Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I will be appearing on The Engaging Brand podcast as an interview guest in the coming weeks! Here’s a description of what this program is all about (from their website):
The Engaging Brand - for leaders and managers who want a powerful personal leadership brand, improving their career prospects and building an employer brand [...]

I conducted an interview with Minnesota Orchestra bassist Colin Corner earlier this week. Colin just finished his first season in this great ensemble, and he was previously a member of the Vancouver Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic. We chatted about practicing, life in these various ensembles, basses, bows, strings, and similar topics. [...]

Contrabass Conversations guest Ranaan Meyer performs Vittorio Monti’s Czardas on this special video episode of Contrabass Conversations. Visit www.contrabassconversations.com to see more great bass content like this, and check out ou interview with Ranaan on Contrabass Conversations #28.

Ranaan is the bassist for the great trio Time for Three, and you can check out more [...]

 

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This week on Contrabass Conversations we bring you an interview with string teacher and double bassist Peter Tambroni. Peter has written a book titled An Introduction to Double Bass Playing, and he has many valuable ideas regarding double bass pedagogy. Arizona bassist Robert Matheson is also featured on this episode. Enjoy!
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Blog readers will notice that the ‘Listen to the Podcast’ section of the sidebar has been revamped, and I’d like to take a moment and briefly explain what this new podcast interface does. With the CrowdAbout widget I just installed, you can skip to selected areas of a podcast. Check it out and [...]

I am currently working on integrating a system called CrowdAbout into the Contrabass Conversations podcast. CrowdAbout (and several other services) allow producers (as well as listeners) to put virtual push-pins into podcast files, labeling where various events occur and providing links to more resources.
Listeners can leave comments at specific points in episodes. These [...]

I’d like to thank all of the people who have written in with their positive comments about Guy Tuneh. Every day we continue to get even more comments coming in, and it is obvious that hearing him play and speak is really affecting people. I’ll be looking forward to putting out the rest [...]

I’d like to thanks everyone for the great feedback on last week’s podcast episode with Guy Tuneh! Expect to hear the rest of this interview very soon. We will be wrapping up our interview with François Rabbath this week and featuring music for bass and ukulele by Seattle-area bassist Matt Weiner. Ukulele [...]

I’d like to let readers now that Contrabass Conversations will be a part of Bass Musician Magazine, a bi-monthly virtual publication (free to subscribe) debuting this August. This online magazine has a huge amount of potential, and I am excited to see how it develops. Even though it hasn’t launched yet, you can [...]

Readers of the blog may have noticed this already, but we have had a huge amount of activity in the comments about the Guy Tuneh podcast episodes. We’ve had well over 100 comments on the various episodes featuring Guy Tuneh, and hearing from people who have been inspired by this great artist is really [...]