Thank you to everyone who has left a comment, shared and liked the video. It was such a special project for Discover Double Bass and we are thrilled to help spread the word about this legendary artist and teacher. The 2nd part is due out soon on our channel, so be sure to subscribe for updates! 😀

I started clapping enthusiastically after his demonstration of creating music while practicing. How can a mundane exercise sound so beautiful?

30 minute interview about the double bass. Doesn't say a single note name. Badass!

Wow! That was an astounding interview!! He has an infectious love of the instrument. I'm going to blow the dust off of my early edition of his book.

J’ai un profond respect pour cet homme. Un parcours de vie étonnant. Un contrebassiste génial doté d’une grande humilité et générosité. Merci

There was a series of interviews with this remarkable man on the French National Classical music radio station France-Miusique this week. I found myself hanging on his every word! When you think that Monsieur Rabbath is pushing ninety-three. This takes away one's fears of aging.

I can tell this is going to help me for my electric bass playing. What a beautiful fellow. Gratitude!❤️🙏🏼

Grazie Maestro!

Thank you so much for this interview! This is a great bright man! The future of contrabass art lies precisely in the teaching methods of this man! Low bow and respect!!!

Wow. Genius. Great job giving him the room to do his thing, Geoff.

''How you can be lost if you learn?'' BAM

Geoff looks like a kid in a candy shop watching Mr. Rabbath play, as do I simply watching and enjoying this video!

This man is a maestro in all aspects about the Double Bass, and what a wonderful rendition with his son playing “Night And Day”, absolutely incredible. 🇮🇪👍

Incredible interview! I don't know why more people haven't adopted this technique. It's so much better than the traditional training I received.

A genius. We feel very lucky to have such great bassists in France 😊

What a thrill it see to see this video after 20 years away from playing the bass and having the luck/privilege to meet Rabbath all those years ago, and to now comes back to it.

La bravura, la sensibilità e la passione di questo eccezionale contrabbassista fanno capire la vera posizione di questo strumento nel jazz. Grazie per questo intervento!

We all love him!!! thanks for this!

This is a fantastic interview! I started playing bass a few months ago when I was 45 years old, and it’s great to hear him say that you can start at any age. 😆 It was also great to see how he holds his bass. I’m a short person with a big belly and short arms so I have to angle my bass to be able to reach the finger board at all. My teacher says it’s kind of extreme. Now I can tell everyone I’m doing the Rabbath technique. 😆

What a treasure this man is…

Excellent, he's a master of the double bass.

Best Rabbath video on internet! What a great guy. He's still rocking this big clumsy beast at 90! 😀This show that you always have to be open minded to the double bass and find your own way and don't always rely on methods from more than 100 years ago (although they are surely helpful). There are many ways to approach the upright and you have to absorb all of them and find your own way on the instrument. There is too much narrow-mindedness. Do you also have part 2 after the musical intermezzo? Or did that never happen? Thanks so much for this video Geoff!

Bravo 👏 Greetings from San Francisco, California, USA 🙂 Thanks for sharing, mate! Cheers!

The best!

Thank for this post. François Rabbath is a very kind person and a good teacher .

I learned about Francois' technique in an issue of Bass Player magazine more than 30 yrs and from my teacher Dan Pliskow here in Detroit. However, seeing and listening to him is incredible. What an interview, congratulations!

Amazing.

What an amazing interview, he is a man from the future he says that his discoveries keep him young, I don’t think he will ever grow old.

This is great! Congratulations Geoff! Thanks for all your good work👏🏼👏🏼🎵🎵

wow, great .... thanks 😉

Awesome 👌 love this video.

Wow amazing interview thanks!

Thank you thank you thank you. My life is changed.

Love this gift. Thank you.

Fantastic

MAESTRO!!!

Three minutes in, and I'm already learning stuff I never guessed at.

Wow! Simply superb! I suspect this interview will become iconic in the legacy of this great performer, composer, and teacher - and in the history of this wonderful breathing creature called the double bass. Excellent, Geoff! I wish I could give it a thousand Likes!

This is a precious gift to all of us. Thank you.

This is absolutely fabulous! Thank you so much for such a lovely interview with such a master!

One of the greatest of all time !!!

This is solid gold, Geoff! I love this so much-you really pulled out incredible material here with Francois!

Hi Geoff, congratulations on this wonderful video. I've been fortunate enough to follow François' teaching for over 20 years but his talk is still so clear and inspiring to me. I encourage all bassists of all styles to take an interest in this technique. Whether you do jazz, classical, funk, metal 😅 the pivot, the crab .... Can revolutionize your approach to the instrument. Hopefully your channel's audience can popularize this unique technique even more. And a technique only at the service of the Music.

Absolutely wonderful. Thank you!

A lesson I never thought I needed

I remember when I was a freshman in college in 1990 and wanted to learn how to play the bass. My teacher put the Nouvelle Technique in front of me, the Troisieme Cahier. I still use it today- had it renovated by a local book binder. Thanks for this amazing interview! You did a masterful job of conducting the interview. Thanks!

Wow! What a performance! Bravo!

Jeff you hit the jackpot my man! Thanks.

Su interpretación de Night and Day me hizo llorar. Increíble llegar a esa edad y disfrutar del instrumento como un niño

Thank you Geoff, for this Interview. Rabbath is incredible.

The sparkle in his eye! This guy's pic is beside the entry on 'Beginner's Mind' in the encyclopedia.

i love yout rabbath thanks for your teaching

Bravo, Geoff! Your interviews are always wonderful - you have such a genuine love of the instrument and of your interviewees, and it always comes through. What a pleasure! Thank you for doing these and sharing them.😀

Fantastic interview! thank you for the great content!

That tone in the upper register on the E string. WOW!

Wow what a great interview. Love the simplicity behind all the techniques. I can't no more agree about the scales approach. Thanks for share this video.

Amazing person and amasing preformance 🍷❤🙏

Amazing! Thank you very much!

Thank you Geoff.

Wonderful, thanks Geoff.

Just amazing, such an inspiration !

I love this man!

Thanks Rabbath and Discover Double Bass

Such a wonderful personality.... and a fantastic bass player 🤩

Well that's a my mind blown.

what a legend! Great interview Geoff!

I agree with Francois 100%.

A course from mr. Rabbath soon?

Great Geoff!!!

Demais

What's about the story that Yehudi Menuhin met Master Rabbath. Before my injury, I use the pivot thumb for my left hand, but I am afraid to change my endpin, so playing A and E strings I needed to use my leg to move the whole bass, hehehe. " Less shifting, Less positioning, intonation perfected, fingers flawlessly moved "

Oof that bow work at 21 min! Now, does he use his third finger on the left hand or not?

I'd like to try this endpin. Marcos Machado likes It, too.

This guy is badass! I say this as a non-bassist.

Scales the life blood of a Double Bassist...

I had a master class with him once at The Duke Ellington School in DC like 32 years ago. He was a god then. I started the video & I was like, “Francois, what happened to all that hair??!!”

Denver colorado i have a signed picture of senor rabbath.

Imagine Rabbath and Grapelli together.

When are you guys going to interview barre phillips?

Young bull talking to old bull....