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

[Philip Carli]

I can say that brass instruments as a whole are much easier for amateurs to acquire the basics of than string instruments.  (I also play violin and viola) This is a general truism (with exceptions) that has gone from the invention of valved brass in the 1810s - from 19th and 20th century British miners' and factory bands down to school bands and orchestras to-day.  I have a lot of respect for school string teachers because they have the hardest jobs of making their students sound tolerable, and it wears on them something fierce.  Starting violin in 6th grade was frustrating, as the Suzuki system used stressed technique way over musicality; picking up Eb tuba, I was in the top elementary school band in a month, playing in the neighboring junior high school band a month later, and then playing in a pit orchestra a month after that.  I was eleven. PC
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] on behalf of Mike Harkin [xxm.harkin at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 3:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Use of double bass in dance bands

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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