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This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode continues Andy’s discussion of spiccato strokes, and it should prove to be quite informative.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as all of our other blog/podcast bass [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode delves into the topic of spiccato–a topic that we’ll be exploring in depth in the following few episodes of this virtual lesson series.
You can view all the released episodes of this series [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features the conclusion of our interview with double bassist Michael Hovnanian. Click here to listen to Michael’s previous episodes (CBC 24 and 29). Michael has been a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1989, and he serves as the president of Discordia Music (double bass music publisher). [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode delves into the topic of spiccato–a topic that we’ll be exploring in depth in the following few episodes of this virtual lesson series.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode covers developing articulation in the bow.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as all of our other blog/podcast bass videos) in the bass blog video player in the [...]

We’ve had a really enthusiastic response to our Ranaan Meyer interview episode (featuring a healthy amount of music from the excellent band Time for Three) and video episode of Ranaan playing his tune I’m Tryin’.  In fact, we’ve been getting great responses to all of our recent (and previous) Contrabass Conversations projects, including our Orchestral [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode covers techniques used in articulation and connecting long notes.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as all of our other blog/podcast bass videos) in the bass blog video [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode covers techniques used in developing smooth bow changes.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as all of our other blog/podcast bass videos) in the bass blog video player [...]

This past weekend we released a Contrabass Conversations episode featuring double bassist John Grillo that the major double bass excerpts requested on auditions. I strongly feel (and I know that John agrees) that this project will have a real and lasting impact on the greater double bass community for years to come. This [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode gets more in-depth with the French bow hold, featuring many exercises and close-ups of Andy’s bow hand and arm in action. We get a lot of close-up shots of Andy’s bow [...]