One of my adult students is in the habit of giving me a gift certificate for the local music store at the end of each teaching year. I don’t really need anything. I have lots of stuff most of the things I buy are for 7 string guitar or 5 string bass and so the the local stores don’t tend to have what I need. So I decided to use that gift card, and a little bit more money, to rent an upright bass for the summer. I took it on the end of June and I’ll be taking it back on August 20th. I’m using a online course through a site I’m already using called truefire.com and they have at least one fairly large course on getting started on an upright bass. Now I’ve shield away from a fretless bass because I always felt I just did not have the ears for finding these notes without frets but I’m actually having a pretty good time. I’m not ready to play it on a gig yet but I am having a good time with it.
I’m taking it back on the twentieth but, as it turns out, a friend of mine has one kicking around and he found out I was doing this and he has offered it to let me borrow it until as such time as he wants it back or I don’t need it anymore so that’s pretty sweet.
Other names for the upright bass are bass fiddle stand up bass and, weirdly enough, Doghouse bass
Robert Burton
info@riverheightsmusic.com
204-487-3664
2025 Corydon Ave. #202
Winnipeg Manitoba
R3N 1P5