did it After School and I also Teach Myself the Bass Guitar and Reading Notes on Bass Guitar & Double Bass and when I went to High School I stayed Friends With My String Teacher Don Peterson for Years Ontil He Past away and anyway I Was First Chair on the String Bass and I Was Also Good Friends With My Sweetheart Orchestra Friend Janet Myers Who Was one of my Best Friends and She Played Violin and Piano and We Played in my Orcherstra Class and I Played Double Bass about 6 Years and at the Spring Concert I Was Playing Lead Guitar and at one of the Spring Concerts We Have I Played Lead Guitar and I Did the Lead of the Song More than A Feeling and I Had Another Guitar Player and A Bass Player and that Song Was By Boston!!!!
I Also Played Bass Guitar in Lab Band and My Band Teacher Was Joe Foster and I also Took Sanphonic Band and I Played the Double Bass and Joe Foster was Impressed on my Bass Playing!!!!
When I Left High School I was Homesick Because I had A Heavy Crush on Janet Myers She Was Like Family to Me and I had to Give up the Double Bass for 40 Years and I Stilled played Bass Guitar and Piano and the Church organ and Lead Guitar and Mandolin and Some Violin Some what and I started Playing at Saint Bernards Church and I Still Played at the Church and 10 Years ago Main Street Music Had A Stagg Stick Electric Double Bass and Got Back Playing the Double Bass and 10 later I Got Me A Acoustic Double Bass With A Bow and one Year Later I Found My Good Friend Janet Myers on Facebook and She Was Married and Her Last Name Was Mathews and We Started Talking on Facebook and She is Retired But She Still Plays Violin and Piano and I send Her Some Pictures of My Acoustic Double Bass and I Tell Her How I am invalved Playing at Saint Bernards Church and She Was Happy For Me!!!
I Also Have another Dear Friend that I met A Main Street Music and Her Name is Wendy Goulart and I Known Her for 35 Years and We are Good Dear Friends and what Happin when My Parrents Died we Cross Path and We started Talking again and When She Move out of Tracy and Have Not See Her for 10 Years I saw her I said Wendy is that You and She Said Yes and We Gave her A Big Hug and Starting E-mailing Each other and she New that I lost My Mom and Dad and We Talk about My Piano Playing and We Talk on line and She Said What Ever You Do Don't You Ever Give up the Piano you are Very Good at it!!!
So I Told Wendy Goulart I made A promise to Wendy I Will Not Give up my Music so That Happin about 13 years Ago she is Dear to My Heart!!!
one Note About Wendy Goulart We Use to Play Music at Main street Music and Became Best Friends to this Day and So That is My String Bass Story and Now I am in the Market For A 4/4 size Double Bass with A Solid Carved Top Double Bass and I plan to Get A E String Bass Extension for Both of my Acoustic Double Basses!!!!
That's my Story of the Double Bass and My Music Story!!!!
Bye From Gerard Stroh!!!!
Where can I find the integral videos of these pieces made with the CSO? They are so well made!!
Livio Amaglio o
Can someone please give me the name of the song a 4:16. I would appreciate it a lot. Thank you
Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
The what?
3:28 - расширение диапазона вниз
why hold the bass if ur not gonna play??
He talks a lot but you can't find one single video of his playing a solo...!!
90% personal anecdotes
5% footage of orchestra
5% actual information about the double bass
Joel Quarrington would disagree quite a big cello in his department.
You can't say that French basses are nasals It's fake. All the basses beetwen 1920 And 1980 are totally nasals in France, because of luthiers makers of doublebass were so bad (Quenoil, Mentec..) but If you knew Vuillaume bass, Bernardelle Bass, Jacquet Gand bass from 1850-1900, you couldn't say that. It's not correct to resume French bass to this period of makers. Unfortunately you seem never tried one of this bass. Sorry for you