Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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The IRIS Chamber Orchestra will be performing Saturday, January 13, 2007 at the Germantown Performing Arts Center with the great classical guitarist Jason Vieaux. Additionally, the orchestra will be premiering a work by composer Adam Schoenberg.
The program will consist of:

Adam Schoenberg - World Premiere of IRIS Commissioned Piece - Finding [...]

I was recently in a music technology lab at a local university. This lab had fifteen computers with MIDI keyboards and Finale installed. About half of these computers had Sibelius installed as well. At least 75% of these computers were sending back “registration code expired” messages, even though the university technical [...]

I have a few minutes to myself here in Memphis tonight, and I’d like to describe a couple of cool new features that Blogger has rolled out. As I mentioned earlier today, I have a new URL for this blog (doublebassblog.com). This is the sort of endeavor that normally produces much angst and [...]

I am out the door to Memphis, so I can’t put out my usual posts until after rehearsal tonight. You’ll be hearing from me today, just not until the evening hours. Before I take off, I just want to direct people’s attention to my new URL, which is http://doublebassblog.com. Now, the cool [...]

This is another in a series of videos from greatwallacademy.org. You can read more about this Chinese music program (and watch another video) on my previous post about the Great Wall Academy.

Here is another Despair.com poster posted recently by Dark Roasted Blend. I hope this isn’t how my podcast is going to work out.

French bassist Louis-Michel Marion recently got in touch with me after checking out my blog. He has a website himself that is extremely interesting and very artistic. I’m not sure whether to call it a blog or not, but it is set up like a blog, with a new post each week. [...]

I didn’t realize that Emily From Rantings of a Kontrabasssist is also playing in the Singapore bass quartet video I posted yesterday. Two bloggers in one quartet–not bad!

Michael Hovnanian recently put up a new post on his CSO Bass Blog with some left hand exercises he has been practicing. It looks like good stuff. I remember working on materials like this when I was studying with Michael. Note the use of the third finger in the low positions for [...]