http://doublebassblog.org/2007/08/virtual-master-class-track-mahler-1-solo-candidate-4.html double bass news, stories, downloads, podcasts, and more! Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:11:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://doublebassblog.org/2007/08/virtual-master-class-track-mahler-1-solo-candidate-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-957 Anonymous Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:20:00 +0000 http://doublebassblog.org/?p=1482#comment-957 rhythm is your biggest issue (although I agree with the previous comments too) Listen back and try to tap along - you'll see that you cut beats short. This is huge in an audition because that is exactly what the committee do!! rhythm is your biggest issue (although I agree with the previous comments too) Listen back and try to tap along – you’ll see that you cut beats short. This is huge in an audition because that is exactly what the committee do!!

]]> http://doublebassblog.org/2007/08/virtual-master-class-track-mahler-1-solo-candidate-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-948 Brian Roessler Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:43:00 +0000 http://doublebassblog.org/?p=1482#comment-948 A couple suggestions:<br/>- work on making your vibrato more consistent. It comes and goes, speeds up and slows down a bit during the excerpt<br/>- leave a small breath between the phrases as Mahler indicated<br/>- check the rhythm in the bars with the dotted-eighth sixteenth phrase. A couple suggestions:
- work on making your vibrato more consistent. It comes and goes, speeds up and slows down a bit during the excerpt
- leave a small breath between the phrases as Mahler indicated
- check the rhythm in the bars with the dotted-eighth sixteenth phrase.

]]> http://doublebassblog.org/2007/08/virtual-master-class-track-mahler-1-solo-candidate-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-947 Anonymous Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:41:00 +0000 http://doublebassblog.org/?p=1482#comment-947 nicely in tune, work on that shift from the f to g. a little bit too loud, but that could have been the location and room you were in. try not to put so much vibrato on all the notes, this solo shouldnt be so lyrical. possibly go for a slight increase in vibrato as the notes get higher, starting with very minimal and going to the end of the notes OR virtually no vibrato save the longer notes such as the d, a, and d but only at the very end of the phrase, and barely at that nicely in tune, work on that shift from the f to g. a little bit too loud, but that could have been the location and room you were in. try not to put so much vibrato on all the notes, this solo shouldnt be so lyrical. possibly go for a slight increase in vibrato as the notes get higher, starting with very minimal and going to the end of the notes OR virtually no vibrato save the longer notes such as the d, a, and d but only at the very end of the phrase, and barely at that

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