String Muting Technique for Double Bassists - Lesson with Geoff Chalmers
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
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String Muting Technique for Double Bassists:
If you want to play with clarity and great sound, then it's essential that you learn how to mute the strings that you are not playing. In this beginner's double bass lesson I talk you through the essentials of right and left-hand muting to help you get started.
This topic is often overlooked by bassists and it makes a huge difference to your playing so make sure you are using all of the different approaches I describe to mute your open strings.
I hope you enjoy the lesson and if you have any questions or tips on muting I would love to hear them. All ideas are welcome, so please join the conversation and leave a comment below the video.
Cheers, Geoff
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New lesson day. I've got another preview from my upcoming beginners course. This one's on muting and playing with clarity! I hope you enjoy it, cheers Geoff :-)
Good stuff as usual!
My new 'Beginner's Double Bass' course is due out later today. It's over 5 hours long with 43 video lessons, here's a preview of one of the lessons.
Cheers Geoff
Good video, do you also mute with your right hand ring finger when soloing (playing fast run mainly on the G string) ? (like what your doing around 4:00)
I'm having some trouble maintaining a good alternating speed with index-middle if I keep it on the A-string. I also tried to "lower" the right hand in order to have the flesh between index and thumb (don't know how to call this sorry) mute the lower strings, but it also doesn't feel comfortable when alternating very fast. I also tried to move my thumb to rest on lower strings (like movable thumb in electric bass technique), but it seems pretty unconventional and the movement of the thumb kind of breaks the regularity.
I've tried to watch closely the solo positions from NHOP, and I don't see him doing any muting on the lower strings (he obviously used his third finger for plucking, his hand shape is quite "round" above the strings, his thumb stays at his anchor point)... I'm kinda puzzled by this, how come his A-string is not resonating (E-string can be muted by the side of the thumb, D and G are muted by the plucking fingers, so it boils down to A-string problem).
It's a really hard thing to work out without seeing you play, but muting is definitely a right and left-hand technique. All bowing requires only left-hand technique....so I would work on both and at higher tempos and I expect the right-hand issue is something to do with the angle of your hand/thumb as you cross onto the higher strings which is stopping you being able to mute the lower strings...but it's too hard to say without seeing you play.
@@DiscoverDoubleBass Thanks for your answer, I tried to make a small video of my right hand if want to have a look: ua-cam.com/video/KIvLNltWzWU/v-deo.html
Great video! I am not a double bass player, but I am an aspiring arranger and composer. I am trying to transcribe The Rolling Stones’ song “Just Wanna See His Face”, and clicked on this video hoping to get clarification about a technique I heard in the song. If you go to 0:11 in the song ( ua-cam.com/video/EymLq0htbL8/v-deo.html ) you will hear a sort of muted pizz. string noise that is a double bass. Are the strings here actually being muted while being struck? If so, what’s the correct notation for this? Thanks!