— 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...
LA Philharmonic bassist David Allen Moore (we recently reposted his Contrabass Conversations interview–check it out!) has a great video on Musaic, the video site created and curated by the New World Symphony (a fantastic resource, by the way). It’s really...
I’m doing a presentation this Saturday for the Illinois American String Teachers Association on apps that I use for teaching. Honestly, tech is so tightly integrated into what I do with students that it’s hard to even think of specifically what I use on a regular...