Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Matthew Wengerd brought this post to my attention recently. It is from oboeinsight, a great music blog. Oboeinsinght is definitely worth checking out, even if you don’t play a double reed instrument. The writing is insightful and educational and covers a wide variety of musical topics:

All-The-Time Etiquette

Rehearsals and performances should [...]

Ars Technica recently announced that Google is starting the Google News Archive Search, a service that will allow for searches from selected sources up to 200 years into the past. Ars Technica reports:
You can think of the new search in one of two ways: a more specialized version of a regular Google [...]

Podcast for Teachers recently celebrated their 50th episode. This podcast is produced out of Fordham University’s Regional Educational Technology Center in New York City and co-hosted by Mark Gura and Kathy King. It offers a witty and edgy [...]

The Google Maps Mania blog recently did a post on the educational uses of Google Maps and Google Earth. For those who have not experimented with these services, Google Maps is Google’s web-based mapping program (similar to MapQuest or Yahoo! Maps), and Google Earth is a desktop-based program (that still uses the internet) that [...]

The Nashville Symphony is set to open its new $120 million Schermerhorn Symphony Center this fall. This orchestra has really turned itself around in the past several years–it is now one of the fastest growing orchestras in the United States.
Here is a quite from a recent Polyphonic.org story:
Did you hear? The’?re building a $120 [...]

I have mentioned this before on my blog, but double bassist Peter Tambroni’s excellent new work An Introduction to Double Bass playing is now available. I highly recommend this book. It is a well-crafted and intelligently conceived resource for beginners, experienced players, teachers, and parents.
Peter has been a clinician for many years [...]

I just added a really excellent music education blog to my Blogroll. It is called Catalysts & Connections, and it covers all sorts of topics in the field of music education. Check out a recent post here. Evan Tobias is the author of the blog, and he also maintains an excellent Blogroll. [...]

I just discovered a great educational resource for jazz musicians–I am surprised that I haven’t seen this site before. PlayJazzNow.com distributes play-along MP3 files for jazz practicing. They have tracks for drummers, bassists, vocalists, horn players, pianists, and vibraphonists. Here is the page for bass materials, and here [...]

Earlier this week Blogger unveiled its new Beta version. I have been playing with this service and am extremely happy with the new features Blogger is unveiling. Blogger, originally created by Pyra Labs was one of the pivotal fores n the explosion of the blogosphere over the last several years. [...]

I am working on adding some new features to my blog. In the navigation bar at the top of the blog you will now see a “downloads” tab. It’s taking a while, but I am making available several hundred MP3s, PDFs, and the like that I have generated for my own double bass [...]