Some more double bass practice. One thing I’ve noticed is that in the beginning, when finding the fast motion, my foot was really stuck to the pedal. Moving it the slightest left or right threw me off immediately. But the more I played, I found that the motion got more relaxed and I could start to sway a little. Nothing close to a full swivel, but a slight swaying. I’m hoping that it might be the start of something good.

I cut together a video of my double bass experiments, practice and development during the past year and a half. I suck enormously at slower speeds, and development is really slow. What got my motivation up was discovering a motion that suddenly allowed me to reach the higher speeds. It started out almost like a twitching motion, but then again not quite. And I could absolutely not control it in any meaningful way, as starting and stopping was and still is really tricky.