First time ever playing in an orchestra pit.
And:
First time ever getting my contrabass stuck and hanging from something!
It was a slight hassle but manageable to play on it while it was thus "trapped".
That's all for today. I hope you had a light laugh.
Our daughter is in 8th grade and has been playing bass for 3 years now. She is in love - and she's good. She's been doing things like All County and state competitions... We've been told on more than one occasion she's scholarship material. We'd like to get her one of her own (3/4 size). Normally I consider myself decent at researching expensive purchases but this bass situation has be sideways. We swung by a local string shop and found Shens and Parolas (specifically a Vb10) from 10 to 12k - not the kind of coin I can put down at the moment. Then we found a local music shop with a used Shen Sb150 for 3200 - a bargain by comparison. Then I dig further and see people getting full setups for under 3k. Should I be sticking in that 3k range and looking at these "Student Basses", or is an "intermediate bass" really going to run me 12k? Really not sure where to go with this, any advice for an overwhelmed dad would be appreciated.
I started playing electric bass in my schools jazz band 2 years ago and just started playing upright 4 months ago, when I started learning, my band director gave me a 1/2 and thats what ive been playing on this entire time(I am 5'4/5'5), I always felt like my bass was just a little to small so I went to my local music store to test out some 3/4 size basses and I cant help but feel like they are just a little to big and uncomfortable, I have proportionally small hands on top of already being a small person in general and it is physically painful to play half position. I feel like I am a very akward size to play this instrument since 1/2 looks and feels to small when I play it and 3/4 is to uncomfortable to play, what should I do?
Tried my best but I don’t think it was good enough