Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I recently found this fun program designed to calculate the worth of your blog. I’m not sure exactly how this number is being processed, but I assume that it involves the number and pagerank of people linking to your blog. Here’s my blog’s current worth:

My blog is worth $22,581.60.How much [...]

Michael Hovnanian recently wrote a post on his CSO Bass Blog about Max Dimoff’s warm-up packet. He writes about one of the string crossing exercises (a Simandl Gradus ad Parnessum-style exercise) in particular from these warm-ups and shows it’s application in passages from the orchestral literature. Check out his post here.
These exercises [...]

I have finally organized my MP3 practice tracks for double bass scales, solo works, and orchestral excerpts for the double bass. You can now view all of these tracks under the practice tracks tab at the top of the page. From this page you can either practice with the Flash player on [...]

Here’s a great story I recently found through the Chicago Classical Music blog. A trombonist decided to use his bell to shoot off firecrackers. Read the story here. I would have loved to see this happen.

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Double bassist Matt Heller is blogging again. Matt and I played together for the American-Russian Youth Orchestra and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and he attended graduate school here in Chicago a few years ago. He now plays double bass for the New World Symphony.
Matt’s blog is very literate and insightful, and it is [...]

I just added several new features to the Bass Page. At the top of the page are a whole bunch of tabs now which will guide you down into the catacombs of this blog. I will probably clean and tighten up these tabs over the next few weeks, but for now it should [...]

There is a new blog called the Sioux Falls Times that my friend Aaron Burman just pointed out to me. I grew up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and I will be checking in with this blog from time to time. I am also adding it to my blogroll.

After a long day of surfing, hacking, and tweaking, I have put some really cool new features into my blog that I think people will enjoy. The first new feature is above this post in the address bar of your browser. I have installed a Bass Page favicon (the bass clef you see [...]

Michael Hovnanian has been writing some posts on his CSO Bass Blog that would be very helpful to classical double bassists. He has been providing some fingering solutions for pieces that the Chicago Symphony has been performing recently.
Check out his Mahler 7 post or his Kodály Concerto for Orchestra post for some examples.
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