Urb for me Update!!

[thanny XIII]

I can rymhe, plus on wednsday I'm renting a non plywood upright so next year I can be in orchestra! Hooray!

[Tim C]

the rental cost you'll rack up by next year is gonna be brutal, you might just wanna buy an upright

[josh a]

How come some people call double basses upright's and then there is the actual upright bass - confusing.

Also, can't you just play your normal bass?

At my school orchestra a guy plays ordinary bass in it - confused me to start with but hey.

[josh a]

Whoops - double post.

Lol check this:

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Also confusing.

[butcherNburn]

Originally posted by thanny XIII:

I can rymhe, plus on wednsday I'm renting a non plywood upright so next year I can be in orchestra! Hooray!

Cool.

I'm sure you'll have better luck with the urb.

[EddiePlaysBass]

Originally posted by thanny XIII:

I can rymhe

You can't spell, though

 

Congrats, but you might want to look into buying one, if you're serious about it.

[kenfxj]

Originally posted by EddiePlaysBass:

Originally posted by thanny XIII:

I can rymhe

You can't spell, though

 

Congrats, but you might want to look into buying one, if you're serious about it.

Don't let it get you down kid. You got all the right letters on that one.

 

Good luck and have fun with it. One of my biggest regrets is not joining the jazz band or orchestra way back when I was in high school.

[Whacked]

Cool.

Just find a good teacher tho. I've thought of playing the URB but no teachers that I could find. Heck, havnet found a teacher for the electric yet ('least not found a teacher that felt right)

[davio]

Originally posted by josh a:

How come some people call double basses upright's and then there is the actual upright bass - confusing.

Also, can't you just play your normal bass?

At my school orchestra a guy plays ordinary bass in it - confused me to start with but hey.

What???

 

Double bass, upright bass and what many would call "ordinary bass" are the same thing.

[josh a]

Well what about the small things that are upright?

[kenfxj]

Originally posted by josh a:

Well what about the small things that are upright?

Must...resist...bad...joke...

[Bottomgottem]

Originally posted by josh a:

Well what about the small things that are upright?

[jlrush]

quote by josh a:

Well what about the small things that are upright?

 

Ahem...snort...

Maybe you're talking about the electric upright stick?

[jlrush]

Thanny,

Go for it man! But you should definitely buy instead of rent long term. At least you can recoup your money spent if you decide not to keep it up.

[Fred TBP]

No, thanny, I think you should rent for now. You really have no idea what you're getting into in terms of commitment to a instrument which is both physically and acoustically different from an electric bass. I've been playing mine for four months now and although I'm committed heavily (approx. $3,000 USD in purchase, repairs and accessories) it's taking the time to un-learn old techniques which don't work on an URB and learn new techniques just to get it to respond and play the stuff you find simple on it. I'm working on a post to describe that experience here, but for now it's a challenge to keep it from being a 20-page user guide.

 

Actually I hope you'll prove me wrong and kick butt on it, but it's going to take more than a half-hearted "what the hell, I'll try it anyway, see what it feels like" attitude to get it to sound like an instrument. Wait'll you take it on stage and put yourself out there and you'll see what I'm talking about.

 

BTW, I've talked to players who could kick my butt into the next state and they've said pretty much the same thing; if you're going to take the time to do it, do it well or do something else you're really interested in doing.

[josh a]

Originally posted by jlrush:

quote by josh a:

Well what about the small things that are upright?

 

Ahem...snort...

Maybe you're talking about the electric upright stick?

Yeah them.

Not anything else.

[Dave Brown]

Speaking as a High School Orchestra Director and a gigging upright player and private teacher:

 

Lessons are crucial.

If you were going to my school next year, I'd check you out an URB for free.

Hell, I'd even give you lessons for free. If you were signed up for orchestra.

Fred is right. You can't be flippant about the committment.

No one actually admits to having a small thing when upright.

 

Good luck to you. Can you talk your parents into moving to Southwest Ft. Worth?

[thanny XIII]

Don't think I could move but I plan on getting lessons and it is a rent to own thing so if I like it we'll buy it. Thanks for all the posts.

[thanny XIII]

I got it, and I got a teacher. His name is DAvid Yavernitsky. I doubtless spelled that wrong. He is the principle bassist for the utah symphony. I can't wait to start lessons. URB is awsome except that the action is really high and bowing is really hard. But I'm getting the notes right so It's gonna work out.

[Dave Brown]

Great!

 

Here is some info from the Utah Youth Symphony website:

 

 

David Yavornitzky received his Bachelor of Music degree from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music in 1985, having received a Bachelor of Science degree the year before. During his senior year of college, he was the Assistant Principal Bass of the Ohio Chamber Orchestra and later auditioned for and won, a position in the bass section of the Utah Symphony. In 1988 he won the Principal Bass audition for the Utah Symphony, a position that he currently holds. During his tenure with the Symphony, he has performed as concerto soloist, participated in U.S. and International tours, and has been involved in numerous recordings.

 

He is a tireless proponent of contemporary music, having had compositions written for him, as well as having given important premieres of contemporary works, including the Cleveland premiere of Hans Werner Henze's Concerto for the Double Bass.

 

David is a Professor of Double Bass at the University of Utah, where he maintains an active teaching studio. Several of his students have won statewide and national solo double bass competitions. He also conducts area youth orchestras, teaches a high school orchestra class and is a frequent chamber music and master class coach.

 

David studied with the late Anthony Knight of the Cleveland Orchestra and Edwin Barker, Principal Bass of the Boston Symphony. He is an alumnus of the Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship program and was awarded its C.D. Jackson prize for outstanding achievement. In 1997, David was awarded the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music Alumni Achievement Award.

 

He and his wife, Natalie, have two young sons.

 

Pretty neat stuff. Baldwin Wallace is a very decent music school and the Tanglewood connection is solid.

 

Work hard! Keep thinking about Texas!

[thanny XIII]

I will, on both counts.

[Big Red 67]

Congrates!!!! rememeber to ice your hands, wrists, or forarms if you get any pain at all. I mean any pain or stress. It makes a world of difference.

 

I bought a ply upright. It sounds good to me and I got a California Blond with it for $1300. That is only $100 more then the retail of the bass. I did spend more than a year bugging the shop about to get that price. I was so persistant about it that when the strings that can on it broke after a month and a half that they just moaned and gave me a $220 dollar set of strings when I told them about it.

[jlrush]

Sounds like you've found a good teacher, thanny. Dave B seems to think so too. I hope you do well and make your teacher proud.

[thanny XIII]

yes sir. heres a pic http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h248/thannyxiii/bassthatisupright.jpg

[thanny XIII]

it is small and sucks but oh well

[rdepelteau]

I played these things a couple of thimes....

 

eeeek. It's a vocation, that's fer sure. Right on stage, the guy gives it to me, says go ahead play it...! Well I looked at the tuner, and it wasn't turned on. Oh well we're playing hillbilly music anyway. Played a couple of songs, and man I tell ya, the action was a mile and a half high, the strings are yards apart, and the thing is taller than me. You need a trailer and a dog house just to own the thing and carry it around. Many people asked me to get one, but no thanks, I can't afford it. Ice packs, trailer, dog house, but a very nice sound.

 

That's why I want to get the sound without the volume. I must admit when I listen to them on the radio, they do have a very distinctive sonority.

 

 

 

That's why I

[thanny XIII]

They rock but they are a pain to move and play. I love it though and it is worth it.

[rdepelteau]

I admire your dedication.

[EddiePlaysBass]

So thanny, how's it going now? I'd like to do it at some point as well, but I'm not up for it yet.

[thanny XIII]

Well I had my first lesson with Yavornitsky today. He showed my how to hold and finger the bass and bow correctly. It is hard but fun. Our left hand middle fingers match, as he lost it to a lawn mower and had it sewed back on and mine was crushed by a brick so the nails kinda match. Go that.