Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Here is a video that Matt Heller (hellafrisch blogger and Calgary Philharmonic member) recently posted on his blog. Here he plays an excerpt from the Prelude of the first Bach cello suite. It’s great to hear Matt play again after reading so much of his writing for the past year. Matt [...]

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Great bass photoset from Flickr
Kazakhstan photos
Franz Simandl in ceremonial dress
Chicago’s Millennium Park
Wind turbines from Dark Roasted Blend

OK–this has to be the best cat video ever. Excerpted from a Sci-Fi Channel program, this video highlights a cat who has been trained to eat with a fork as well as with a spoon and chopsticks. The cat actually holds these utensils (!) while eating!

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Nora, the piano-playing cat
more Nora footage
Tortoise on [...]

Double bassist John Floeter recently started a blog. John is on the bass faculty for Northern Illinois University, and he plays bass for the Grant Park Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Lake Forest Symphony, and many other Chicagoland ensembles. John is also my stand partner for the Elgin Symphony, and he plays bass for the [...]

The 2007 International Society of Bassists Convention will be taking place June 4-9 at Wanda L. Bass (fitting name) School of Music on the campus of Oklahoma City University. I imagine that many bass blog readers will be attending this event, and I’d love to hear your experiences during and after the convention. [...]

I just got a whole bunch of new submissions for the Virtual Master Class Project. If you’re new to the blog and don’t know about this very cool project, you can read up on it here. I will be putting these tracks out over the next couple of weeks, so feel free to [...]

I recently found this excellent post on the blog If at first you don’t succeed…
Rhythms are a good technique to use when you want to bring a passage up to speed. The other common technique is to play with a metronome, starting slowly, then gradually increasing the tempo.
What the rhythms do is increase the speed [...]

I just typed ‘double bass’ into Flickr (a great website I use all the time for storing and finding photos). Here’s what came up:
Not surprising, I suppose–after all, we always get fish results with bass searches. Still, it’s a fairly funny photo. Maybe this is what a lot of people think a [...]

Just a quick note to readers and listeners regarding upcoming guests for the next couple of weeks on Contrabass Conversations:

This weekend I will be putting out the next segment of our interview with Indiana University double bass professor Lawrence Hurst. John Grillo co-hosted this episode with me, and you will get to hear us [...]

Check out this excellent video of L’Orchestre de Contrebasses–it’s like an MTV music video for the double bass. Can you recognize the tunes?

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Boguslaw Furtok plays Bottesini Gran Duo Concertante
Trio bass’in tears it up
Paul McCartney plays the upright bass
Super Mario Bros on the upright bass
Edgar Meyer takes arco solo with Strength in Numbers