Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Home after a Lyric dress rehearsal. Doing some text and video blogging for the rest of the week. #
Uploading some fun new videos for DBB.org and Arts Addict. Gotta finish my crazy gig story for this week tonight. #
Relaxing with the cats and playing some Bioshock. #
Hanging out with Courtney. #
Doing some [...]

The Partial Observer - You’re paid?!
This is a fun column from violinist Holly Mulcahy about the surprised reaction from many audience members when they discover that you’re actually paid to be a musician.
(tags: classical music performance compensation)

Sticks and Drones: Challenge = Opportunity 6 - Plugging the Holes before Filling the Barrel part 1
From Ron [...]

We’ve had several individuals submit additions to our music school audition requirements page, so take a look and see what pieces are being asked from various institutions.  If you have any additions, please leave them at the bottom of the audition requirements page.
As this list expands, I’ll start to analyze this data and put together [...]

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The outstanding double bassist Guy Tuneh (www.guytuneh.com) performs the third movement Sextet in D Major with Villa Musica. Listen to Guy Tuneh in interview to his Contrabass Conversations page, and check out more videos from him here.

I just added two new features to the blog interface, so if you’re reading this in an RSS feed reader you may want to click over to the site and check it out for yourself.  There is a small area in the upper right sidebar for a featured story and a featured bassist.  Interested in [...]

I know that we’re well past the Messiah story trading season, but I couldn’t resist sharing this deliciously terrible video from double bassist Eric Steffens. Be sure to turn your speaker volume down–the person recording/transferring this had their settings really out of whack, and the audio quality is quite distorted. Still, if you [...]

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Jason discusses Scott Spiegelberg’s list of top 50 classical music blogs. Check the complete lists out here:

Top 50 classical music blogs - Google
Top 50 classical music blogs - Technorati

Some really crazy storm systems are rolling through Chicagoland now. It was nearly 70 degrees today…in January! #
Making a few template changes to my blog and kicking back on a strangely balmy January night. #
Hanging out with Courtney and gearing up for an early morning tomorrow. #

My Way of Practicing the Double Bass, Part 1: Hours
From Ben Huff: “Practicing is another one of those things, like auditions, that everybody has their own take on. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve talked to, articles I’ve read, and podcasts I’ve listened to that talk about how to practice….”
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Double Bassist Magazine, the United Kingdom publication that has provided quality content about the double bass for the past decade, will be ceasing production after their Winter 2008 issue.  I’m a longtime reader of Double Bassist, and though I’ve never been a subscriber (a subscription to this bimonthly magazine cost as much as a yearlong [...]