New VMC tracks coming out soon

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...

Practicing in rhythms

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...

The other kind of double bass

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...

l’orchestre de contrebasses

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?Related Posts:Boguslaw Furtok plays Bottesini Gran Duo ConcertanteTrio bass’in tears it upPaul McCartney...