I’m a 20 year old doublebass student in …. and hope to someday study in Paris. I’ve looked at many bass players bow technique (…) but since adopting your technique it has really done wonders for my playing. Since I’m on the subject you spoke of putting finger 2&3 under the frog.\u00a0 However do you still \u00ab\u00a0pull\u00a0\u00bb the bow with the first finger (down bow) and forth finger(up bow).<\/em> This is my answer<\/p>\n Very honored, …, thanks and I am happy to count for you, near all those fabulous french bow players who are all my great friends. I think the explanations where clear, the result was:<\/p>\n Hello again Monsieur Barb\u00e9!<\/em><\/p>\n I apologize for not writing this mail earlier. But it so happens that I have been on tour with my orchestra, and have had a great many opportunity’s to try out my new bow technique!<\/em><\/p>\n I just wanted to say thank you for your elaborate answer it really helped a lot! And I hope that I can ask some more questions regarding bass playing in the future. There are probably more people with the same type of questions on their mind as me.<\/em><\/p>\n Merci beaucoup!<\/em><\/p>\n G.J.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, I was asked this question: Hi Monsieur Barb\u00e9! I’m a 20 year old doublebass student in …. and hope to someday study in Paris. I’ve looked at many bass players bow technique (…) but since adopting your technique it … Continuer la lecture
\n Thank you so much for replying and giving me free advice!<\/em>
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<\/a>For very little hands, I advise a very little frog or if not possible, to place the fingers 2,3 4( yes, even the pinky) not under the frog but under the stick and in the frog’s hole. I use myself this position very often to have a nice clean and warm sound with easy attack of the string, specialy in the low register. This position is also able to play spiccato notes ( balsato), but not for a long time. I use the first grip in that case ( switch in one second).<\/a><\/li>\n