How To Play Upright Bass with 2 Fingers
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- [Please forgive the awful sound on the video here - I had some obvious technical issues]
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Matt discusses fundamental approaches to playing with 2 fingers on the plucking hand.
00:00 Intro
00:57 Welcome
01:26 Basic technique
03:57 How to practice the exercises
07:16 Alternating fingers basics
07:23 [Play with me] Exercises 1-3
09:39 String Crossing
09:43 [Play with me] Exercises 5 & 13
12:58 Connecting the hands
13:45 [Play with me] Exercises 15-16
15:33 Building dexterity
16:00 [Play with me] Exercise 17
17:30 [Play with me] Exercise 18
18:26 Scales
18:39 [Play with me] Exercise 19
20:13 [Play with me] Exercise 22
21:49 [Play with me] Exercise 24
22:29 Example of practice sequence (on Exercise 6)
26:13 Closing thoughts
Cool. The most important thing as you know is the sound whereas I find myself often walking with the 2 fingers together on the quarter note. All your exercises do work with that approach as well. Thanks.
Yes exactly - thanks for watching and commenting!
What a great tutorial! This helps immensely with my study of the double bass. When I began about four years ago, every thing I read said to always play with one finger, or with the two conjoined on one string. Coming from an electric bass background I found that very confusing. Especially since everything I played involved the first two fingers, and felt more natural to me. Anyway, thanks again for your help in unlocking this wonderful but often overlooked instrument.
Glad to help! Thanks for watching!
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This is great, really filling a void here. Thank you.
I'm glad! Thanks for watching. It's especially helpful to hear today, since yesterday I had a little bit of a troll who complained about the stuff not being advanced enough.
Thanks Matt!
Thank you!
Great lesson! I'm starting upright bass next month, this will be really helpful
Very glad it will be of help. Thanks for watching
I sometimes use three fingers.
In Taiwan there’s this saying in Chinese: 一個巴掌拍不響, which translates to “You can’t clap with only one hand.”😂
Haha! That’s great
merci beaucoup pour cette exercice
Vous êtes les bienvenus ! merci d'avoir regardé la vidéo!
Thank you sir! I ordered the Ray Brown book and can't wait to dig into it!
Thanks Dave! I saw that - will be sending out tomorrow first thing!
@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki thank you again!
This is a huge lesson! Thank you!
You’re welcome! Thank you!
So…when you get a blister on one of your plucking fingers - how long until you use that finger again>? Had my bass only 3 days so far and my middle finger couldn’t take it as well as the index
Well, it’s a bit of a grey area. I’ve seen quite a few folks on Reddit arguing about the best approaches. It’s been so long for me personally that I can’t remember exactly what I did other than definitely playing through discomfort. But maybe that doesn’t exactly mean “pain”. I’ve seen (and I think I did this too) advice to carefully pierce the blister and cover it to speed the process. I think one can’t avoid some discomfort, but definitely don’t kill yourself. If both fingers are messed up, try to take a break. Maybe practice Arco for a little while? And also I’ve found that liquid bandage can help quite a bit in this scenario. I hope this was somewhat helpful. Ultimately you want calluses to develop…
The room is too "live"... Maybe some acoustic tiles would help? Or better mic placement?
I had equipment issues that weekend. The remainder of the videos should be similar to the earlier ones that have better sound