Last week I wrote a piece covering the Joshua Bell train station busking story that has been floating around the Internet. Many bloggers have added their two cents to this story (you can visit my previous post for links to some of these other bloggers’...
I have a page with a (slowly) growing collection of odds and ends for download. You can visit this downloads page here. In addition to technique routines from various bass players and some transcriptions of pieces, here are currently scale fingerings that I created...
The Internet Archive (if you haven’t been there before, check it out–you’ll lose hours of your life poking around) has a really cool feature called the Internet Wayback Machine. With this web application you can enter the address for a site you like...
I mentioned in a recent Contrabass Conversations episode that I would be sharing Canadian bassist Meredith Nelson’s experiences with double bass plane travel over the years. It is a great reflection of all the garbage we bassists have to deal with just to bring...
Here’s a little lighthearted fun from Dark Roasted Blend. Check out their original post for more pictures of various animals in action:My cats do this kind of thing all the time:This squirrel is about to make a terrible mistake:This cat is about to learn an...
