[78-L] Use of double bass in dance bands

[Mike Harkin]

No instrument is truly 'easy'  -not if you're doing it right.  Tho' it's
probably actually easier if you _are_  doing it right than if you're not.
A talented musician can make it sound and look easy, such that an ordinary
member of the public might think, "Mnyeh, with a little practice I could
do that."  UNTIL, that is, the T.M. does something that leaves the know-
ledgeble with their jaw on the floor, whilst impressing even the ignorant.

Speaking of tubists, you tube has oystein baadsvik doing carnival of venice
and a czardas that sre mind-boggling....

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Thu, 10/25/12, Don Cox <doncox at enterprise.net> wrote:

> From: Don Cox <doncox at enterprise.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Use of double bass in dance bands
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 6:31 PM
> On 25/10/2012, Erwin Kluwer wrote:
> 
> > I actually think it has more do by the introduction of
> "swing" rhythm
> > requiring quick one to every beat notes... which are
> hard and
> > exhausting to do on a brass instrument... less so on a
> (plucked)
> > bass....
> > 
> When Spike Hughes got interested in jazz, he decided to
> learn the string
> bass because it was the easiest instrument in the band to
> master.
> 
> I doubt he would have thought the same about a brass bass
> instrument.
> 
> Regards
> -- 
> Don Cox
> doncox at enterprise.net
> 
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