Yazan: Jason | 24 March 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, cats, photography
This is a familiar sight in the Heath household, though the case is usually on my bass when my cats get on them!
Yazan: petertambroni | 24 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Peter Tambroni
Hi readers, Peter Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com. I have a few announcements. -The fifth edition of “An Introduction to Double Bass Playing” is now available. Again, more updates, refinements, fixes and pictures. -I have a new blog called The Evolving Educator. As a music educator I decided to create a site specifically for educators / [...]
Yazan: Jason | 23 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass videos
Here’s a video of the rarely performed but extremely satisfying Tubin Concerto for Double Bass by Venezuelan bassist Edicson Ruiz (www.edicsonruiz.com).
Yazan: Jason | 21 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, Contrabass Conversations, podcasting
We’re featuring the second part of our interview with Boston Symphony Assistant Principal Bass Lawrence Wolfe this week on Contrabass Conversations. I had a chance to check out a wonderful master class that Mr. Wolfe did at Northwestern in the fall of 2008, and I did a summary/synopsis of some of the concepts and ideas [...]
Yazan: Jason | 20 March 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: bass
When a bassist would play as a substitute player in the Columbus Symphony, Principal Bass Mark Morton would give the player this sheet of tips for playing effectively in this orchestra’s bass section. I find this list of tips very interesting; it’s the exact sort of thing that section members talk about amongst themselves but [...]