Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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I have been checking in regularly with Corner Violin Shop, a blog started by A. Cavallo Violins about daily life in a violin shop. This blog is an outstanding example of a small business utilizing the power of social media (like blogs, podcasts, Facebook, YouTube, and the like) to establish a connection with [...]

Bass blog contributor Nick Hart sent me a link to this great video of University of North Texas and Cleveland Institute of Music bass professor Jeff Bradetich performing the B.B. Wolf by New York Philharmonic bassist Jon Deak. We will be featuring some compositions by Jon Deak this fall on the podcast, so [...]

The double bass airline experiences survey is still open, so please take a moment and fill this out if you haven’t done so yet. We’ll be compiling this data and making it viewable to readers in the next few weeks.
Part of the survey includes an area to leave your own double bass travel experiences, [...]

The highly useful podcast text search tool EveryZing continues to both amaze and amuse me daily. It does a good enough job with the speech to text transcription to allow for really useful search results, but if you actually sit down and read the transcripts, you’re likely to find yourself rolling on the floor, [...]

Here is the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is a recording of the Mahler 1 bass solo. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below the player.
Sometimes these players take 10-20 seconds to load, so give it a little time to play if it [...]

Greg Sarchet (Bass Club Chicago, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University) for several years has handed the following list of recommended texts out to his incoming double bass students. These books touch on all sorts of issues relating to musicians and serve as a course for developing an aesthetic sense, which is something [...]

This is a video of Lawrence Wolfe, assistant principal bass of the Boston Symphony and bass instructor at the New England Conservatory, performing some short Koussevitzky pieces on a Luis and Clark carbon fiber bass and bow. Quite a nice sound, although a player like Mr. Wolfe could make a $500 bass sound fantastic. [...]

The Jason Seed Elixir Ensemble, the group that we featured on the blog yesterday, will be performing on September 6 at the Elbo Room in Chicago, Illinois. They go on at 11 p.m., so if you’re in the area (and many readers are), check this excellent group out!
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I want to put this sign on my studio door:
(image credit - Mike Licht)
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Bill Harrison from PlayJazzNow.com has made some sample tracks available to Bass Blog readers. Just click the downloads tab to check out these tracks for yourself. At PlayJazzNow.com there are tracks available for all instruments. These particular tracks allow the jazz bassist to practice walking bass lines and solos.
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