Stories, videos, questions, and more:
- You owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of Xavier Foley’s stellar Irish Fantasy – it’s on my iPad Pro right now and I’m working it up bit by bit on the metronome (also check out this video of Xavier playing it)
- Also, here’s another video from Xavier on different styles of vibrato
- Reggie Workman: Upright Legend (from Bass Musician Magazine)
- Curious about how people warm up before playing bass? Here’s a thread with 50+ comments on what folks do.
- Drummer Tom Hipskind has valuable advice on how to practice more musically with a metronome
- learn about organizing your digital music with the killer app forScore
- dig into Buffalo Philharmonic bassist Brett Shurtliffe’s fascinating journey through the orchestra music world
- Gaelen McCormick with Patricia Weitzel and the rest of the Gateways Bass Section
- past podcast guest David White sparks an interesting conversation on struggling with applying objective reasoning to why he likes a piece of creative work.
- cool beginner bass videos from past podcast guest Audrey Jo Williams
- submissions are now open for the 2020 David Walter Composition Competition
- Looking for a piece for 12 basses? Check out Arietta for 12 Basses by Teppo Hauta-aho from David Heyes’ Recital Music
- Edmond Cheng is a master of organizing bassists globally – his Music Center is a model to emulate
- Leon Bosch is working on a new piece for double bass called Red Ink by composer Shane Woodborne, with whom he shares South African roots
- Learn about Luzia Vieira, one of the guest artists for Claus Freudenstein‘s 2019 Bavarian Bassdays
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