Excellent roundup of tips. Thanks

I need a channel like this but for cello 😭😭👌👌🤠🤠

I like to aim the bow by default smack in the middle of the C bout - that's what yours looks like when you do the 6:1 thing, and it's easy to see if you video yourself. Helpful video, thanks for posting.

You're my hero ❤ Thank you so much!

The bit about maintaining a similar timbre by moving where energy is put into a string relative to changes where it's stopped I think applies to all stringed instruments. I expect it's also taken into account by piano makers. I'm curious to check for that next time I peer into one. Some really great content here!

Thanks for the tips!

Thanks for that Jason, I’m probably guilty of all of those 😀

I wipe the Rosin off the string if I am not dialed in during a gig to get a balance...

Fantastic video, as always! One to add might've been a kind of 'squeaking' sound you get when playing high on the fingerboard, which I've put down to not playing close enough to the bridge

great tips. I like to use a comb before I start playing to separate the bow hair too. Also for players with short arms, on a properly setup bass, the distance from the bridge to the tailpiece where the strings hook in should be 1/6 the string length so you can use that to judge

When does part two of the interview come out? 😂 Great stuff!

Number 7 been driving me nuts lately

Many thanks Jason! great checklist! About good sound on a slow bow, I remember a little exercice given by Tom Martin, during the Rencontres de Contrebasses en Roussillon(RCR):bow an open A string, hold the note for 30 seconds, metronome at 60... part of the final exam at the Royal Academy of Music , it seems! Tom's advice: start the note at around 1/6 of the string length and slowly get closer to the bridge without stopping...quite difficult, my personal record:24 seconds😂

Oh gee whiz. I do all of these nasty sounds. I'm an adult and have been playing for 10 months. I have to remind myself that this takes time. Every now and then it sounds wonderful, but usually not. Someday it will be more often. I must be patient. Thank you for a wonderful video.

Interesting show I do not play a voil instrument.. My .instrument... piano and formerly flute. Love music. At my music camp years ago...55 years...Gary Karr played a concert. He had just won something in the beginning of his career. Our cabin counselor played string base. She was very nice.

Thanks, like the vibes

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I found this useful. Thanks

Great tips. Just curious, what kind of bass do you play? Is it new(ish)?

Hi Jason, regarding the "6 to 1" ratio for bow placement, I get it, and it does seem to work for open strings, but as soon as you finger a note the vibrating string length is shortened and that optimal point is going shift towards the bridge... potentially a lot. So how can we find this point when fingering a note if we don't have 3 arms to be able to stop the note, find the minor-7th harmonic, and bow at the same time? Practice more and learn to recognize the feel of that "sweet spot", I guess. 😀

i have a tryout tmrw and my bass was sounding super weird turns out my bow was just crooked

Any advice on what’s happening when you play arco and there’s a type of didgeridoo-like sound in(side) the notes?