Happy New Year from Guy Tuneh and Contrabass Conversations!
Jason thanks readers, listeners, and viewers for being a part of the Bass Blog and Contrabass Conversations in 2007, and double bass virtuoso Guy Tuneh (www.guytuneh.com) plays excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations.
01 January 2008, 8:13 am
Fantastic.
AMAZING.
BRAVOOOOOO…!!!
01 January 2008, 8:24 am
What a New Year!!
For all the people who think that bass players cann’t play first class music,
Maestro Tuneh play this Rococo with much more
love then most of the Cello players that i have
heard!! (& i heard some).
Cello players look ,listen and leran.
BRAVO MAESTRO TUNEH!
01 January 2008, 8:33 am
Jason, why did you do this to me?
after i saw this video i feel realy down…
i would never be able to play like this!!
this Guy is Outstanding,Amazing, Great…
Mannnnnn
but still, BRAVO.
01 January 2008, 8:39 am
Ha Ha Ha …
this is someone who is going to make some cello players realy mad.
Bravo
Bravo
Bravo Mr. Tuneh!
01 January 2008, 8:50 am
OMG…
This is Crazy!
who said that we bass players are stupid, or cann’t play solo?
This one can give some great tipps to cello players,how to play it so great.
Crazy….
01 January 2008, 9:04 am
I’m an Orchestra musion, a Cello player.
if you look realy good at this video, you cann’t realy see the fingers of this person, the camera is far away from him, so i think that he is not realy playing this.
good work at the AUDIO/VIDEO STUDIO!!
not more and not less!
nice try but i dont buy it!
01 January 2008, 9:51 am
Owhhh…….. ,
Now this is intresting:
“HARALD”, our Cello player, thinks that Mr. Tuneh is not playing on this video…. (other way to say that we are stupid ’cause we believe its him,or ’cause we think its great and we know that it is impposible/very hard to play).
Great HARALD!,
But,
still some one had to play this pease on bass,
but then why he should give the soundtrack to Mr. Tuneh?, or why not to perform this by him self, and to get all the Glory???!
Dear HARALD,
I saw Mr. Tuneh’s videos, i learned all of them,
i heard the Great interview to Jason’s Amazing
Podcast,
The only think i can say,
Maestro Tuneh is an Amazing Artist!!
did you get it?
An Amazing Artist!!!
And now sorry to make you sad,
but he is playing this!! sorry for you that you dont wont to believe in that.
yes, i know, for cello this variations are not easy and more then that, it is part of the great tchaikovsky competition,now, the fact that a bass player can play it, and so good that you think it could have been writen for bass
can make some people sad. (or very happy.!)
specialy if they are cello players who could never got the chance to play it or something like this.
Back to our issue,
for me Mr. Tuneh is a MAESTRO.
one of a kind!
finaly, the day that shows that some bass players can play better then the other instruments.!!!
BRAVO MAESTRO TUNEH!!
01 January 2008, 10:13 am
Oh.. ya baby !
this is just great!
for all the people who cann’t believe in it, eat your heart!
This is just great , i love it.
BRAVO TUNEH.
01 January 2008, 10:34 am
The Phenomenen begines where the Outstanding stops.
BRAVO FOR THIS OUTSTANDING PLAYING!!!
01 January 2008, 11:39 am
Why the Video is short?
I’d like to see more.
there are so many hard places in that pease.
i’m intresting how it looks on bass.
01 January 2008, 2:54 pm
What a Happy New Year!!
BRAVISIMO!!!!!!!
01 January 2008, 3:15 pm
Great to see that there are still some musions who like to take it to the limit!
to give every thing on stage.
its amazing how Mr. Tuneh does it.
for me its clear, he give his life for what be
believe. no compromis!!
to go on stage with this kind of pease, god
he is Amazing.
Well done Mr. Tuneh
you won a new fan!
01 January 2008, 3:18 pm
N.B – dear Migel (comment no.10), you can see more in youtube.
Thanks Jason for this wonderfull posting
and i’d like to wish you the same.
01 January 2008, 3:48 pm
I got to see the video in youtube, its Realy fresh, first time that i hear it like this,
and i gote say its intresting!
its realy not bad, i play cello and the idea in the 3rd
variation at the end: to take it slow as a Cadenz,
to break it to a Dramatic end, its just wonderfull give it personality. like an opera.
no Cellist is doing this,most of us are just playing it as we play.(maisky has his own way)
Gosh, Mr. Tuneh put on it a new fresh light,
some nice ideas, he was thinking about every note that he playes in that pease.
Great.
the first Var. is very fast, he playes it in Cello Tempo! but still with musical line!!
it looks so easy for Contrabass, but for Cello
not at all…..
still dont understand it.but one is clear;
i dont know how is he doing this… .
Tuneh is Amazing on away that can awake fear!!
(its not normal to play like this)
i would be more then happy to see all that concert video, to get some more ideas.
01 January 2008, 4:05 pm
Congratulations !!
Very Original, sounds good.
its f++king hard for Cello,
now, on bass, i dont know how he got it.
I’m intresting at the end, the CODA, how this
sounds on bass at the final Tempo?
He is realy more then one f++king
step a head!
(one more to give his soul the the devil)
01 January 2008, 4:43 pm
Woww..
Just Great!
well done!!
thanks for the posting
02 January 2008, 1:01 am
Yes it is , Agreat happy new year!
Thanks Jason,
Thanks Guy for this incredible video.
02 January 2008, 1:42 am
And a Happy New Year to all the bass players.
if the year begin like this, i have no idea where its going to end.
i have so much to do if i wont to wish the same to Mr. Tuneh!
No wordes… in my dreams i would never play this pease and if i would do so, then not like this
02 January 2008, 1:56 am
Rococo on bass!
why?
Is it a new mode, what about the music for bass?
its sounds o.k but bass is bass!!
what about the good old Orchestra Excerpts?
02 January 2008, 2:20 am
Please Jason, i wrote you more then once about a Podcast contain Guy Tuneh showing his tech.
I dont feel free to connect the Maestro by my own. after i heard the interview with him it looks to me that you are more then close to him.
please think about.
Thanks for a great Job & Happy New Year to you to.
(& sorry for my English)
02 January 2008, 3:21 am
Its avery good idea!
A leason with Mr. Tuneh on a podcast.
I have some things to ask Guy Tuneh.
02 January 2008, 5:48 am
With Tuneh it looks so easy.
I wonted to play it on bass for my final test but
it was unplayable, you need to learn a special
technick to play the notes.
woww…
its realy very impresive.
02 January 2008, 7:04 am
Is it solo strings or normal?
The Maestro begins with the note E,so its the original scale, like the cello part,
did he write this for bass or its 1 to 1 (from the cello score)??
for normal strings it sounds very solistic.
Realy great job.
02 January 2008, 8:28 am
He playes it like a f++king Cellist!!
02 January 2008, 11:36 am
Sehr gut!!
zery interesting!
02 January 2008, 11:44 am
How in the name of God is he doing his AMAZING
“trill”??!
02 January 2008, 1:28 pm
Wowww..
Thank you Mr. Tuneh for a Great video!!
Thank you Jason for postimg this Great Video!!
I hope to hear more and more Contrabass players going in the way of Mr. Tuneh, and other bass players.
With this kind of beginh What a Year this one is going to be!
02 January 2008, 1:51 pm
After i got to see the original score for Cello
(i got realy high pulse – Because some of it looks just crazy hard to play,even dont know where to begin!!!)
I’d be happy to get the chance to ask Mr. Tuneh
some questions;
the score that he used to play this pease form?
Some fingering ideas?
& last but not least Technical tipps for this
Amazing hard work.
I mean my friend is playing the Cello, and he said no way, that bass player would play this on bass.
02 January 2008, 1:59 pm
What next??!
To play Paganini on the Roof??
Go back to play your Orchestral excerpts!
02 January 2008, 2:58 pm
Its the first time that i hear this on Bass.
its working well, on Doublebass.
Cool, one more pease that the bass won from other instruments.
We need more players from that kind.
Bravo.
03 January 2008, 12:37 am
This give me a new inspiration!
03 January 2008, 8:34 am
Very Short but AMAZING
03 January 2008, 9:55 am
Rococo on Contrabass
Nice idea.
very nice playd
04 January 2008, 10:05 am
What a Great Player,
& Amazing Idea.
04 January 2008, 12:49 pm
Amazing Virtuos!
04 January 2008, 3:35 pm
As you said Jason,
An Outstanding Bassist!
Maestro Tuneh,I Would like to wish you and to Jason Happy New Year , with a lot of Amazing new Ideas, Incredible Bass playing (as you allready do),and the most importent:
Keep on giving us inspiration.!!!
Happy New Year.
05 January 2008, 2:57 am
Happy New Year to You to!
What a Great Bass playing.
BRAVO BRAVISIMO!!!!!!
07 January 2008, 10:18 am
Wow.
Great New Year to you Two!!
12 January 2008, 11:16 am
Outstanding indid!!
13 January 2008, 9:06 am
Woww,
it is very hard to play, even for cello players.
Great Performans Mr. Tuneh!
BRAVO!
and Mr. Tuneh’s interview that i just heard,
it changed something in the way i think!
Realy intresting!
14 January 2008, 12:17 pm
Rococo on Bass, Only a Devil would try!!!
15 January 2008, 1:43 pm
I Would like to know how Maestro Tuneh playes the first Variation, i tryed some fingers but,
gosh its Amazing hard
16 January 2008, 8:31 am
Woww,
What a Player!
16 January 2008, 12:17 pm
The Incredible Mr. Tuneh,
Happy New Year!
Shit, i realy dont know what do, if i would like to play lie this!
17 January 2008, 4:51 am
Great impact, Great Artistic level!
One of a few bass players to leave Artistic impact after he play.
BRAVO Mr. Tuneh
27 January 2008, 2:52 pm
Outstanding??! Rococo on Bass and it Sounds like this..
He is more then just normal Outstanding,
He is Mega Outstanding!!!!
(This guy is a crazy Virtuos)
29 January 2008, 5:41 am
Woww, Great Personality!
29 January 2008, 8:24 am
God be with Mr. Tuneh.
he needs him to protect him from the devil!!!
BRAVO .
29 January 2008, 11:21 am
This Bassist is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
More from this video in Utube!
29 January 2008, 11:34 am
Ho Ho.. Bassist with so much fine in his play.
It’s so hard to find bass players with so much esthetic, gread and nobel! (sorry but most of them are like “farmrs”)
this one is making my Heart bit stop.
delightful!!!
a real Artist on Bass, i will note the day that i saw this one.
30 January 2008, 6:11 am
The Rococo is AMAZING, i have it in my hear after
the today’s concert with a Cellist (& a good one),
I have to say;
It’s not bad, in some points it’s even better/intresting then with cello.
Maestro Tuneh playes it Extra Original!
after this video i visited the Interview page,
Wow,Huge words from an Extraordinary Person.
BRAVO for Tuneh, pure Insperation.
and Bravo for You,Mr. Heath that you post this kind of Great Players, in your Blog!
This is the kind of player that we need, to learn from!.
30 January 2008, 8:10 am
Ha Ha.. it’s Fantastic !
30 January 2008, 1:27 pm
Nice.
31 January 2008, 4:48 am
Revolution On Bass !!!!!!!!!!
31 January 2008, 9:53 am
Its Wonderful.
01 February 2008, 4:32 am
A Legend is rising up!
01 February 2008, 12:51 pm
sehr gut!!!
Bravo for Wonderful Playing of Bass!
01 February 2008, 1:38 pm
God gave Double-bass to Guy,
Put it in the soul of Everyone!!
After “KISS”
Bravi for this two!
02 February 2008, 12:22 pm
Rococo on Bass, und so wonderfull,
Now this is a thing that brings to bass more respect and put it up with the other Solo instruments!
If you can, then why not!
Bravo
04 February 2008, 7:41 am
Ho Ye..
May God Be With Him!
Great Words, what an interview, give me so much power.
05 February 2008, 5:49 pm
Very Nice Bass Playing!!
14 February 2008, 3:10 am
Mega!!
14 February 2008, 1:18 pm
Outstanding!
So much personality, this what the bass need
to become one of the Solo instrument.
BRAVO Mr. Tuneh!
30 December 2008, 7:01 am
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