I have a hard time during lessons when playing scales with my teacher. Typically, his bass is facing me and I can hear him much better than myself. (I'm usually performing jazz, so I can hear myself clearly -- no competition from other basses, etc., unless there's a heavy-handed piano player!)
Thank you for your Tipps...I am a singer, love the double bass, and am a cellist as well...singers often have problems to hear themselves from the outside...I love singing with a microphone bc of that..but feeling, intuition, resonance etc can also help
What I do is while playing long notes I plug my ear with my left hand finger that is avaliable. The sound vibration transfers through the bone quite well for me to hear the intonation .
Just kidding, do you really play TWO basses trying to hear yourself?! When I hear "double bass" my first association is the SUB CONTRA bass, the huge one in that instruments museum. Isn't it about time, to stop calling the NORMAL bass a double one?
The origin of the term "double bass": the early function of the instrument was to double the bass line, typically by playing one octave below the cello. You're welcome :)
I have a hard time during lessons when playing scales with my teacher. Typically, his bass is facing me and I can hear him much better than myself. (I'm usually performing jazz, so I can hear myself clearly -- no competition from other basses, etc., unless there's a heavy-handed piano player!)
Thank you for your Tipps...I am a singer, love the double bass, and am a cellist as well...singers often have problems to hear themselves from the outside...I love singing with a microphone bc of that..but feeling, intuition, resonance etc can also help
You are so welcome!
Useful! Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
What I do is while playing long notes I plug my ear with my left hand finger that is avaliable. The sound vibration transfers through the bone quite well for me to hear the intonation .
Nice!
Just kidding, do you really play TWO basses trying to hear yourself?! When I hear "double bass" my first association is the SUB CONTRA bass, the huge one in that instruments museum. Isn't it about time, to stop calling the NORMAL bass a double one?
The origin of the term "double bass": the early function of the instrument was to double the bass line, typically by playing one octave below the cello. You're welcome :)
Instill a healthy sense of paranoia in your playing 😂 good tip though haha
Thanks!