Archive for September, 2009
Best of the ‘Viols in Our Schools’ GambaCast – William Byrd (1543-1623) – Out of the Orient Crystal Skies
Yazan: Phillip Serna | 04 September 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Early Bass, performances, Phillip Serna, podcasting, videos
Why teens don’t listen to classical music
Yazan: Jason | 03 September 2009 | 23 Comments
Categories: education, learning
I wrote this essay for school earlier this year. I had to take (drum roll) Basic Writing at my local community college in order to get my teaching certificate (yes–I also see the irony). Anyway, here it is. Do I actually believe all this? It’s certainly debatable–after all, I was a teen who loved classical [...]
Speaker Nightmares from Justin Locke
Yazan: Jason | 02 September 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass humor, bass videos
Former Contrabass Conversations guest Justin Locke is the author of a very funny book titled Real Men Don’t Rehearse. Justin has created several tongue-in-cheek YouTube video commercials for this book, and I get a kick out of this one:
Best materials for beginner bass teaching
Yazan: Jason | 01 September 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: bass, education
I bassist just beginning her journey as a double bass teacher wrote to me recently inquiring about what I consider to be a good approach toward starting beginners. Here’s my response: t’s great that you’re starting to do some teaching! The best series I’ve found for teaching beginners is the Progressive Repertoire series from George [...]
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