Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 

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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 [...]

The following list is really geared toward younger musicians, and while we all can certainly stand to re-evaluate our own practice habits from time to time, I don’t want you to think that I’m “talking down” to you (or “blogging down”…or whatever!). These are a handful of common pitfalls that I have seen my students [...]

I had a comment recently regarding Contrabass Conversations that really hit on something that bugs me about the bass world. The commenter (who left it anonymously–something that I find irritating) asked why I don’t feature more Europeans on the podcast.
For the record, I really want to increase the coverage of European bassists on the podcast., [...]

The greatest video of all time? If not, it’s certainly in contention for it! Note the “funky” bass solo (!) in the middle of this tour de force of moldy cheese.
[via www.kraznoy.com]