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One of the biggest challenges for a blogger is making useful older content easy to access without becoming an annoying self-promotion machine.  I am always struggling with this, and I’ll probably do highlight posts like this every once in a while.  These are a few of my favorite blog stories and resources from the [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode continues Andy’s discussion of spiccato strokes, and it should prove to be quite informative.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as all of our other blog/podcast bass [...]

Ever since wrapping up Road Warrior Without an Expense Account, my ten-part series on life as a classical freelance musician, I have been getting e-mails encouraging me to publish this work in book form.  Although I have been kicking this idea around in the back of my mind for some time now, my busy pace [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode delves into the topic of spiccato–a topic that we’ll be exploring in depth in the following few episodes of this virtual lesson series.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as [...]

This topic was actually the very first personal narrative ever attempted here on the blog, a little less than a year ago. While I still enjoy this previous post (with pictures of the described drive), the topic of all-night commuting is such a painfully bizarre one that I thought it could stand to [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode delves into the topic of spiccato–a topic that we’ll be exploring in depth in the following few episodes of this virtual lesson series.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode covers developing articulation in the bow.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as all of our other blog/podcast bass videos) in the bass blog video player in the [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode covers techniques used in articulation and connecting long notes.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as all of our other blog/podcast bass videos) in the bass blog video [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode covers techniques used in developing smooth bow changes.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as all of our other blog/podcast bass videos) in the bass blog video player [...]

We’ve gotten some really fantastic comments on last week’s post about discouraging professional performance ambitions in music education students–this post obviously struck a chord with many readers.  You can check out all of the comments on this post here, but I’ll share a few of them here as well:
Jerry Fuller writes:
I found your comments on [...]