I can't believe I'd never seen this #bass documentary! I'm loving the scene with the elephant 😂 https://t.co/PR7zEmOyYH #classicalmusic
— Lauren Pierce (@bassicallyfab) November 21, 2015
The Great Double Bass Race (1978)
What a cool find! A BBC documentary titled The Great Double Bass Race covers the very first really big classical double bass event in Europe, which took place in 1978 and features a lot of familiar faces. It’s a little over an hour in length and features both...DaXun Zhang jamming and teaching on the double bass
Hat tip to Reddit user cosmicplacebo for this link to University of Texas at Austin Double Bass Professor doing a master class as part of the Mayerson Masters Artists Series. DaXun was on Contrabass Conversations back in 2008, and we had a great chat and got to...Double Bass Technique: My Favorite Methods
I’ve used pretty much every bass method as a performer and teacher. Simandl, Rabbath, Billé, Petracchi, Sevcik, Flesch, Levinson, and Vance (to name a few) have all spent time on my music stand, and my thinking about bass technique and the most efficient means...