Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Several years ago I played double bass for the Pacific Music Festival, a summer music festival based in Sapporo, Japan. This festival was started in the late 1980s by legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein. In addition to the Pacific Music Festival (PMF), Bernstein founded the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and I played with this festival while [...]

Watching a lot of HBO’s Deadwood this summer has made me want to grow a moustache and ride a horse, or at the very least to learn how to speak like a 19th century man of adventure. I’m working on the latter by studying this great 19th century vocabulary guide:

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This is a really interesting video. It is amazing how Noah is able to keep a similar facial expression for all of these photos.

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This is a clever video created by Danielpi that I just discovered on YouTube. He takes Britney Spears’ “Oops…I did it again” and turns it into a fugue. He made it for a class project, and it is very cleverly done. I especially like the middle section where he has multiple shots [...]

The Punk-o-Matic is truly awesome. This is a Flash-based punk rock track generator. Click on the squares to increase the number of drum, rhythm guitar, or lead guitar repetitions. Once you start playing with it you will be hooked. You can save your tunes or load old tunes as well. [...]

I just found this really fun site courtesy of John C. Dvorak’s blog. Click the picture below to try it out! As you paint, click the mouse to change paint colors. It sounds like Eric Stamen created this program a couple of years ago.
John’s blog is a really great site. You [...]

I spent the last week in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and I drove back to Chicago today with my two cats (Dan and Angel) in the car. They are very sweet cats, but they do not make good traveling companions. The link below plays one minute of so of cat whining–they did [...]

This story is not bass or music related at all, but it is simply too good to pass up. I missed this particlar Colbert Report, but I found out about it from Corey Spring’s Newsvine page. Stephen Colbert used “Wikiality” for his “THE WORD” segment on the July 31 Colbert Report. [...]

My Libertyville students did a recital last month, and I assembled a small montage of their efforts set to the music of Vivaldi:

Because I have WAY too much time on my hands this summer, I decided to make a “bad film school” version of the same recital: