Mastiff
Senior Member
I've been putting a ton of time into my double bass practice and my technique has gotten way better in the last 3-4 months. I have a range of different practice exercises and things I've been working on, but I have very little practice using this stuff within a musical context. The issue is that unlike "normal" rock, where you can start out with some AC/DC or Tom Petty or something, much of the double bass music is either super fast or otherwise very complex. Can anyone recommend some songs I can use to get a foothold into using double bass within a musical context without being overwhelmed? I'm not a beginner in general FWIW, just with the double bass.
One thing I have been doing a little is playing over basic rock songs and improvising my own double bass patterns, but that doesn't help me absorb the vocabulary of double bass as it is actually applied.
One thing I have been doing a little is playing over basic rock songs and improvising my own double bass patterns, but that doesn't help me absorb the vocabulary of double bass as it is actually applied.