Doublebassblog.org contributor Bill Harrison recently put out a new video demonstrating major triad fingerings on the double bass. Bill has made several instructional videos for jazz bassists in the past, and they are definitely worth checking out. Bill is the founder...
I love The Onion (America’s Finest News Source), and I love cats (as you can see from my dozens of blogged cat videos here), so how could I resist this story? This was forwarded to my by my good friend Tim Pearson: Kitchen-Floor Conflict Intensifies As...
Asked by a double bassist who just played a shaky audition, one of the faculty members listening to this player passed along this bit of wisdom: “Your audition was great….until you started to play the bass.”
Richard Davis and company will host the 15th Annual Conference for Young Bassists in Madison, Wisconsin the weekend of March 21-22, 2008. Billed as an event for double bassists from ages 0-18, this year’s workshop features clinicians Richard Davis, Virginia...