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Rockabilly Double Bass: Learn to Jump, Jive & Wail
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Part of the video series: How to Play Double Bass: Lessons for Rockabilly
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Summary: Play rockabilly style on the double bass using these introductory tips and advice from our expert double bass player in this free music lesson video.
Views: 8,422 | Tags: bass, jazz, string, classical, solo, double, play, scale, upright, rockabilly
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Ken Steiner Ken Steiner has been playing string bass professionally in the Boston area for over 40 years. Mostly self-taught, he currently plays jazz with Lost in the Sa... read more
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Rockabilly Double Bass: Learn to Jump, Jive & WailHi! I’m Ken Steiner on behalf of expertvillage.com, I’ll be talking today about slap bass. Slap bass is a technique for upright bass players you hear it often in Rockabilly music but you can also hear it in Blues music, Country music, Latin, Jazz, we’ll be exploring these different types of music and its application with slap bass today. Before we start actually learning some of the techniques I want to talk a little about the setup of the bass, just an acoustic bass and I guess we’ll get started.
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A wonderful series of videos ...thanks for sharing your knowledge.
The bass you see in the video is a 1939 Kay bass. I use a different bass for jazz, and I generally don't play classical. I find that bowing gut strings is more difficult that stell strings. - Ken
Hi amcguire, I have recently started using Eurosonic light gauge strings and I love them. I have them on the bass you see pictured, as well as my older carved bass. I feel they have the warm gut sound as well as the low tension required for slapping with none of the drawbacks of more tempremental gut strings. They are not great for bowing, however. If you have any other questions, you can find me email at kensteiner.com ... I didn't see your question for about a month.
I just recently bought an upright bass ans have found your videos very helpfull. I was wondering what kind of strings would you recomend?
Hey I was wondering what kind of bass you use for playing rockabilly and if you also use it for jazz and classical.