Here’s another entry from a bassist for the YouTube Symphony featuring the recitatives (perhaps the most standard audition excerpt ever) from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and some Mozart 39:
Even a handful of walking notes is cool on the bass….
Gotta love this stunning shot with a bass in the background. It’s as if the bass was a convict making a break for it, with the spotlight searching for the escapee. the secret life of a double bass, originally uploaded by Funny Fish.
I just updated my book, “An Introduction to Double Bass Playing” and to promote it I’ve put the e-version on sale for $5.00! But only for a few days. – Peter Tambroni, MostlyBass.com
We had a couple of pretty humorous moment at the Elgin Symphony this month. I usually don’t mention specific people or ensembles in story posts like this after realizing that they’ll pop up right at the top of search results (sometimes before the...
