Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Scott Chaurette gave my blog a nice mention on his Cow Country Bass blog last month. Thanks, Scott! He has set his blog up in a way that many music instructors would find useful. He’s got tabs at the top of the screen for various student resources (lessons, audio, and the [...]

Taiwanese bassist Mark Lock just got in touch with me. He has started a double bass blog, and it contains some really excellent writing. He also said some really nice things about my blog. Thanks a lot, Mark!
You can find his blog Firebird Winters in my bass blogroll over on the [...]

Bill Harris from Making Sense With Facilitated Systems linked to me in a recent post regarding the Visual Acoustics tool I recently blogged about. Thanks, Bill!

Guanaco recently linked to me in a post on Cellomania. I had not discovered this blog before, but it is really an excellent read. The author lives in Alaska and recently started learning to play the cello. This blog documents the experience of learning to play this instrument, and it is a [...]

There is an interesting recent article from eWeek.com describing how as classic journalistic integrity and ethical principles are being adopted (or not adopted in some cases) by bloggers. According to a recent Steven Vaughan-Nichols column, several bloggers who wrote about Microsoft products received “Christmas gifts” of Acer Ferrari laptops valued at $2,299. Both [...]

Readers will now be able to see all of my posts on higher education and on freelancing by clicking on the appropriate tabs at the top of this blog. I plan on writing much more about these topics, so you will now be able to access all of these posts with the tabs.
If you [...]

There is quite a discussion going on in the comments for a recent post on Michael Hovnanian’s CSO Bass Blog. Michael mentioned that the Chicago Symphony has made their ‘Welcome Yule’ concerts a required part of the season rather than a “members of” optional service. This prompted many comments from people pointing [...]

I’d like to thank Patty Mitchell for mentioning both my pay-per-student post and my Nutcracker story on her recent post from oboeinsight. She mentions a very funny incident from a Nutcracker performance in San Jose. This great story was also told by someone else in the comments of my Nutcracker story. Patty also [...]

I would like to thank Drew McManus for mentioning my recent post on Pay-Per-Student Teaching post on his excellent orchestra management blog Adaptistration. I am really honored to get such high praise from Drew, and I am glad that people are finding this to be useful information. Thanks, Drew!
Positive reception of this information [...]

As 2006 draws to a close I would like to highlight the more significant posts made this year on the Bass Blog. I started this blog a little less than a year ago and for the first six months basically just used it as a student management tool. The content management system that [...]