Learn How to Play Double Bass: Lessons for Rockabilly : Basic Boogie Woogie: How to Play Rockabilly Upright Bass

[greasertom]

he is the egg McMuffin of bass players

[peoplewillown]

i play the bass guitar and now my music gcse teacher whants me to learn double so thanks for your help

[Greekmustard666]

i came here to learn how to play white chapel on the drums...i'm so confused

[Justinwhat1]

@Greekmustard666 lol



[worldcreations]

man i LOVVVVVEEEE the sound of his bass

[drgonzito613]

i wanna do some fast ass psychobilly shit!!!! hell yeah

[TheDirtyMongGoose]

i just started playing stand up for my highschool and man i suck, can any of u give me some pointers

[LowEndDream]

Get a teacher.

A good one.

[JamieMallikaRay]

I can. what do you need help on?

[TheDirtyMongGoose]

well i got the hang of thngs now, but what would u say is the best way to aviod getting blisters? cuz iv gotten like 6 on the same finger and its starting to annoy me

[hoppercar]

sounds a lot like the bass line johnny cash used a lot

[elavate7]

how do you play these things with no frets?????

[patabaterista33]

you need to have a feel for where the notes are gonna sound good, with practice your muscles tend to remember the place where the notes dound good, so you only need to see when you do a big jump on the neck

[lankycharlie]

i have recently started playing double bass, i put dot stickers on the side of the neck, like on a electric bass (3rd, 5th 7th 9th etc..) just so i can work out where the notes are, now however, i hardly use them! i do it by ear and feel.

[elavate7]

well yea, i play bass, so is double bass a little similar?

[lankycharlie]

yes and no, the way you play it is totally different, hand positionings etc.. however if you can adapt well, it does have some similarities to electric bass (eg, layout of notes, scales etc..), and it will benifit you to have played electric 1st (in my opinion,) , and as i have been playing fretless bass for a while, the change was that much smoother.

but it will kill your fingers, and takes alot more strength to play double bass, but well worth it =)

[elavate7]

yea, cause i wanna play bouble bass soon that why i asked

[lankycharlie]

yea i would say go for it, and stick with it for a while, even if you feel you arer getting nowhere,m it will pay off in the end =)

[elavate7]

thanks, ill keep that in mind

[c0al]

carefully

[slayerrules114]

LMFAO R u serious? gimme a break nothin needs frets, its just a way to show where to play. I knw a few upright bassists put color coded tape on the side of the fretboard

[synth77]

no the fret is where the you should put your finger but on guitars and basses

you put you figner before the fret and the fret presses against the string making the sound it makes it much easier

but it just dosnt work and would ruin the sound

[synth77]

i mean it dosn't work on double basses

[ybsquare123]

dude lol ive played this before... he was out of tune on a few notes and hes not even doing pizz in the right spot... lame

[feelingitphobe]

Ken Steiner is an awesome Bass player. I played several gigs with him last year.

[PenguinsSayWii]

Oh, and you have horrible pizz technique. Do you know how to play your instrument? That is /not/ how Jazz players do it.

[PenguinsSayWii]

Are you kidding me? I play double bass and I can be louder than the entire cello section on pizz.

[DeRauser]

real shitty basssound!

thats no slapping too!

thats crapping!

oh man, get rid of that beard!!!

[swazia73]

yeah right

[spottie999]

Look at him upside down. It looks like a cool mohiccan.

[sonnyboyUK]

LOLOLOLOLOL

[Chopper1995]

dude! nice beard