Archive for January, 2007
Bass Blog Recital Showcase
Yazan: Jason | 31 January 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, blogging, podcasting, student resources
I recently did an interview with my friend John Grillo. This interview will be featured on the next episode of Contrabass Conversations, and it should be a real pleasure for people to hear. John also sent me a CD of his recent double bass recital, and I will be incorporating some of these tracks into [...]
Bach Tempi with Matt Heller and Don Palma
Yazan: Jason | 31 January 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, student resources
Matt Heller recently wrote about a lesson he had with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra bassist Don Palma. Mr. Palma was a clinician for the New World Symphony recently, and he was working with the double bassists in this orchestra. Matt compares tempi of different recordings of the Bach 3rd Suite Bourrees and discusses exactly what tempo [...]
Intonation for Singers and Bassists
Yazan: Jason | 31 January 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, student resources
Here is an interesting post from the Chicago Classical Music blog. Bass vocalist Jonathan Miller gives some tips for thinking about intonation in the lower register, and his comments apply to the double bass as well: First and foremost: sing squarely in the middle of the pitch. Most bass notes work well with this rule, [...]
Blogging versus Real Life
Yazan: Jason | 31 January 2007 | No Comments
Categories: blogging
My ‘real life’ (although I certainly consider this blog a part of my real life) has been getting in the way of my writing over the past month, making it difficult to create new content and make improvements to the blog. Fortunately, my schedule is easing up slightly starting next week, and I am working [...]
Tony vs. Paul – Stop Motion Strangeness
Yazan: Jason | 30 January 2007 | No Comments
Categories: humor, videos
This is a fun video from two guys with a lot of free time on their hands. I like how the letters melt off of the paper about one minute into the video.
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