Bow Weight to Placement Ratio - Getting a Good Bow Tone
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- Not all notes on the bass are created equal - to play with a consistent sound, we must adjust our technique depending on where and what we're playing.
In this video, I'll show you how to get a consistent, even tone no matter where you're playing on the instrument.
If you enjoyed this lesson and would like more, download my Practice Guide
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In it, we cover:
•Foundations and Routines
•Identifying the Type of Practicer You Are
•Planning Your Practice Session
•Tinkering
•Slow Practice
•And How I Use A Practice Journal
I use these exact approaches with my students in my signature program, The Virtuosity Blueprint.
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This chanel is probably the most useful bass tips I've found on the internet.
I seriously needed this. I came from a woodwind background and started learning double bass in the middle of the school year in an intermediate class instead of a beginner class so no one ever took the time to tell me this. I'm moving up into the advanced class with only half a years of experience and this is going to help me SO much!
electric fretless bassist here ,your lessons are really useful.
Aw thank you! I'm so glad.
Lauren Pierce that last part sounded like saracasm
I think the part that helps me the most is when you talked about amount of bow increasing as you get closer to the bridge...I'm going to see if it helps my tone in thumb position. Thank you! Very insightful!
Thank you for posting these videos! I don't know what I'd do without you!
Great an very useful lesson. Excellent work Lauren! 👌🏻
Extremely helpful, thanks for posting this.
Thank you Lauren. So generous of you.
Louise Allerton I hope it helped :)
Thank you Lauren!
Dear Lauren, thanks a lot for helping me understand the relationship between string tension and the amount of weight I could put in! Which I didn't fully understand even as a master graduate...
I admire your work a lot! :)
Thank you very much. Brilliant video
Thank you for sharing this video! It is very helpful.😘
Excellent Lesson Lauren Thanks
Lord fauntleroy Thank you! Hope it helped.
Really useful Lauren! Thank you very much
Thank you for watching!
Thanks Lauren
Thanks so much! I've been considering placement and speed but I've been using an equal amount of weight regardless of position haha. These things always seem so simple in hindsight.
Lauren is great.
Thank you for advice!
Very clearly explained and argumented, as always. Very useful, thank you so much for making these videos available!
Two remarks, if I may:
(i) it would have been nice to see the bridge on the video, to be able to better see what you mean by "close to the bridge" (I was wondering if the vertical bow position on the string is always at the same ratio between active length and distance to bridge, if you see what I mean), and
(ii) I think I saw you use a collapsed (fourth) finger on the finger board a few times, while I seem to remember that you warned against that in another video.
Thank you I am really enjoying the lessons. If you would not mind though adding a few more demonstrations for my untrained ear so that I can hear the differences I am hoping to make.
Great!
My bowing sounds great on open strings. However, once I start bowing notes on the "E" string, I get squeaks, or it gets that dying cow sound. I'm wondering if I have the proper tension on the bow hair. You know what I mean?
era o que eu precisava!
Não estava entendo o porque que as vezes o som saía "embassado".... obrigado!
thank you. k
2:52 Gary Karr has entered the chat
Lol. I attended one of his master classes at UGA during my college days. So true! Too funny!
This was really helpful, especially the part about using more bow in the upper register closer to the bridge. Many thanks! Your bass also sounds pretty amazing.
corr.: Lauren MAKES the bass sound pretty amazing ;-)
Hey Lauren, I'm going through the open string exercises in Rufus Reid's the Evolving Bassist and while I have experience parking with the bow, I haven't done this much open string work (impatient before lol)....
Anyways, I'm finding that with Jay my open strings, I've got some wobbly sounds (but they don't sound like wolf tones). I've been trying to find a way to consistently get a good sound this way. Do you have any suggestions? Engelhardt with Jargar strings, if it matters.
Very good advice. Have you had any Laban training?
Hi Lauren, I'm jazz bass player, but want to learn playing with the bow. When I ascend a scale, my bow go closer to the brigde on every note I ascend? How I do that?
My used upright came into my possession with two coated strings (D and G). I think my bowing technique is proper but I sound pretty squeaky and inconsistent on those two strings. I sound decent so far on the E and A, which are uncoated steel. Is this because bows don't work properly on coated strings?
Those strings are probably for pizz and not for bowing. Slap bass players often use nylon and coated strings.
Looks like a jumbo cello she's playing instead of a double bass. Partly because she is positioned behind the instrument, as opposed to standing slightly askance to the side.
It would be helpful if the bridge was included on camera. Cheers, Dan
Not helpful when you play german bow
those dots on the fingerboard are toxic
7:16, I love the entire video and revisit it from time to time but this is a crucial point for all of us musicians with multiple choices/voices (the voices was a autocorrect but I like the analog tone wise) for the same note