Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

This is a kind of scary and sad video from YouTube (more actual music posts are coming tomorrow–I promise!). Burger the cat isn’t exactly making the best impression in this video:

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Matthew Wengerd posted a great video of the Ray Brown trio playing Summertime. Ray, along with Jeff Hamilton on drums and Gene Harris on piano, really tear it up here. This is a great take on a classic tune. Check out his post here, and check out the video below:

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This guy has created a great hair-metal band rendition of the Pachelbel Canon for guitar and MIDI synth. I especially like the chorus-drenched guitar sound and this guy’s gold-plated guitar!

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Check out this adorable little kid playing the drums. He’s only four years old, and he can play quite well. Is it that some people have rhythm and some people don’t, or is it something that can be taught? Obviously some people (like this little guy) just have it.

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Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 is one of the most frequently requested pieces for orchestral auditions. At least 75% of all auditions I have taken required this piece, and I have spent countless hours in the practice room working on it. Justin Cormia, one of my University of Wisconsin - Whitewater double bass students, [...]

A cardboard bass? Peter Tambroni sent me a link about this. Believe it or not, this actually appears to be for real. For around $50 you can order a kit from Bogdon Music to assemble a two string bass. The sound is not half bad if this YouTube video is for [...]

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 in [...]

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 [...]

Has anybody seen Snakes on a Plane yet? I will be seeing it soon. My cousin Barry Samson made the trailer for the movie. He has also directed some movies, including Ice Pawn and The Ice Runner.

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