Jason Heath's Vibrato Tips to Make Your Double Bass Sing! 🎵

[@Pensivata]

Great to hear Jason talk about this subject. Some people have spoken about the great vocalists - Ella et al - and how instrumentalists should try to emulate the 'cry of the vocalist'. To make your instrument cry. Vibrato is surely such an important component to this. And talking about the 'sound of lament' produced by the double bass - this is one of the most inspiring comments I have heard regarding the instrument; "The Cello shines in music with an emotional feel that is happy, but with a slight hint of sadness in it, like a parent watching their child graduate high school and going to college, proud of their child and hopeful of the future, yet their heart breaking from seeing their child growing up and become their own adult. The Bass, however, is the king of pure sorrow. It's lows are so dark and colorful and it's highs are so soft and light, it's like the weeping of a mother who's lost her child. The lows resonate loudly the moaning of pure grief and the high range sounds as if the instrument's voice is crying and unable to get it's voice to speak. I'm a brass player but I'd chop my left leg off to have grown up in a school system with an orchestra program to become a bass player.".

[@jamesrichardson3322]

I think Jason was a student of Francois Rabbath, I love what he teaching us.

[@TheUnderscore_]

Watched this a couple days ago and realized I forgot to thank this video! This made me realize that vibrato isn't too hard, just _really_ tiring in long intervals. I thought me getting tired was the fault of me doing something wrong, so I stopped until recently haha

[@DiscoverDoubleBass]

I'm so glad it helped :-)

[@Radowitzki]

Always awesome to see Jason!