Dissertation on round-backed versus flat-backed basses

This lengthy (144 pages–I’m only partially through it) dissertation by Andrew William Brown was sent to be by bassist Steve Badach and addresses one of the longtime debates among bassists, namely the tonal differences between flat-backed and round-backed...

more Marcello recordings from Michael Hovnanian

Michael Hovnanian has continued to add new movements to his multi-track recordings of the Marcello sonatas.  Michael has been taking the six Marcello sonatas and recording solo and continuo lines for each of them.  It’s a great project to follow along with, not...

Andy Anderson’s double bass lesson series

I was poking around the other day at some old statistics, and I couldn’t help that, on YouTube alone, Andy Anderson’s double bass lesson series has been viewed over 88,000 times.  That’s especially remarkable considering that we initially...