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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 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 [...]

I was flabbergasted today during a discussion in one of my teacher certification courses when the course instructor suggested…well, actually, the instructor flat out told this class of music education students that it was unwise and unrealistic to expect to be able to both perform and teach at a professional level. This instructor [...]

Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi left some great comments on the blog recently, pointing to a video of the second and third movements of the Divertimento Concertante by Nino Rota. I had originally blogged about this back in April of 2007. Click here to check out the first part of this great performance by [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series.  This episode covers holding the bow and concepts and exercises to aid in the development of a solid bow technique.  We get a lot of close-up shots of Andy’s bow hand and the various bow [...]

Milwaukee Symphony and Grant Park Symphony cellist Peter Szczepanek sent me a link to this video featuring Stringfever playing Bolero. The thing is…they’re all playing it on one cello! Amazing. Now let’s see a bass quartet do the same thing. That gives me an idea…..

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This is the next part of my recital/demo/lecture for the Silk Music Camp last week. I played Rabbath’s Ode D’Espagne for the first part (you can check that out here) of the class, along with a “this is the bass” talk for the students. This video features more of that, plus a few [...]

This week we featured double bassist Daniel Nix on the Contrabass Conversations podcast performing “Beau Soir” by Debussy. Daniel is a very lyrical player who can really create a beautiful melody on the bass, and I enjoyed including his music on the episode.
Daniel also sent me a link to this performance of him playing [...]

This is a video of a section of my recital yesterday for the Silk Music Camp in Lisle, Illinois. I am doing a demonstration with the bass, and the first minute or so features me explaining some fundamentals of the bass. I’m basically improvising this demonstration as I go–I wasn’t sure of exactly [...]

Bass blog contributor Nick Hart sent me a link to this great video of University of North Texas and Cleveland Institute of Music bass professor Jeff Bradetich performing the B.B. Wolf by New York Philharmonic bassist Jon Deak. We will be featuring some compositions by Jon Deak this fall on the podcast, so stay [...]

This is a video of Lawrence Wolfe, assistant principal bass of the Boston Symphony and bass instructor at the New England Conservatory, performing some short Koussevitzky pieces on a Luis and Clark carbon fiber bass and bow. Quite a nice sound, although a player like Mr. Wolfe could make a $500 bass sound fantastic. [...]