Rodrigo Mata is an extremely creative upcoming double bassist, composer, and band leader from Guanajuato, Mexico. He has an amazing passion for the double bass community that everyone should keep an eye out for. Life Overseas Recently, Jason Heath had the wonderful...
John Clayton shared an inspiring post about his experience in arranging the Star-Spangled Banner for Whitney Houston’s performance. So many lessons to be taken from this one! Here is John’s original post. Whitney Houston’s Star-Spangled Banner Notes...
In The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky demonstrated an astonishing capacity for innovation, as an orchestrator as well as a composer. Examples of his prowess are too numerous to mention, so, in the spirit of not mentioning any, allow me to mention just one. Top of page 2,...
It can smell fear. Like a vicious feral animal, orphaned early, neglected, and abandoned. It has a primitive, atavistic awareness of your weaknesses, it knows what time you take out the trash and knows what it will find when it tips the bins over. It knows how to...
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...
