Alexander Verster: Six Vignettes for Double Bass (2018)

[@ashtomii]

I've been playing double bass for nearly five years and it still impresses me how amazing the instrument sounds.

[@bob_s_drawkcab]

That's what keeps us bringing back to music and instruemnts isn't it :) The magic of music and the instruemt!

[@TheRojo387]

Mostly because we very seldom hear it bowed these days.

[@RedstoneManiac13]

A friend is playing this on his recital, so I thought I'd come by and listen to the original. Love the Berceuse! It's probably my favorite movement.

[@Windschutzscheibe]

This video deserves at least a million more views. I’ve never heard a double bass sound so versatile before. Fantastic playing.

[@iancollins4792]

I've listened several times now, and I'm very impresssed and inspired. It's music like this that truly motivates me to practice. Can't wait to play this someday.

[@haikat4]

With some good speakers, even a deaf man could enjoy this! Excellent work, love to see such dedication to this instrument. I'm not listening, I'm feeling.

[@RobMacKillop1]

I’ve just fallen in love with the DB. Thank you. Cellos are for wimps! 😎

[@DiscoverDoubleBass]

Incredible. Bravo.

[@TheBubbajones12]

Brilliant.

[@ruinsaneornot]

So beautiful and eerie that stirs up my emotion. What a great piece of sound!

[@Aki-tu2pu]

Wow, Dirge flashed me! That was/is my favourite! Keep it up!

[@imrehentai1504]

Great! A real treat! part 3 fantastic music experience I haven't had before... Brilliant !!!!!! :)

[@olivermuxworthy]

Beautiful music!

[@danielbaskin4418]

Possibly the best video recording of good double bass tone I know of. Wonderful work!

[@mozgotron12]

Вот! Именно то, что я искал! Соло на контрабасе! С качественной звукопередачей!

[@freddiethebassist]

Absolutely brilliant! Great work!

[@ranaeifamilyensemble1405]

love from Persia... amazing music and amazing player... Thank you so much! best wishes Ranaei family ensemble

[@MichlRotten]

really inspiring. thank you for sharing

[@mimosa-music]

Fabulous! A wonderful performance of wonderful music.

[@jeanpaullamers]

bravo, fantastic!

[@unnietodedominga9113]

Beautiful, thanks for sharing!

[@giampaoloterrosi8373]

Bellissimo suono e composizione superba! Bravissimo!!

[@lindsaydonat8578]

Incredible. Thank you for making the free download available.

[@vc5803]

incredible!

[@Sizalyth]

beautiful composition and amazing performance...so talented!

[@dylancoverdale]

This is breathtaking, mesmerizing. Wow

[@carloscastan2115]

BRAVOOo!!!!!!

[@isaacglassman2416]

This is magnificent! Thank you for sharing your work.

[@adrielhernandez4073]

Beautiful!

[@justmusic822]

Fantasties! Wow!

[@georgemoynier4285]

Just so beautiful music!!!

[@ThisIsTedMontuori]

Beautiful music!!!!!!!!

[@ContrabajoTango]

amazing, inspiring music, and great playing too, congratulations!

[@blorble4701]

thank you!

[@williamallison5222]

This is awesome! I love the use of chords and the ideas alot

[@camusmonamour]

super son, merci...

[@FranciscoLopez-gl6ok]

I love this piece, beautiful music! congratulations

[@wildsurmisemusic4494]

Really amazing work Alexander, and thank you for the score, really useful research for my own piece.

[@williequinlan7252]

Thank you👍☘️

[@davidefuniciello5207]

Double B A S S

[@mozgotron12]

Super Double B A S S

[@davidefuniciello5207]

Slap like NOW

[@AVarshaAndersonss-ys1kq]

Nice mate this is helping me for my music exam which is next week a re test

[@juanosize]

BRAVO 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 !!!!

[@MultiKamil97]

Wow, the sounds it makes are gorgeous. You're also really talented! By the way starting from 6:40 sounds like something straight off the game Vampyr and it's awesome.

[@pedrofigueiredo3660]

dude.... wow

[@Ricketan]

nice

[@pavelvasilyev8981]

Great!!!

[@3340steve]

Great sounds, I notice you trigger the low string once with first finger left hand. That is good. I have only seen a cellist do that while playing Kodaly . Thank you for the excellent music.

[@quasarouta4723]

omg!! pls keep doing this!! so Minimalism but beautiful

[@davidbahr9612]

You're a badass. Gonna get an extension and learn this

[@andreivladut3452]

That's finally a professional thing. Good job man, u got the technique

[@Sosedsd]

Мое почтение!!!!

[@levitopher]

Wonderful music, but I would also like some information about that bass - it has a fantastic sound!

[@avbigband]

Thank you! It is a very typical mid/late 19th century anonymous French bass from Mirecourt, probably made in the Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy workshop.

[@harishv7245]

👏👏👏

[@hakobhovhannisyan3028]

Замечательно

[@loekielagrange3737]

Briljant. Veral mal oor Dirge en Berceuse.

[@LFergot]

Can you please record 2 hours straight similar music is the only thing that is bringing me peace right now. Put some unaccompanied stuff on Spotify maybe?

[@ljolivarez2]

They way I can produce a short movie to this

[@eliaswendel7257]

What have you done at 4:50? But exellence work!

[@avbigband]

At 4:50 I pluck the low C with the left hand just as I start bowing it. This is so that the string is already vibrating when the bowing begins, which makes the note speak faster and more reliably. (Happens again at 4:54 and probably some other times too - it's not a conscious technique!)

[@bradleydoyle6752]

Fuck yeah

[@arcosu2720]

fuckin incredible

[@FJB6987]

Amazing. Im interested in learning more about Dirge. I tried searching for information on the song/what year was written and by who. Could you help me? Im in awe

[@avbigband]

I refer you to the title of the video, which contains the answers to all your questions! Dirge is simply one of six movements from the larger work titled 'Six Vignettes'.

[@lenis_wold9030]

Smash

[@calvinmc7805]

🤝

[@larrylitmanen9877]

I saw a guy on a train with one of these, can they create something for these people because this bass is HUGE. I felt sorry for the guy, especially when it is in the case, it's like 7 feet tall.

[@alexanderhemming9148]

Hey what do you use to put your dots on your fingerboard?

[@avbigband]

They are wooden inlays that the luthier who built the fingerboard put in.

[@mateushabermann4400]

Triplebass

[@samantheul2553]

8:14

[@samantheul2553]

8:34

[@alfieharries]

Great tone, that low C is huge. Are you using pirastro flat-chromes? Can't quite see the colour

[@avbigband]

Flat-Chromesteels, well spotted.

[@e.a.danh18]

I love this suite! Do you happen to have an arrangement that doesn't require an extension?

[@avbigband]

Emily Gage You’ll probably find that all but the 3rd mvt. (Dirge) can be adapted easily enough for an extension-free performance - often the lower notes are only there for additional resonance. Unfortunately the Dirge can’t really be arranged otherwise because of how reliant it is upon the changing pitch of the lowest open string. For mvts. 1, 2, 5 and 6 however, I would just tune the bottom string down to D, and mvt. 4 (Berceuse) is simply in standard tuning. That being said, getting an extension (with all the gates) might be the best decision you ever make and I can hardly recommend it enough...

[@e.a.danh18]

@@avbigband thank you, I'm excited to play your piece! I am planning on purchasing a bass with an extension eventually, definitely a worthwhile investment!

[@gustavomayor8595]

Davie504 can't play this

[@thierry1026]

Thats so damn low

[@Aki-tu2pu]

kinda the whole point of the double bass

[@investigationsarseny912]

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