Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Among the 10,000 new options possible with my recent move to WordPress is the option to print any post.  Folks have been asking about this for a while now, and it was really hard (basically impossible in any useful way) to implement on my old Blogger set-up.  Check it out–it’s really slick.
BTW, I’m in [...]

People reading the bass blog on their Google Reader (or other RSS reader) won’t probably be noticing anything strange at the moment with this post, but folks reading this on the DoubleBassBlog.org site will notice that everything looks….different!  I finally made the move from Blogger to WordPress, which means two things:

There is a huge [...]

Blogger, my oh-so-flaky web host, seems to have been down for a good long while tonight, so my apologies to folks trying to access the blog.  I am planning on moving the site to WordPress very soon (maybe in the next few days), which would allow for a lot more control and flexibility.  I seem [...]

I blogged previously about the sudden and unfortunate demise of the International Music Score Library Project and how this may be a harbinger of things to come as the Internet age progresses.  One of my favorite podcasts, Buzz Out Loud, also weighed in on this story, and MusTech.net just wrote a post about it as [...]

Matt Heller filed this blog post under ‘extreme bass-geekdom’ on his blog hellafrisch, and he’s right, but I love it anyway. Check out Matt’s post for an example of a particularly clunky arpeggiated section from Smetana’s Ma Vlast. Matt plays it first in regular tuning and then with the A string tuned down [...]

Podcast guru Dave Jackson put out the audio rendition of my now oft-told car explosion story on his Musicians Cooler podcast this week.  He titled the episode ‘Holy Crap, My Bass is on Fire!’, which is truly an awesome title.  Thanks, Dave!
For those unfamiliar with Dave’s work, he runs the School of Podcasting (www.schoolofpodcasting.com) and [...]

I just stumbled upon a new music blog called Brass Tax, authored by a French Horn player.  Here’s a snippet from a recent post:
We’ve all heard the usual stuff from your average church choir member: "Thanks so much for playing, it sounds beautiful!" [...]

The Peabody Conservatory of Music has a new exchange program with the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, and Lee Philips, a 4th year double bassist at Peabody, just wrote a post on the Peabody Double Bass blog reflecting on his experiences in this overseas environment.  Lee writes:
I originally decided to come study here because [...]

I’ve been working on the Bass Blog Music Store, adding new items and tweaking the navigation.  If you haven’t checked it out recently, you can do so here.  There’s also a link in the menubar for the blog.  I’ll be adding many new items in the coming week or so as well (along with 10,000 [...]

I’d like to take a moment and thank double bassist and gambist Phillip Serna for his wonderful ongoing series Early Music Perspectives, which he is guest posting at DoubleBassBlog.org.  Phillip has been interviewing a wide variety of early music specialists for this series, and it has been fascinating learning more about these musicians and about [...]