Valse Miniature by Serge Koussevitzky

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Justin Leonard

This is probably the best version, i have an LP with Levinson playing it. I got it from my teacher who studied with him. This piece is also good to check the upper registers of basses for evenness across the strings. That youtube version is the same one i have,

It sounds so smooth. Crossing the strings and shifting even on a good bass is difficult. Playing it on a standard sized Orchestra Bass (7/8) with fairly wide string spacing does not make it any easier. The smaller the bass, the easier it is to play but playing it on my regular basses makes it that much more of a challenge.