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Archive for May, 2007

New VMC tracks coming out soon

Yazan: Jason | 30 May 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, student resources

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 comment and [...]

Practicing in rhythms

Yazan: Jason | 30 May 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, blogging, student resources

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 other kind of double bass

Yazan: Jason | 30 May 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: photography

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 ‘double bass’ [...]

Lawrence Hurst and Michael Hovnanian on upcoming Contrabass Conversations episodes

Yazan: Jason | 30 May 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, blogging, podcasting

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 [...]

l’orchestre de contrebasses

Yazan: Jason | 30 May 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: bass, bass videos, videos

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 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 [...]