Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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The National Music Museum (formerly called the Shrine to Music Museum) is located on the campus of the University of South Dakota in the town of Vermillion. I was born in this town and grew up about an hour north of it in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The National Music Museum is a fascinating place [...]

John C. Dvorak recently posted this story about a class action lawsuit Florida college students have initiated against school book publishers for overcharging:
In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that could affect thousands ofcollege students who think they are overcharged for textbooks, twoDaytona Beach Community College students have sued the nation’s largestcollegiate-bookstore chain and their school.

The class-action suit, [...]

Here is a video of the great Jascha Heifetz playing his Hora Staccato arrangement. This was a signature piece for Heifetz. What a monster player he was (I have dozens of Heifetz recordings on my shelves):

There are two predominant double bass pedagogical methods in the United States today. The older, established double bass method here is without a doubt the New Method for String Bass by Franz Simandl. This tried and true double bass pedagogical tome methodically takes the beginning double bass student up the fingerboard, half-step by [...]

After a long day of surfing, hacking, and tweaking, I have put some really cool new features into my blog that I think people will enjoy. The first new feature is above this post in the address bar of your browser. I have installed a Bass Page favicon (the bass clef you see [...]

Michael Hovnanian has been writing some posts on his CSO Bass Blog that would be very helpful to classical double bassists. He has been providing some fingering solutions for pieces that the Chicago Symphony has been performing recently.
Check out his Mahler 7 post or his Kodály Concerto for Orchestra post for some examples.
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Greg Sarchet (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, Bass Club Chicago) pointed this list out to me recently. It is a list of all the different names and variants of the Inbindi. The Inbindi is either an acoustic or electric one string bass instrument, and there are dozens of styles from around the world. [...]

Check out this cool speed talking video. In under 2 minutes, he names the books of the Bible (Old and New Testaments) the Book of Mormon, the 50 US States, the alphabet backwards, the U. S. Presidents and the Academy Award winners for Best Picture.

Here is a list of everything he says (in under [...]

In keeping with my recent post about pop music, my former student Tyler Bakken directed me to this great recording of Van Halen’s “Jump” by The Bass Gang. Click this link to listen to the arrangement! Also click the photo to check out their website and more information about the ensemble.
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Lynn from Lynnspace.com pointed me to some excellent music blogs recently. I will be checking them out and adding them to my blogroll here. Check out her links page for some great music (and non-music) blogs.