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Here’s another instructional double bass video from www.mucony.com, this time featuring Manhattan School of Music bass instructor Jay Anderson teaching a student.

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Bass player III, originally uploaded by Tian!.

Hydraulic stages are both a blessing and a curse!  I’ve played on them in a  variety of venues, and while they’re usually a blessing for stage and pit logistics in multi-use halls, they can yield some amusing (and potentially disastrous) unintended results.
Up, down, up, down…
I have played performances with a variety of groups in Milwaukee’s [...]

 

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We’re featuring music from Louisiana Philharmonic Principal Bass Dave Anderson on this week’s Eclectic Bass episode. Learn more about Dave on his MySpace page, order Dave’s compositions here, and check out our interview with Dave here.
Tracks played:

“Teen Town” by Jaco Pastorius
“Surf Ride” from Yule Logs by Dave
“Schweik Fahrt” featuring Dave and Hal Robinson
Quintet Mvt. [...]

A recent article in the Chicago Tribune (Sunday, April 20, 2008 by Howard Reich) on the dramatic increase in music school funding caught my eye over the weekend. Several prominent music schools have new facilities either recently completed or in the planning stages, and the figures are pretty significant:

$22 million - Oberlin Conservatory [...]

Last week we featured a video of Metropolitan Orchestra Principal Bass Tim Cobb working with New World Bassist and Eastman graduate Matt Abramo on the first movement of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40.  Check it out here if you missed it.
This week, we’re featuring another video of Tim teaching bass, this time covering the first movement [...]

Double bassist Kirsten Paige has completed the second and third movements of her transcription of the Beethoven Spring Sonata.  You can check out all of her transcriptions below (or visit our bass blog downloads page anytime to check out all our offerings):
Transcriptions by Kirsten Paige:

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, op. 24 (the [...]

We’ve got a set of all-music shows that we’ll be bringing out to complement our interview shows, so folks just looking to listen to some great bass playing can get their fix.

Anyone who’s spent some time in Chicago on a Wednesday morning knows that this is when the city tests its emergency alert system. These loud sirens can be heard all over downtown Chicago for a few minutes each week, letting folks know that the city is ready for emergency situations.
The Grant Park Symphony [...]

Building upon last week’s post about how driving expenses eat into one’s gig income, Drew McManus from Adaptistration put together an extremely cool online utility for Inside The Arts.  Type in a set of parameters (distance to gig, cost of gas, mileage of car), and you get an estimate of the profit (or loss!) [...]