Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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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 [...]

September begins my tenth month of blogging. I was recently going over my archived posts from my first couple of months with this blog, and it is pretty painful to read these old posts. My blog (to me, at least) has gotten a lot better over the months, and I hope [...]

Recently I have been playing around a lot with Eyespot , the video shaing/editing/mixing application by David Dudas and company. Eyespot was created in 2005 and is really a cool application. Although it has only a fraction of YouTube’s juggernaut of a user base, Eyespot is definitely worth a visit. You can [...]

I just added two new tracks to my podcast Jason Heath’s Double Bass Performances. They are both live cuts or pieces that I premiered by the composer Bjorn Berkhout. Bjorn is a member of the Loyola University faculty and is an internationally recognized composer. His music has been performed by the [...]

I just found this really fun site courtesy of John C. Dvorak’s blog. Click the picture below to try it out! As you paint, click the mouse to change paint colors. It sounds like Eric Stamen created this program a couple of years ago.
John’s blog is a really great site. You [...]

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 [...]

Recently I have been using Odeo, the podcasting/content management system, for my double bass MP3 audio content. It is a very slick service. They give you very easy-to-use content management tools. Odeo will host your audio content for free (unlimited), and they provide you with many methods of accessing, publicizing, and distributing [...]

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 [...]

I have just created a double bass podcast of my solo performances. It is called Jason Heath’s Double Bass Performances, and it consists of live recordings of my double bass playing over the last few years. It is listed in iTunes–just search for “double bass” or “Jason Heath”. Also, you can subscribe [...]

I am in the process of transferring my June recital on Gary Karr’s former bass onto my blog. You will be able to listen to the tracks here, download them, or subscribe to the recital itself as a podcast and have iTunes (or another such program) put it on your iPod.
Method #1: Click the [...]