Grant Park Symphony and Northern Illinois University bass professor John Floeter put out a really interesting blog post earlier this fall, posing an excellent question: How do people determine the proportion of basses to other string sections for a particular...
Doublebassblog.org contributor Vito Liuzzi performs the Romanza Drammatica by Giovanni Bottesini: Vito Liuzzi – double bass prof.: Rosalba Lapresentazione – Piano
Hi everyone, Pete Tambroni here for a quick teaching tip. I find when I teach German bow, the frog often slips to the base of the thumb. This limits arm and wrist flexibility. To help the student keep the frog near the base of the fingers, I tell them to rest it on...
Folks out there may already be familiar with Animusic videos–they’ve been around for many years. To me, however, they are a great example of how creative people can be when envisioning music, and they are excellent videos to show young students and get...
I get really sick of shelling out $20 or $30 (or more!) for parking every time I play a gig. Add in expensive gas, the clogged Chicago freeways, and the aggrivation of maneuvering a bass in and out of cars and buildings, and I have to think long and hard about a job...
