Archive for the 'bass humor' Category
Merry Xmas from Portugal
Yazan: Jason | 29 December 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass humor
From bassist Márcio Domingues: As my contribution for some laughs here’s a wonderful cartoon. This is from Quino, the great cartoonist from Argentina, author of Mafalda. For better effect you should first see the cartoon and then read the translation of the joke here. The text reads as follows: “So, now that we are home [...]
Celebrate Thanksgiving with the world’s best bass video!
Yazan: Jason | 26 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass humor, bass videos
Here’s a classic from the blog on your post-turkey digestive day. I still get tears in my eyes at this one even after a couple hundred viewings. As one of my colleagues pointed out to me when I blogged this years ago, check out which bow gets the “special” treatment. …or, as our young eastern [...]
Ohio State bass studio as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Yazan: Jason | 21 December 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass humor
There are 7 guys and one gal in The Ohio State University bass studio of Paul Robinson, so what better way to celebrate Halloween and the 75th anniversary of the classic Disney film “Snow White and Seven Dwarfs” than to dress like the movie? Paul, a true film buff, even matched all the colors to [...]
François Rabbath throws a bass out the window
Yazan: Jason | 09 December 2009 | 14 Comments
Categories: bass humor, bass videos
It seems that François has embraced the world of online video recently. You’ve got to love this video (caught from every angle) of him destroying a cheap bass. I’m hazy on the details of this story from his past, but I seem to remember that this is what François did many decades ago to upgrade [...]
How “Not” to Play Hindemith?
Yazan: Phillip Serna | 09 November 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, bass humor, bass videos, Phillip Serna, Uncategorized
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPzcsPVyVdM My student Dave Elbrecht pointed this out to me. Here’s what the video includes as commentary: A "how not to play" demonstration of the Hindemith Double Bass Sonata, 3rd movement. Don’t play it too slow! Otherwise it will sound like this. Also, be kinder to notes at the ends of phrases, otherwise they [...]
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