Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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I recently stumbled upon this interview that double bassist Peter Tambroni did with Martin Simpson. Martin has a website called Interviews with Overseas Bass Folk. It’s a great resource, and I just added it to my blogroll under “non-blog bass sites”.
Pete is a great double bass player and educator. He recently [...]

Many musicians are familiar with the distinctive (to put it mildly) vocal stylings of Florence Foster Jenkins. Convinced of her greatness, she became a cult sensation for her unabashed badness. For those who aren’t familiar with her, here is an excerpt from her Wikipedia entry:

Born Florence Foster in 1868 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, [...]

I have finally organized my MP3 practice tracks for double bass scales, solo works, and orchestral excerpts for the double bass. You can now view all of these tracks under the practice tracks tab at the top of the page. From this page you can either practice with the Flash player on [...]

I caught this story on a recent post from Music Education Magic:
The eighth annual “Best 100 Communities for Music Education” survey is currently accepting online submissions, and will remain open through January 23. The survey, which can be completed by visiting AMC on the Web at www.amc-music.org, is open to anyone-parents, teachers, school administrators, community [...]

I have made many posts about the Whitewater Winter Bassfest in the past. If you want to find out more information about past clinicians, activities, schedules, and more just click here. Many prominent musicians from major orchestras have served on the faculty over the past five years as well as some dynamite Chicago [...]

I have quit my teaching job at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, but the Bassfest that I started five years ago still lives on. Scott Kreger, the new double bass instructor at UWW, will be continuing the festival, and he is having me back this year as a clinician. Scott is a double bassist [...]

This is a post continuing the discussion of various double bass fingering methods. You can read the complete conversation here. Feel free to add your comments to any of these posts. If you have more extended thoughts or additional methods that you would like me to include as a separate post feel [...]

The Official Google Blog recently wrote a post about Google’s new partnership with Teach for America. Google states:
In recognition of the strengths exhibited by Teach For America corps members and their strong commitment to education, Google is offering two-year deferrals to individuals who are accepted into Teach For America’s program and who also [...]

There was a great article in this Sunday’s Chicago Tribune Magazine about the rising cost of college tuition. The article profiles Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, a school ranked in the third tier of national colleges by U.S. News and World Report. Tuition costs have doubled at this school between 2000 and [...]

One of my favorite podcasts is Rob Walch’s Podcast411. I discovered this podcast about six months ago and devoured all of Rob’s past episodes. It is really a fantastic podcast and a great way to discover new shows.
Rob had Dr. Kathy King from Podcast for Teachers on a few months ago, and [...]