We’ve put out a lot of interviews in our 164+ episodes of Contrabass Conversations! At a certain point, it becomes hard to locate specific interviews. Out upcoming app will help, but I thought it would be helpful to review and categorize what we’ve done...
— Visit the Double Bassist’s Guide to Colleges – U.S. Edition — Though it’s always interesting to get feedback from readers and conduct surveys like this, I feel obligated to point out that studying music is not a...
The amount of helpful online content for bassists today is truly staggering. As an “old” guy, it’s hard to conceive of how many more resources young bassists have these days at their disposal. There’s so much, in fact, that knowing where to...
Kurt Muroki, Indiana University double bass professor and upcoming Contrabass Conversations guest, is featured in this video from D’Addario about the development of the Kaplan bass strings. This is an interesting video about the development of these new strings...
Double Bass Blog Guest Post by Jeremy Kurtz As a bassist, I have always taken advantage of all opportunities I find to play chamber music. Unfortunately, these opportunities have seemed to be exceedingly rare–at least, compared to those of my...
