Mastered by Tim Teissen

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Coming out soon (October 2018): The new album of gulis, a Graz-based alternative rock band with its own unique style of music.

“Just Like A River” is released on Engine Records, also a Graz-based indie label.

I’m happy to announce that I mastered the whole album for CD release. Thanks to the open-mindedness of the band’s members, I was able to achieve a fairly high dynamic range for this album’s music. (For those who are interested: the album’s dynamic range is DR9, and its loudness ranges between approx.  -10 and -11 LUFS.)

Thus, I could keep the punch, impact, and the natural dynamics of the band’s performance. I hope you also like the result!

Links:

http://www.gulis.at/musik/

Dynamic Range Database

See also my references.


Exploring the Fingerboard (4): Octaves and fourths

The last episode of my “Exploring the Fingerboard” series is about finding and naming notes within any single position.
To this end, we have to make use of octaves and fourths, and the “next stop” rule.

Contents:
0:50 – The “small window” problem
1:31 – Octaves
2:39 – Fourths
3:49 – Octaves again
4:29 – Exercise 8: Naming 2 notes on each string within a position
5:12 – Ex. 8A: Starting with the note D (A string, 3rd position)
6:09 – Ex. 8B: Starting with the note E (A string, 4th position)
7:04 – Summary & goodbye
 

topics: fingerboard orientation, notes, note names, octave, fourth, interval
Level: beginner
Instruments: double bass
Duration: approx. 8 min


 

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Exploring the Fingerboard (3): Sharps and flats

In part 3 of my “Exploring the Fingerboard” series, I’m adding sharps and flats to the notes. This helps us exploring the “in-between” positions.
The “next stop” rules (part 1) are necessary to master this episode’s exercises (#5 to #7).

Index:
0:56 – sharps
1:21 – Exercise 5: Play the ABC on the A string but add a sharp to every note
2:06 – Exercise 5A: upwards
3:30 – Exercise 5B: down the A string (same fingering)
5:03 – flats
5:58 – Exercise 6: Play the ABC on the G string but add a flat to every note
7:25 – Exercise 7: From E to E on the D string but add a flat to every note
9:08 – enharmonic equivalent

 

topics: fingerboard orientation, notes, note names, accidental, sharps, flats
Level: beginner
Instruments: double bass
Duration: approx. 10:21 min


 

For a list of all my video lessons go here.
You could also use the tag cloud (in the footer area of this website) in order to look for video lessons.

All German-speaking viewers may have a look at my translation page.