Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

My Libertyville students did a recital last month, and I assembled a small montage of their efforts set to the music of Vivaldi:

Because I have WAY too much time on my hands this summer, I decided to make a “bad film school” version of the same recital:

I’d like to mention that I have just started contributing to BIG BOTTOM, a really excellent website for both electric and double bassists. BIG BOTTOM is managed by Dale Cruse, and it is full of varied and interesting posts by several contributors. I will be writing some original posts for the site, [...]

I have just created a double bass podcast of my solo performances. It is called Jason Heath’s Double Bass Performances, and it consists of live recordings of my double bass playing over the last few years. It is listed in iTunes–just search for “double bass” or “Jason Heath”. Also, you can subscribe [...]

I am adding a couple of new sites to my Blogroll. Rockabillybass.com is a site maintained by Shawn Burrell. It is an excellent site about rockabilly bass in general, with interviews, forums, gear talk, lessons, and the like. There are also set up tips and rockabilly links. One lesson covers [...]

Rolle from BassFireBlog just left me a comment pointing out these two great sites from Jonas Lohse in Germany. One site is his own blog:http://www.kontrabassblog.de/
It is an all-German site. My German is pretty terrible, so reading the posts is slow for me, but it is a really excellent blog. He has [...]

Playing movements of the Bach cello suites is a must for all bass players these days. It is a requirement for many (if not most) orchestral auditions, and it is a bass player’s only real opportunity to play solo works from this great master.
Several challenges arise when playing the Bach cello suites. The [...]

I am beginning to create a double bass blogroll for my site, and one thing I am discovering is how few double bass blogs there are out there. This is surprising to me. Most of the ones that I have found haven’t been in the U.S. My favorite bass blog by far [...]

I am in the process of transferring my June recital on Gary Karr’s former bass onto my blog. You will be able to listen to the tracks here, download them, or subscribe to the recital itself as a podcast and have iTunes (or another such program) put it on your iPod.
Method #1: Click the [...]

I just stumbled across this great video of violinist Maxim Verngerov and several bass players playing Monti’s “Czardas”. Does anyone know who these bassists (particularly the one playing the solo part) are? Leave me a comment if you know. Stephen Swanson (of the Spokane Symphony) tells me that the solo bass is [...]

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