Welcome to Buckeye Bass Bashes!
Welcome to Buckeye Bass Bashes from The Ohio State University School of Music, with bass professor Barry Green and co-host Jason Heath. This series is for upright, classical, jazz and electric bass players at any level. They can be played at school, as part of a bass sectional, or in a remote lesson or at home.
Learn about historic legends of the bass including Dittersdorf, Dragonetti, Bottessini and Koussevitzky as well as contemporary jazz and classical icons like Gary Karr, Francois Rabbath, Andres Martin, DaXun Zhang and Edgar Meyer. We also hear from jazz greats like Christian McBride and John Clayton, Victor Wooten, Esperanza Spaulding, Tal Wikenfeld, Nik West, and young superstars like Dominique Wagner, Phoebe Russell, Szymon Marciniak, Mikyung Sung, Aaron Olguin and more. Participate in clinics and enjoy connecting with the entire world of bass in these 30 minute bi-weekly episodes.
Wow! What an amazing project and so extremely worthwhile! I feel honored to be included in the first endeavor and I’m thrilled that you found all those videos of me. I loved your presentations and, having devoted part of my life to public school music, I really admire how you put this video together in such a way that it will be very appealing and captivating for all children (oldsters, too!). I’m in awe of your superb video capabilities and I look forward to seeing all eight of your series. Bravo to both you and Jason!
—your brother colleague: Gary Karr
EPISODE ONE
Barry and Jason: Introduction: OSU
Barry: G Major 2 Octave Pizz
John Clayton: Pizz and Slap Pizz in G
Jason: Who was Serge Koussevitzky-: Jason
Gary Karr: The Entertainer, Amazing Grace
Andres Martin: Standing position
Michael Klinghoffer: Standing clinic
Edgar Meyer and Christian McBride: Duo
Barry with 11 colleagues: Flight of the Rubble Bee
EPISODE TWO
Barry: Bb 2 Octave Scale, Latin/Cuban Style
Christian McBride: Finding your Sound
Christian and Esperanza Spaulding: Interview and duet
Jason: Bottesini, The Elvis of the Bass
Catalan Rotaru: Playing Bottesini’s Bass
Glenn Grossman: Multi-Screen Bottesini Variations
Edgar Meyer and Victor Wooten: Bass acrobatics-jam
EPISODE THREE
Jason: Who is Dragonetti?
Emille Kuo: Dragonetti Waltz 1
Chi-chi Nwanoku: Dragonetti’s Bass Waltz 3
Barry: Clinic, Sing What you Play, Play what you Sing
Singing Bassists with: Kristin Korb, Katie Thiroux,
Nicki Parrott and Esperanza Spaulding
Christine Hoock: The German bow arm
Jessica Valls: The French Bow hold
Electric Bass Stars: Nik West, Rhonda Smith
and Tal Wikenfeld
EPISODE FOUR
Barry: D Major 2 Octave in Funk style
Grooving with the bow Jason Heath Olivier Babaz
Barry: Feeling Beauty-Francois Rabbath: Pivot, Camps, Books
Rabbath and Hans Sturm Art of Bow and L Hand
Rabbath Concert Videos; Poucha Das Volkan, Ibirique-Dominik Cri, Reitba, Pagannini, Briez, Equation
END: Francois and Steve Bailey duo Ellington-Beginning to See the Light.
EPISODE FIVE
Jason: Jazz lesson with Danny Ziemann Barry: A Major 2 octave scale in Klezmer Style
Contemporary Bass Heroes
Frank Proto: Sonata 63 with Catalan Rotaru
Frank Proto: Carmen Suite Toreador Song with Tim Berens, guitar
Sam Suggs: Daft Punk Caprice
Renaud Garcia-Fons: Palermo Solo
Dominik Wagner: Kadenza by Teppo Hauta-aho
Christine Hoock: Bass Space
Andres Martin: Dream Suite-Suenos
Aaron Olquin: Martin Bass Concerto
Ida Nielson: Electric Bass Bassida Tutorial #1
Chinese Acrobat
EPISODE SIX
Barry: Play and Listen Clinic with Andres Martin’s Anna’s Promise excerpt
Barry: Play and Listen Exercise with Beethoven 9th Ode to Joy
John Patitucci: 6 String Electric Bass
Lynn Hannings: Bow maker and bow care
Barrie Kolstein and Manny Alvarez: Kolstein Resins
Jason: Leatherwood Bespoke resin review
Introducing Mitch Moehring: Guest luthier host
Tom Martin: Making a Bass narrated by Mitch Moehring
Mitch Moehring: Shop Tour
Andy Stetson: Cincinnati Bass Cellar
Loft Violin Shop: Doug Richeson, Joshua Tripp and Travis Davies
John Patitucci: The Soul of the Bass
DaXun Zhang: Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, multi-bass arrangement
EPISODE SEVEN
Indea Owens: Jazz bassist
with Stay Human John Babtiste
Barry: String Crossings Exercise
Jason: Who was Dittersdorf
Christine Hoock: Dittersdorf Concerto No. 2
Leon Bosch: Dittersdorf
Symphonia Concertante for Viola,
Bass, and Orchestra with Robert Smissen viola
Jason: 18th Century
Viennese Double Bass
Bozo Paradzik: Vanhal Concerto
Rinat Ibragimov: Vanhal Concerto
Naomi Shaham: Hoffmeister Concerto No. 1
Xavier Foley: Sperger Sonata in B Minor
Giuseppe Ettore: Sperger Sonata in B Minor
Yomoon Youn: Sperger Concerto No. 15
Christine Hoock: Sperger Competition
Christine Hoock: Sperger Romanza with
Hiroshi Ikematsu, Gunars Upatnieks,
Jeff Bradetich and Dan Styffe:
Michael Manring: Slap bass secrets
on electric bass
Michael Manring: Sardonic Grin
EPISODE EIGHT
Soundtrack from the Pink Panther by Song Choi
bass festival in Germany
Katie Thiroux, jazz blues clinic
Jason Heath, double stops made easy
Valentina Ciardelli, double stops for the insane
Bass lesson with the funny bunny
Peter McLachlan and colleagues at Bassworks, Australia
Cathy Elliot, UK beginning bass methods and ensembles
Edmond Cheng, Hong Kong Music Center, student competition winners
Asako Takayanagi, Nagoya, Japan \with young superstars and Gary Karr
Caroline Emery, UK York Mini Bass
Yoshi Horiguchi, USA with George Vance’s Scotland’s Burning
David Young,USA with George Vance’s Progressive Repertoire
and Barry’s Popular Bass Method
Virginia Dixon and Dan Swaim, Suzuki Bass method, 1988
Claus Freudenstein, Germany, Mini-Bass, 2003
Tracy Rowell, with teenager Jamie Park
Carolyn Emery, with teenager Nathan Perry
Maggie Carter, teenager,
Superstars in their 20’s
Nina DeCesare, George Vance prodigy,
Mikyung Sung, South Korea International soloist
Artist Feature:
Valentina Ciardelli playing Frank Zappa’s Mouth duet
Valentina Ciardelli,
ChaCha solo from West Side Story
Bassworks Maryland “All About That Bass”
closing of season one, Buckeye Bass Bashes
Jason Heath and Barry Green
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