Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Merry Christmas from the Bass Blog! Thanks to Greg Sarchet for sending along this Santa pic to me.

When you play a piece like Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet time after time, year after year, sometimes you long for something (anything!) different to happen. Variety is good, even if it is a bad kind of variety. Well, last year at the Milwaukee Ballet we had some REAL variety down in the pit [...]

After reading a recent post on Matt Heller’s hella frisch blog, I found this delightfully maddening story about a recent audition experience from a Washington, D.C. violinist. Check out her tale on her blog Dragons and Princesses. She is just trying to warm up and some obnoxious Russian violinist comes into her warm-up [...]

After following a link on a recent oboeinsight post, I discovered this very funny trombone teacher doll fake ad from HotBrass.info:

Classical Trombone Teacher Doll:
* Polyester pants, golf shirt, and golf hat. * Tuxedo - Only available with Gigging Trombone Teacher Doll (supplies limited)
Jazz Trombone Teacher Doll:
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Here is a great shot courtesy of Greg Sarchet featuring the great double bass pedagogue Franz Simandl in full ceremonial dress. I especially like the sword he has on his belt. That Simandl was one fearsome bass teacher–one false move in your bass lesson with him could have proved to be your last.

I deeply apologize for posting this video, but it simply must be put out there. Ladies and gentlemen, I present…. Jingle Cats!

This is an absolutely hilarious video from Dr. Demento favorite Rob Paravonian. Rob hates the Pachelbel Canon and describes why in this very clever bit:

This YouTube video by Lasse Gjertsen is a real work of art. He can’t play piano or drums, yet through stop motion video editing manages to stitch together a complete tune. Check it out:

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 is [...]

One of the strangest and most interesting video podcasts I have come across is It’s JerryTime! Check this podcast out–the animation and stories are really surreal. Any of his episodes can be watched on his site, or you can subscribe via iTunes as well. This is a great example of something that [...]