What bass player doesn’t love to roll their sleeves up and start seriously feeling out on bass strings? In fact, it can almost become a sickness, and many players get to a point where they feel compelled to try out every single darn string they can get their hands on.
Also, strings seen to really [...]
We’re featuring two tracks from Contrabass Conversations contributor Kells Nollenberger and his new album with the Kaleidoscope Trio. Kells also has a podcast called The Jazz Exchange and guest hosted an interview with Steve Rodby for us in the past.
We’ll be hearing the first and last tracks from their new album Map to the [...]
Double bassist Benjy sent me a link to this uproariously funny (to a music geek, at least) video promoting all the “familiar favorites” written by the warm and cuddly trio of composers from the second Viennese school of composition: Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern. What timeless ditties these three tunesmiths wove!
Double bassist and blogger Joe Lewis recently wrote a book on web technologies, which is published from Apress/FriendsOfED:
Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript
http://tinyurl.com/5gluv3
Sandia National Labs (where Joe works as lead web developer) wrote up a story about my book project, and in it he discusses the intersections between music and science, and in [...]
Here’s a great video (with high production values to boot!) of University of North Texas and Cleveland Institute double bass professor Jeff Bradetich performing the Allemande from the first Bach Cello Suite. Very cool. I hope that Jeff knows his stuff’s out there on YouTube–something tells me that “deathgrind” (the username of the person who [...]
The following excerpts are from an upcoming book by double bassist and educator Peter Tambroni. Peter has written an excellent double bass method book titled An Introduction to String Playing, and he has been a guest on Contrabass Conversations as well. In addition to a career as an active double bass performer and teacher, Peter [...]
Here’s a great video (with high production values to boot!) of University of North Texas and Cleveland Institute double bass professor Jeff Bradetich performing the Prelude from the first Bach Cello Suite. Very cool. I hope that Jeff knows his stuff’s out there on YouTube–something tells me that “deathgrind” (the username of the person who [...]
We hope you enjoyed last week’s episode featuring the music of bassist Matt Weiner and ukulele player Del Rey. I think that this duo rocks, and I hope you enjoyed hearing those tracks from them.
This week, we’re featuring another all-music episode. I’m pleased to bring you some tracks from The Bass Gang, one of the [...]
The following excerpts are from an upcoming book by double bassist and educator Peter Tambroni. Peter has written an excellent double bass method book titled An Introduction to String Playing, and he has been a guest on Contrabass Conversations as well. In addition to a career as an active double bass performer and teacher, Peter [...]
Sound in Motion: A Performer’s Guide to Greater Musical Expression. By David McGill. Indiana University Press.
(crossposted at PBDB)
Having introduced everybody to the influential and important American pedagogue and oboist Marcel Tabuteau in my last book review, I thought I should review a couple of the books that focus on his teaching and playing methods. Certainly one [...]
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