Navigating Music Careers – advice from Paul Ellison

Bass Blog reader Jon recently let me know about this great resource from Rice University bass professor Paul Ellison on career opportunities in music. This resource is especially relevant considering some of the subjects that have been explored in the past on this...

New poll – what is your educational background?

A new poll will be launched on the blog every week on Monday. I like polls–it’s interesting to see what readers think or to learn more about their background through such devices, and the results actually help a lot to guide the blog into the future.This...

Musical Charlatans

I heard this track a few months ago on the Project Studio Network podcast (a great show for people involved in recording or producing audio content).Some perceptive guy took a couple of Nickelback songs–How You Remind Me from 2001 and and Someday from...

Titanium Jr. by Donovan Stokes

Donovan Stokes, one of our guests back on Contrabass Conversations #13, wrote Titanium Jr. for double bassist Ken Fuller (seen playing in this video). The piece was premiered with orchestra earlier this year. Donovan is a great composer and bassist, and I think that...

New search function for the bass blog

I really must be a geek if I get this excited about a new search function on the blog, but it’s cool–really! Type a search term into the new box at the top of the blog, and see what happens. Cool, right? The results load up without the page having to...