How to pretend you can play the upright bass, for electric bass players
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- I made this video for electric bass players who want to transition over to upright bass as a secondary instrument, outlining the tricks and techniques that have worked for me. It's not intended as a real proper guide for how to play it or a substitute for a real orchestral background, just the shortcuts I've used and the parts of learning that you can't shortcut, that I've worked on off and on over the past 17 years.
I play both upright and electric bass and one thing I realize is that you need to raise up the instrument so that you stand straight up and your bow will be right in between the bottom of the fingerboard and bridge, not at the end of the fingerboard because it helps the sound it becomes more bright and clear. Just a helpful hint, but I am very impressed that your intonation is very good for a standard electric player. keep it up!!!
This video was really fun and useful to watch! You are really chill and entertaining. You are super chill
Dan, You are sooooo "Da Man" for letting us in on this mindset. I've been looking at an upright bass for a new project we're working on. I think you just helped me "seal the deal" (for lack of better words). I know, you didn't explore every possible avenue, but, it was just enough without prattling on and on. THANK YOU for sharing.
~Pro bass player, for a billion years... Electric (that is).
very good advice! I did many of these things when I got my 1st upright after decades of fender bass, they work.
You're picking with the tips of your fingers (a la electric bass). On a vertical instrument you should grab the string with the side of your finger. The sound will improve 100%+
Agree, and thanks! That's one of the things I've learned since I shot this video 6 years ago, it's still a work in progress but I'm getting closer and closer to competency.
Been a pro bass player 4s and 5s and fretless for many years. Thinking about getting that same bass and learning. Love the sound/feel and want to get into upright jazz...Very encouraging video and just the right information.
Thank you sooo much!
MT
Cool video, enjoyed watching this a lot.
Enjoyed this thinking of getting an EUB, found you entertaining , good info and fun to watch
I think you'd like the Palatino, it reminds me a lot of the Eminence which I've tried but not owned.
I have the exact bass and love it, I used red pinstripe tape for my markers just as you dogs at fgabde and it works well. Thanks for the lesson
I follow the correct chord changes but with my own improvisational lines. Sure, there's a lot of bouncing off the fifth, but my transitions are a little more involved. What you did here is great for, as you mentioned, a starter upright player.
I’m so glad you bowed this I’m looking to buy one
I dont know what the swimming goggles are for but good playing.
They're for swimming, of course! And Thanks!
I should update this and fix the key, I've played a lot more upright in the past few years, more on a real upright and less on this electric and my technique is getting better. This is me on this same Palatino electric upright with Peter Rowan, Jason Crosby, Maria Muldaur, Jacob Jolliff from Yonder Mountain, other members of the Garcia Project, etc. ua-cam.com/video/g5NQDmJzIok/v-deo.html
Actually I loved the wrong key bass lines at the end of the video. Intentionally or not, gave the old bossa classic a fresh touch.
You can use a keyboard and wedge a guitar pick under a key it gives you a root note to practice intonation with.
Man, it was great all the way up to "Girl from Ipanema" (13:20), you are playing the tune in Eb and the recording is in Db , I'm surprised you can't notice it, but the rest of the band will, should correct that mistake, thanks.
Read the comments, I did notice but was too lazy to fix it.
@@danfcrea Sorry, I meant you didn't notice it when you were recording the video....hard for me to understand.
you play great.
Awesome
Thank you!
Your doing pretty good except for one thing. Your thinking and trying to play like an electric player! You play an upright backward!!! Electrics are amplified to you can start on the E string. Acoustic uprights register too low to be heard on the E. The upper strings will punch through better with an acoustic band, so you build your runs and riffs from the top down, not from the bottom up! That is totally foreign to electric players. We rarely work on scales and stick to perfecting arpeggios because that is where we walk! Toss in a few flatted 5ths, 7ths and the occasional 3rd and your good to go LOL! If you can play an upright with a bow, you have the wrong strings :) Flatwounds sound like crap and will eat your fingers!!! You got to get tough and put on either guts or supernils to get tone. If your not playing Classical, drop the flatwounds!
What i can see is that u need to raise it to be more comfortable an keep left hand finger close to the string you are raising those fingers to mush
How fast.can you jump im and play the upright i play electric and never played a fretless but i want go get an electric upright
i have that bass in black. hows your sound so clean and classic? pre amp or effects peddle?
Straight to an old Peavey keyboard amp that I got for free! 1x15" with horn, it's not much of an amp but that bass always sounds great. There's heat-shrink tubing around the piezo from the factory, I think that might have solved all the complaints people had about the earlier models.
I'm left handed, play electric bass right handed, but I was thinking of learning double bass left handed, would that be more challenging, or should I continue righty?
dont do it just use normal hand
Probably the easiest way is to use the same hands as you use for electric - they take different physical techniques but the brainpower needed for each hand is fairly similar.
Weird coincidence: both my dad and my SO are primarily lefties who each do a few certain things righty by habit. He's not a musician at all but she plays keys on a national-touring level and her right is still her stronger hand.
at 0:45 we can spot a cat in the background
You should first start by plucking right. your thumb should go behind the fingerboard if youre not playing classical
respectfully......girl from ipanema.....at the end of the video! the whole piece is in Db major. you're playing it in Eb! the whole way through! for that same fingering that you're using, you need to tune the bass a whole step higher. like A, E, B, F#. yeah, some people do that. OR! forget the fingering and just play the right chords, starting with Db major. (yeah, the sax starts with an Eb, but gues what? thats the 9th for Db9 chord). take care
+george bosnea You are 100% correct! That's the danger of believing charts over your ears, it seemed odd while recording but became clear upon playback. In the end I decided to be lazy and leave it, the wrong key doesn't really change the main point of the video, which was fingering and hand position. Someday maybe I'll chop that section out and re-do it.
Holy shit! And I thought I had a stroke! :D
Me too 😂😂😂😂