Rodrigo Mata

Rodrigo Mata

Rodrigo Mata is an extremely creative upcoming double bassist, composer, and band leader from Guanajuato, Mexico. He has an amazing passion for the double bass community that everyone should keep an eye out for. Life Overseas Recently, Jason Heath had the wonderful...
The Clef that Ate Sheboygan

The Clef that Ate Sheboygan

It can smell fear. Like a vicious feral animal, orphaned early, neglected, and abandoned. It has a primitive, atavistic awareness of your weaknesses, it knows what time you take out the trash and knows what it will find when it tips the bins over. It knows how to...
Incredibly Useful Exercises for Double Bass – an overview

Incredibly Useful Exercises for Double Bass – an overview

The way that Dennis Whittaker approaches  the bass resonates so strongly with me.  Maybe it’s our shared background and similar pedagogical influences.  Regardless, there’s something in the way he lays things out that makes me want to drop everything...
Chromatic scales – three ways to approach them

Chromatic scales – three ways to approach them

We’re continuing our beginner bass series this week with chromatic scales. So far, we’ve covered one octave major scales, minor scales, and major arpeggios. We’ve created a downloadable PDF guide for all of these, and we’ve got a PDF with these chromatic scale...
One Octave Major Arpeggios for Double Bass

One Octave Major Arpeggios for Double Bass

We’re continuing our series of beginner materials today with one octave arpeggios. So far, we’ve covered one octave major scales, one octave minor scales, and learning how to get a good sound with the bow. Each of these past installments has a downloadable PDF, and...