Hi i'm Jason Heath from Discover Double Bass
and I want to show you how I rosin bass bows
and it's quite different from how violinists
violists and cellists rosin there's a distinct
technique that I like to do for bass rosining
i find that it gets a good amount of rosin
on the bow's hair and that it keeps my bow
hairs from breaking too much so violinists
violists cellists you'll see them polishing
their bow like this putting the rosin on
and that's typically not the best technique
for bass players what I like to do and what
a lot of bass players I know like to do is
take your rosin cake and there are lots of
different great brands of rosin here
hold the rosin firmly in your hand put the
bow at the frog so you're going to take a
down bow and with a decent amount of pressure
into the rosin put on 2 to 3 strokes
and you really want to hear the friction of
the bow hair against the rosin you don't want
to be too light I see very frequently beginners
especially put just very light amount of rosin
on and we need a serious amount of rosin to
get these strings moving
so two or three strokes of a nice fresh sticky
cake of rosin is a great way to get started
one more thing about rosin it's a good idea
to play for a few minutes before you put rosin
on you have rosin on your bow from the previous
session and it's good to let it warm up and
move on the strings so you don't over rosin
your bow we don't want too much rosin on or
we start to get a gritty sound
so warm up a little bit and then if it feels
like it needs it which I usually put a couple
of strokes on a day then just like I did from
the frog to the tip downbow motion don't move
the rosin move the bow and if you'd like to
learn about this and many other topics about
the double bass I've got a course about them
on discover double bass and the full details
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