The way that Dennis Whittaker approaches the bass resonates so strongly with me. Maybe it’s our shared background and similar pedagogical influences. Regardless, there’s something in the way he lays things out that makes me want to drop everything...
We’re continuing our beginner bass series here with an introduction to minor arpeggios. Last week, we dug into the potentially thorny topic of chromatic scales and a few methods I’ve used to get students started with these. We’ve also recently covered: one octave...
Throughout my formative years of piano and double bass study, I was consistently told to slow down. I didn’t want to slow down, I wanted to go fast, like Ricky Bobby. Little did I know that was and still is some of the best advice I have received. In my teaching,...
A few years ago, I was searching in vain for a YouTube video of one of George Vance’s Progressive Repertoire pieces. This search proved futile–the best thing I could find was a blurry cell phone video of a 12-year-old playing it at a recital. Frustrated at not...
I’ve been using forScore to organize my digital music for years, and I’ve really stepped up my usage in the past year. This is a look inside how I use the app in 2019 with forScore 11 and a follow up to my video and blog post about forScore from 2018. We...
