Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Matt Heller put out a thoughtful post last week on his blog hellafrisch about Paul Ellison’s teaching style. You can visit Matt’s post here, but I’ll put out a few teaser quotes.
Matt paraphrases Ellison:
First there are the things that you know you know - that’s probably a small section, maybe 10 or 15 [...]

Double bass players and bass guitar players may want to check out this vacancy in the U.S. Army Field Band. If your audition CD is accepted, the Army Band will arrange for and cover all of your travel expenses. You can find relevant information about this position at the Army Field Band [...]

Boguslaw Furtok (a great bassist who has been featured extensively on this blog) is also a talented composer as well as performer. This video (in three short parts) is a live performance of the fifth movement of his Bass Quartet N. 5, performed here by “The Flying Basses” (members of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony-Boguslaw [...]

If I could do it again, there’s no way that I would have started this blog on Blogger. While I really like and appreciate the powerful toolset that Google makes available to the user with Blogger, and although I generally appreciate their (since Beta Blogger in 2006) reliable service and low (free, actually) cost, [...]

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Contrabass Conversations guest and bass blog contributor John Grillo is playing principal bass for The Princeton Festival, a summer music festival that opens this Saturday(6/23/07) with a performance of Bizet’s Carmen. John has mentioned that the singers and staging are superb, so this is definitely a performance to check out if you happen [...]

John Floeter put out a great post on his bass studio blog recently about his thoughts and observations on freelancing and auditioning. This post is quite relevant to many of my writings about the freelance business (which you can find under my Articles link).
Here are a couple of key points from this post:

I’m in [...]

This interesting story from Polyphonic.org ties in well with my thoughts and observations on future directions for the music business covered in Road Warrior Without an Expense Account Part X - Refocusing (Musical Entrepreneurship). You can find this complete series (and dozens of other long-form essays) under my new Articles link above the post [...]

Double bassist John Floeter (Northern Illinois University bass instructor, Grant Park Symphony section member) has really been turning his double bass studio blog into an excellent resource. In addition to offering up technique downloads for students (via Box.net–a great service for distributing these kinds of resources), he has started to write some longer-form posts [...]

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