I play the violi now and a friend of mine who is in my orchestra group plays the bass but is it more worth while to keep playing violin, and master the tequnicks or play both and get good at both of them and what are some good double bass pieces to play.
Oh...and Im not talkig about the bass guitar I am talking about the double bass in a string orchestra.
2007-02-05 11:19:52 · 6 answers · asked by Orch Dork 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
i would say learn both! as for pieces of double bass, here are some STANDARD pieces that is really good to learn.
Capuzzi's Double Bass Concerto
Sergei Rachmaninoff's Vocalise
and iono.. Arioso from Bach?
2007-02-05 15:52:13 · answer #1 · answered by trrew w 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The viola is pitched a 5th under the violin and is regularly notated in alto clef, a clef which, so some distance as i be attentive to, isn't regularly utilized via the different device. The cello is an octave under the viola and is regularly notated in bass clef. The double bass is a member of the viol kin, no longer the violin kin; as such its strings are tuned in fifths (from low to severe: E, A, D, G; the E is a 6th under the C string on a cello). i might think of that studying to study distinctive clefs may be a controversy. So might distinctive pitches, distinctive periods with the double bass, and the version in scale length. nonetheless, i will notice that the final public of violists began out enjoying the violin, so as that distinctive transition is a relatively straightforward one.
2016-10-01 11:50:01 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a cellist, I am encouraging you to master the violin first but be open. Then if you want to switch to reading bass cleff and playing the double bass, for a new experience, and feel comfortable reading that cleff as well, then go for it. As there are a plethera of violinists, but not so many bases.
2007-02-05 11:33:56 · answer #3 · answered by royandpeg@sbcglobal.net 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I belleve you can become proficient at both of them. I have known several people who played differnt stringed instruments. I don't know any music to suggest.You will just have to practice more if you choose to do two of them, but you will be more valuable because you will have more skills. Later you could decide if you prefer one over the other, but you are getting experience and it increases your understanding of music.
2007-02-05 11:26:09 · answer #4 · answered by plaplant8 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Before reading the smaller print, I was about to write - "Play both at once?? How on earth??!!" But the fine print clued me in!
Lesson: Read the fine print!
2007-02-05 13:02:51 · answer #5 · answered by thisbrit 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If something is easy, it is probably not worth doing. Challenge yourself and try both!
2007-02-05 11:28:32 · answer #6 · answered by Swede 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋