What is a double bass?
The name of the double bass concerns the lowest expressed instrument in the family. It is used to name tools in Woodwind, Brass, Percussion and String, sometimes with tools that are named from the same scheme (soprano, alt, tenor, bass), but not always. In the brass family there is a double bass bugle and a contrabos trombone. There is also a drum tool called Contra Bass Bar, an extension of Orff-Shulwerk Mallet developed for music teaching at primary schools.
, but the most commonly referred to as double bass without connected other words is a large chain tool also called double bass. The double bass is an orchestral instrument in the same family with violin, viola and cello or cello. In the orchestra, this often contributes to harmony, but there are also solo parts written for it. But double bass leads an alternative life as an instrument of jazz and dance bands, where Pizzicato is primarily played - ie rather than inclined.
The double bass differs in size, shape and number of chains. AsThe orchestra is usually tuned four chains E, A, D, G, but there are also 5-seam double bassses with the lower chain added and tuned to B or C. Special tuning called scordature and increasing tool height is often used for solos.
Like other string tools, Coostabs can be played Arco - with a bow - or pizzicato - jerking. Two styles of the bow that are currently preferred are known as the French bow and the German bow. In jazz, as mentioned above, pizzicato is used, but also a special pizzicato technique called Slap-Bass is used. This technique adds percussive clicks or slap to pull the sound of pizzicato.
Orchestral work with remarkable passages for double bass is a guide to young person Benjamin Britten to the orchestra, the first symphony of Gustav Mahler, Georg Telemann's Trillensymphonie inD, written in 1730, can be the first part for solo double bass. Today the repertoire includes more than 200 arms concerts. The famous orchestral bass players include Domenico Dargonetti, Giovanni Battesini, Sergei Koussevitzky, Bertram Turtetzky and Duncan McTier. The well -known jazz bass players include Charles Mingus, Red Mitchell, Dave Holland and Eberhard Weber, who are known both playing and innovative approaches.