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The following is a short excerpt from the E-Bass Line Newsletter from the International Society of Bassists. Receiving this newsletter each month is one of the many benefits for ISB members, including special rates on instrument insurance, the excellent journal Bass World, the paper edition of the Bass Line, and much more! Check out [...]

The following is a short excerpt from the E-Bass Line Newsletter from the International Society of Bassists. Receiving this newsletter each month is one of the many benefits for ISB members, including special rates on instrument insurance, the excellent journal Bass World, the paper edition of the Bass Line, and much more! Check out [...]

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 come [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We’ve got a new poll up on doublebassblog.org–how often do you take a day off from playing? No gigs. No lessons. No practicing. Just a 100% instrument-free day. Let us know!

Double bassist Kate Nettleman, a previous Contrabass Conversations guest and a frequent extra musician with the Chicago Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra, has recetly accepted a position as Principal Bass of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. This is exciting news for Kate, and I am really happy that this outstanding musician has been put in place in [...]