Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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This is a very interesting photo that double bassist John Tuck forwarded to me. You can see that someone decided to take the body of a bass and use it as the soundboard for a harp. I’m not sure how well that works, but it sure looks cool.
This photo is especially cool [...]

My blogging buddies from Singapore (Emily and PY) have started a site for their bass quartet called D’Bassists. They have a really slick slide show created by Slide, which is a great Web 2.0 application for making animated slide shows that can be incorporated into websites.
Long-time Bass Blog readers (late 2005/early 2006) may [...]

I am in the midst of a whole bunch of web projects right now, many of which I think readers will find very cool. I’ll elaborate a little more in the next few weeks, but I’ll have some very interesting things to announce in terms of resources for this site.
I have spent the last [...]

I’ve got a crazy weekend, so I have to be brief today.
If you’re in the area, come check out the Elgin Symphony play Sibelius 5 and the Elgar Cello Concerto. Daniel Hege is conducting and Alicia Weilerstein is the soloist for the Elgar.
Some great comments are coming in for tracks on the Virtual Master [...]

Double bass virtuoso Francois Rabbath will be holding a master class in Chicago on Tuesday, April 3 at 1 p.m. This class will be held in Buntrock Hall at Symphony Center. Symphony center is located at 220 S. Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. Click here for a map of the area and to [...]

This is a video of Colombian virtuoso Juan Gregorio Baquero and the Bogotá´s Philharmonic Orquestra. Irwin Hoffman is the Conductor, and the production values for the concert are quite high. It looks like it was lifted off of Colombian television or a DVD. Great close-ups of the double bass and the orchestra.
This is the second [...]

Here is the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is a 2 octave G major scale. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below the player.
Sometimes these players take 10-20 seconds to load, so give it a little time to play if it doesn’t start [...]

This is a post from double bassist from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music student Nicholas Hart. Nick will be contributing weekly posts to the bass blog about life as a music student in one of the nation’s most exclusive programs. I think readers will find this different perspective on the double bass world and the music [...]

I often wondered as I entered the classical music freelance world how one could possibly put together an income in this business. Some politically smart auditions I took my last year of graduate school helped me join the Chicago freelance scene fairly smoothly, allowing me to play with the best groups in the area [...]

Check out this super-cool video about the development and future of the internet. I really got a kick out of this video–very stylish and original presentation.