Maria from West Side Story (Double Bass Quartet)

[@LaurenPierceBass]

If you’d like to learn this piece, I have my personal edition available for you in my online shop! gumroad.com/l/mariaquartet

[@trinitymcdowell3338]

God i just started playing bass and this makes me want to work ten times harder!!!

[@jakedixonmusic]

Lauren, what an absolute pleasure it was to perform this arrangement with you back in 2019

[@yotamaran1]

Just can't with you. It's so beautiful I'm in tears.. I'm physically unable to stop watching your videos. You may count me as a new fan of yours.

[@416cyclestyle]

Wow… this just hits like the first time watching on screen… thanks.

[@snowsurfer2512]

That was beautiful, you should do more videos like this

[@LaurenPierceBass]

Okay you convinced me :)

[@caindelgado3744]

Precioso beautiful! Thank you!

[@santicruz4012]

I just downloaded this quartet, thank you Miss Pierce

[@georgealvey]

Wow!!! Very moving ❤❤❤❤

[@AlexBallMusic]

Always amazed by what you can do on the bass! Great video.

[@dimitrisamson7516]

Thank You Lauren! This beautiful music reminds me of my beautiful wife olga , She was a Great pianist and musician and beloved Person. She did suddenly on November The 04th 2018. I know She would Love your music.

[@carloasuni4080]

Amazing Lauren!

[@doublebasspolyphonic.R2BLJ]

*Super! excellent sound, great technique!*

[@LearnBassWithAri]

Beautiful arrangement and loved the expressive playing. 👏

[@nezihyesilnil3756]

Thank you, it's very good musical idea

[@polomordha]

Fantastic,intonation and dynamics are sublime.

[@christerbjernelind626]

Wonderful, just wonderful!

[@tonyeverts4278]

Fantastic.....Can't stop listening to it. Thank You. Tony E.

[@rogercawkwell5413]

Beautiful tone. Ensemble convincingly put together.

[@katystenner576]

This is a beautifully done arrangement of a beautiful piece. It made me cry

[@ephjaymusic]

This is so underrated! Such expression for double bass! Charming!

[@nezihyesilnil3756]

I love songs from that movie

[@camusmonamour]

superbe comme toujours! merci Lauren. Karl (Lyon)

[@DityaSangGita]

Hi Lauren. This is beautiful, soo beautiful. I'm a cellist subscribing to your channel quite couples of years ago, and I just rediscovered you made a rendition of this song. Please never stop sharing. Can't wait to see you do another project.😊

Amazing execution and post-production...

[@alfredojose4277]

I love this song. So beautiful.

[@vinceclarkmusic]

Hello Lauren! Great performance. Beautiful rendition.

[@jamesgutowski3140]

Absolutely lovely!

[@yousifa7354]

I am feeling really sick and stressed out recently, but that made me really calm down, thanks so much for that.

[@nemo227]

I think every bass player will like this. I do. Can I give it FOUR thumbs up?

[@johnpaulgeorring]

What an Inspiration! What an expressive and beautiful sound. Thank you for this! Keep making beautiful music

[@Brook987]

Thank you Lauren, that was wonderful!

[@jameskortegast3371]

Ultra-Fantastic! Thank you Lauren. This piece was just what I needed to view and to hear today.

[@Wermland-adventure]

Love this double bass quartet and arr, so sensitive played Lauren, thanks for sharing

[@LaurenPierceBass]

Thank you so much Lars :)

[@b.s.health]

Simply beautiful!

[@tcdawsl]

Outstanding, thank you for sharing your great talent and skill with us! Please share more, okay?

[@forrestaddy9644]

Lovely. I linked it around to the moms in my family for Mother's Day. It was a hit and even got a few years. Thanks for helping an old bachelor in an impossible situation: coming up with a cheap but very fine appreciation gift for all those Holliday dinners. Many years ago I sang "Maria" as an audition piece. I thought I did it well considering my large size and weight, long hair and busby beard and bass voice (transposing to E or F, IIRC ). It was later explained to me that 40 year old grizzly bears don't sing love songs appropriate to coming of age.

[@diversekayaker]

LOVE IT ...YOU ROCK!

[@angelchavez708]

Beautiful playing like always. Bravo

[@MelissaPetitto]

Wow! Very emotional and sentimental this version. I love it!

[@rafaeltrejo377]

Sonidos maravillosos, gracias por esta maravillosa interpretación, Felicitaciones desde CD Mexico.

[@federicoscremin3468]

Fantastico!!!

[@DavidCarhuamaca]

Precioso!!❤️

[@evieshutt]

Stunning

[@anovaes2002]

linda Lauren!!! parabéns

[@woifeherrmann]

That's so wonderfull! Thank you!

[@jensenlive]

beautifully done....

[@guillerh]

From Venezuela thank a lot for share it,beautuful song, I know how to write in English

[@marysiakierejsza783]

amazing!!!

[@BeeLife]

i love all four of you!

[@ronnieoliveira9035]

Perfect the Lauren quartet!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😂

[@joliisabella6212]

Beautiful ❤️

[@najqureshi4297]

Bravo!!

[@Basslessonsmelbourne]

Wow, this is beautiful. Great job LP!

[@LaurenPierceBass]

Thanks Craig! :)

[@kazz7874]

Fantástico ! 😊

[@WaterFlame957]

Bellissimo!! Bellissimo!! Bellissimo!! 😭🌷⚘🥀😭

[@Uwek212]

shut the front door... you did soogreat uhhh shiverss

[@heinrichnutzel7031]

THANK YOU!!!

[@JesseBFournier]

4 Laurens

[@MrButchah]

Frickin sweet

[@scott_maness]

WOW.

[@dominicduvalbass]

❤️

[@RobertSaxy]

Wow

[@rsibley]

Great job - this sounds so good! How do you keep each one of yourselves in sync so well? You must use a metronome or something similar?

[@LaurenPierceBass]

Thanks! I actually made a little click track for myself before recording any of the parts. I knew I needed something to keep me together, but a straight metronomic click was too rigid. I wanted some natural fluctuation in the timing for phrasing, so I sang along to the melody line and recorded myself clicking on my metronome :)

[@rsibley]

Ahh, nice thinking to avoid making it rigid! Did you have it clicking in your ear, or perhaps it was visual?

[@ikermolina5612]

can u upload the sheet??

[@mattil6710]

Hi Lauren, I have watched all of your videos and I have noticed that besides your extraordinary playing skills you have very good bass... can you tell me who has made it and when it was made?

[@LaurenPierceBass]

Hey Matti, thank you! It's a little Italian bass ca the 1850s, unknown maker. It is a beautiful instrument :)

[@mattil6710]

thx... I am just having "a little" bass fever at the moment so im trying to find the best bass for me

[@nosecretsbass7471]

Hi Lauren! I know you posted this a while ago, but I only just found it. Great job! Did you ever publish the arrangement? I roun a bass ensemble and I'd love to have them play this. You cn find me on Talkbass if it's easier. Very best wishes Neil Pye

[@forrestaddy9644]

Have you considered an album of lovely old romantic tunes in a similar style as your rendering of Bernstein's "Maria?" I wouldn't presume to make a serious suggestion but Cole Porter favorites might be a place to start.

[@LaurenPierceBass]

I think that's a lovely idea, thank you :)

[@forrestaddy9644]

Lauren Pierce You re welcome. Make great music. I'll be listening for it. I especially liked your bass and the guitar in the loft. Nice, mellow setting. Beats a stuffy recital hall any day.

[@rayjpfeiffer]

Awesome, Lauren! I loved it. What software do you use to be able to do this?

[@LaurenPierceBass]

Thanks Ray! I use GarageBand for the audio and Final Cut Pro for the video. Final Cut Pro is where I sync both the audio and video together and create the quartered pattern for the video.

[@rayjpfeiffer]

Thanks for the response. It's really well done. I'm impressed by both the musicianship and the technical production!

[@giselaee]

Which to play strings??

[@jackhanan2872]

Beautiful! Is this your arrangement, Lauren?

[@LaurenPierceBass]

Thanks Jack! Yes, it is my arrangement!

[@jackhanan2872]

Lauren, it's beautiful. I love the voicings.

[@muzzleray]

I had to check if it was 'Maria' that Ray Brown archo'd on the Oscar Peterson trio 'West Side Story" album nope it was 'Somewhere'

[@LaurenPierceBass]

Another beautiful song from that musical!