Daumenlage / Thumb position

This is what separates a double bass from an electric one:

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Daumenlage / Thumb position, Schlitz 2019

Another photo from Alexander Dawo which I took last week in Schlitz. And yes, he explained to me later how to get in and out of this Daumenlage…

As always, thanks for reading and viewing.

In German / Auf Deutsch: Konzert der Musikklassen der PrĂ€lat Diehl Schule Groß-Gerau

Nachdem ich gestern bereits ein Video der Alumni Big Band zusammen mit “den SĂ€ngerinnen” hochgeladen hatte folgt nun die erste HĂ€lfte des Konzerts von Sonntag en bloc. Das Programm und die Titel sind:

  1. Cheerleader – Brass & Co. (Leitung Frau NĂ€gler)
  2. See you again – Brass & Co.
  3. Forrest Gump – Orchester (Leitung Frau Blum)
  4. Fire – Orchester
  5. Cute – Big Band (Leitung Herr Dr. Eckhardt)
  6. Get back – Big Band
  7. Dinner for one – Alumni Big Band (Leitung Herr Dr. Eckhardt)
  8. Indiferencia – Alumni Big Band
  9. Children of Sanchez – Alumni Big Band
Konzert der Musikklassen der PrĂ€lat Diehl Schule Groß-Gerau

Die zweite HĂ€lfte – also alles was nach dem bereits gezeigten “Adios Axelito” gespielt wurde – werde ich in einzelne StĂŒcke aufteilen.

Wie immer vielen Dank fĂŒr’s Lesen, Zusehen, Zuhören usw.

Brian McIntyre: Release The Love

I’m still processing videos of the PDS students while I write this, but some of my friends from Wikiloops are also active. And just a few moments ago I saw that Brian has uploaded a nice remix of a song on which I played as well. Here it is:

“Release The Love” on Wikiloops (clicking on the track ID also leads you there)

That makes the list of musicians as it is for now:

Thanks to Brian for this nice addition. And as always, thanks for listening.

Alexander Dawo

Here’s a photo of Alexander Dawo with his nice 5-string double bass by Pöllmann. If I remember it correctly, the instrument is from around 1960, so almost my age. And although it’s a cheaper one of the Pöllmann instruments, it’s still 5-digit (almost double of our used Toyota). Alex and his instrument sound very good…

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Alexander Dawo with his 5-string Pöllmann double bass, Schlitz 2019

He brought some copies of a CD on which he played, so I bought one from him. It’s this one.

As always, thanks for reading.

Adios Axelito – Alumni Big Band der PrĂ€lat Diehl Schule Groß-Gerau

As I wrote during the last days already, I’ve had the pleasure and the honour to be invited to document a three day rehearsal plus one day of concert of different bands and classes of Zuleikha’s high school, so from last Thursday to Sunday I went to Landesmusikakademie Hessen with them.

I took photos and videos using three cameras plus a portable 4 track audio recorder, and collected some 100GB of data – all of which now has to be edited, cut, and so on. And starting from today these photos and videos are to be presented to the participants and of course to their parents and families.

Here’s a first one – a song by German composer / arranger /conductor / band leader Kurt Klose, called “Adios Axelito”:

Adios Axelito – Alumni Big Band der PrĂ€lat Diehl Schule Groß-Gerau

My videos and photos aren’t perfect – but what is? I hope you’ll see that we all have had some fun during last week. And now we have something nice to remember 🙂

You can hear these artists again today at their (former, for some) school. Entrance is free.

Thanks for reading / watching / listening.

Back from Schlitz

From Thursday to Sunday I was in Schlitz at the LMAH (Landesmusikakademie Hessen), together with Zuleikha and her school plus some alumni and of course, teachers. The main building from its back side (the river side) looks like this:

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Schloss Hallenburg, Schlitz 2019

I took this photo in the early Friday morning with my new zoom lens on Mitchie’s camera, and I used 3 cameras plus my portable Zoom H5 recorder to take photos and videos of the practice days and concert. All in all I produced roundabout 100GB of data which now has to be cut, edited, equalized, compressed, normalized, and presented in a halfway decent or at least acceptable way – so still lots of work to do there.

The school will use that material, and I’ll ask what I can use for my own pages. I think I can show you some more when these files are ready. The photo above is straight out of Mitchie’s Olympus E-M5 Mark 2 camera. The musicians were top class, and we all had lots of fun.

As always, thanks for reading.