Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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I’d like to thank all the clinicians, participants, UWW students, and vendors who attended yesterday’s Bassfest. I hope that you all had a good time attending the master classes, checking out all the double basses and bows, and working in the group sessions. We had a record number of students attending this [...]

1) Summary of Master Class by Boston Symphony Principal Bass Ed Barker
2) Joining Midwest Young Artists or Chicago Youth Symphony
3) Practicing With Technology
4)The Importance of Summer Festivals
5)Choosing Bass Strings
6)Bow Rehairing
7) Requirements for Music School Auditions (undergraduate)
Humidity and the Bass
9) Reaching the Low Notes
10) Buying a Bass Part I: Three Basic Categories

Here are some geeky but useful sites about bow hair–why we use horsehair, how rosin works, different kinds of hair, etc:
Splitting Hairs Study on Violin Bow Hair (also applies to bass)
Here are some general sites about the bow and how it works:
How the Bow Produces SoundThe Art of the BowGeneral Bow InfoA Bow on the [...]

Featured at this year’s Whitewater Winter Bassfest (Saturday, Feb. 11) will be instruments, bows, and other gear from Martin Sheridan of KC Strings and Aaron Reiley of Guarneri House. Each of these shops will have a wide selection of acoustic basses and bows for participants to try out at the Bassfest. KC Strings [...]

Throughout my website I have links to many different outlets for music, equipment, recordings, and accessories. If you want to keep things simple, however, I would recommend going to Lemur Music first. They have probably the best overall selection of music, strings, recordings, rosin, wheels, and the like. They even sell high-quality [...]

Libertyville Studio
Scott Ba.:
Scott’s action list: Vanhal 1&2, Eccles 1&4, B5 mvt 3, Br 1 E, Br 2 mvt 4 recap, Mozart 40 mvt 4 exc. 1, Mozart 39 mvt 1 pg. 1 (Allegro), all 3 octave scales - slur 4 notes, and 3 octave arpeggios - slur 3 notes, 1 Sturm etude, 1 Storch-Hrabe etude, [...]

Articles by Jason Heath:
Road Warrior Without an Expense Account - This series chronicles my experiences as a freelance musician and offers thoughts and observations on the classical music orchestral business in general. Although focused on classical musicians and freelance musicians in general, much of the discussion has relevance to musicians from all disciplines. [...]

Buy Music and see Recommended Repertoire at the Bass Blog Sheet Music Store!
Jason’s Scale Sheets (free PDF download)
one octave major and minor scales with fingerings
two octave major and minor scales with fingerings
Articles
All-State Audition Preparation by John Thompson
Article on Stretching by Nathan Cole
Video Resources

Downloads
Classical
Methods:

Tambroni, Peter: An Introduction to Double Bass Playing (highly recommended)
Max Dimoff Warm-Up Packet [...]

Finale RecitalThe finale recital is a short concert played by all the faculty of the Bassfest. We combine in all sorts of fun groupings–solos, duets, trios, quartets, and quintets–to bring the Bassfest to a close.Parents
All parents are welcome to stay for the whole day and sit in on any classes they like (no charge–just [...]

Applied Double Bass for Majors and Non-Majors, Spring - 2006
Professor Heath, CA 2003
Phone: 773-612-3597 / E-mail: jsh177@yahoo.com

SCHEDULING: All lesson times can be arranged with me during the first week of
each semester. If you have a conflict with your lesson time, you can switch with
someone else in the studio for that week. [...]