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Archive for the 'Jeff Weisner' Category

PBDB: Beware the Outliers, Part 2

Yazan: jeffweisner | 21 July 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Jeff Weisner

(crossposted from PBDB) In my last post, I defined what “outlier” means and how it applies to bass playing. In this post I’ll make some comments on how we all can cope with, and learn from, outliers – whether we are one or we are learning from one. If you are a student, you need [...]

PBDB: Beware the Outliers, Part 1

Yazan: jeffweisner | 08 July 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, education, Jeff Weisner

(crossposted at PBDB) Outlier: a data point that falls far from most other points; a score extremely divergent from the other measures of a set. I first became familiar with the concept of “outliers” when my brother came home from his new job wearing T-shirt of the company softball team – it was their team [...]

Double Bass Socialism Part II: Equipment Fixes for Cheap

Yazan: jeffweisner | 03 June 2008 | 5 Comments
Categories: bass, Jeff Weisner

This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass.  Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts. ____________ In my last post I looked at the systemic problem: Having great instruments and bows can help you become a better player, but to have the [...]

Michael Hersch Recital in NYC this Sunday – Great new music for bass

Yazan: jeffweisner | 09 May 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, events, Jeff Weisner

This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass. Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts. ____________ Some of you may have read a few of the posts in my series here about my new music recital [...]

Double Bass Socialism

Yazan: jeffweisner | 05 May 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: advice, Jeff Weisner

This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass. Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts. ____________ (crossposted at PBDB) I am often most frustrated as a teacher not by anything about my students or about myself, [...]