Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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In part 3 of Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, we discussed all of the hassles that go into the modern double bass-laden air travel experience. While flying with a bass has never exactly been a joy, each passing year makes it more and more of a not fun experience.
This tale of mine happened [...]

I hope that folks enjoyed this weekend’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring Brad Opland (Chicago Symphony Ochestra member). If you haven’t checked it out, you can do so here. Fire it up and play it in the background while you’re reading the blog, download it to your iPod, or program (360)227-5632 into [...]

This is a post from double bassist from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music student Nicholas Hart. Nick will be contributing weekly posts to the bass blog about life as a music student in one of the nation’s most exclusive programs. I think readers will find this different perspective on the double bass world and the music [...]

Although I am a daily Chicago Tribune reader, this short article escaped my notice. Double bassist Jerry Fuller brought it to my attention, and I’m glad he did, because it really highlights the priorities a donor may have in choosing an organization for their philanthropy. Much of what is discussed below the quote [...]

Readers may have missed this post (the steady flow of new posts makes it hard to catch everything on the blog here) last week containing my musings on why so many bassists blog. Although there are players of every instrument who blog these days, I think it’s safe to say that an unusually high [...]

Double bassist Stan Haskins has put together a very engaging series of articles about double bass pedagogue Virginia Dixon on his blog Glued to the String. Virginia is a bass teacher specializing in the Suzuki Bass Program. She teaches in the west suburbs of Chicago, and she has been a long-time contributor [...]

I hope that readers enjoyed this week’s Contrabass Conversations interview with Chicago Symphony bassist Brad Opland. If you didn’t get a chance to listen to it, you can click here to check it out (or click the ‘play’ button in the sidebar while you’re reading the blog right now!).
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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with Chicago Symphony bassist Brad Opland. In addition to the interview, you’ll get a chance to hear Brad perform on the double bass in his own arrangement of Ibert’s Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte for bassoon and bass and hear Brad perform on the electric bass [...]

I just wrapped up a great session with Andy Anderson, who readers have heard from on numerous occasions in both interviews and recitals. Soon you will get a chance to see Andy demonstrate how he teaches all sorts of concepts on the bass, from basic concepts like holding the instrument to in-depth coverage of [...]

Lucite electric basses pop up from time to time–I believe that my father-in-law actually has one. This photo, sent to me by Eric Hochberg after he located it on TalkBass.com, is the first example I’ve seen of a lucite double bass:
If anyone has any other photos of lucite double basses, please let me know!
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