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Archive for September, 2009

PBDB: The Care and Feeding of the Bass Teacher, Chapter 1: Identify your Teacher Type

Yazan: jeffweisner | 30 September 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

(crossposted from PBDB) Congratulations, you are the owner of an official authorized bass teacher! This may be your first real bass teacher. You may have owned several teachers before and are just now acquiring a new model. Or perhaps you have owned this teacher for awhile and are simply checking the owner’s manual out for [...]

Experibass – combining violin, viola, cello and bass

Yazan: Jason | 30 September 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass videos, bassist/composers

Sound designer, composer and (now) instrument maker Diego Stocco has created a hybrid instrument by combining a violin, viola, cello, and bass into one instrument. What a cool idea! Here’s a video of Diego putting together the instrument and playing this amalgamation (he uses drum sticks, a bass drum pedal, and even a fork to [...]

The Three Concertmasters

Yazan: Jason | 29 September 2009 | No Comments
Categories: events

The following event features three great Chicago concertmasters along with the Chicago Philharmonic (a group that I play with intermittently). David Perry also performs with the Midsummer’s Music Festival, a Door County, Wisconsin chamber music festival that I play bass with each June: The Three Concertmasters! A Violin Virtuoso Version of The Three Tenors – [...]

CBC 140: The American String Project – The Process of Collaboration

Yazan: Jason | 29 September 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, bass videos

The following video (25 min.) is a behind-the-scenes documentary about The American String Project, the innovative string ensemble which we have profiled previously on the podcast and blog. Artistic director (and former Contrabass Conversations guest) Barry Lieberman describes the documentary as follows: We have produced a documentary about the Project, created from extensive film footage [...]

Young deer bathing kitty

Yazan: Jason | 28 September 2009 | No Comments
Categories: cats, videos

My good friend Aaron Burman sent me this video of a cat being bathed by a young deer. Very sweet, though not terribly bass-related. My apologies. More blog posts about cats here.