I’ve written several times on this blog about both why I teach music and reasons why one might choose music teaching as a career. I’ve also wrestled with misconceptions across the performer/educator divide, finding myself alternately surprised, shocked,...
I had the opportunity to get to know French double bassist Thierry Barbe at this weekend’s International Society of Bassists Board of Directors meeting. Thierry performs in the Paris Opera and teaches at the Paris Conservatory, and he also manages the...
Pascal has only started this great project, which runs along the same lines as our Contrabass Conversations video lesson series with Andy Anderson or our Hans Sturm series on the Rabbath technique. This video is very concise and contains no dialogue, but I think that...
Bass Musician Magazine, the bi-monthly publication for which I write a regular column. This issue I contributed a piece on François Rabbath. Blog readers will have seen all this material before here on the blog, but you can check out this article for...
If At First You Don’t Succeed recently posted about a comment from bass blog contributor Benjy detailing his experiences studying the Rabbath technique. There is a lot similarity between Rabbath’s scale and arpeggio practice methodology and that of...
