Double bassist John Floeter recently started a blog. John is on the bass faculty for Northern Illinois University, and he plays bass for the Grant Park Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Lake Forest Symphony, and many other Chicagoland ensembles. John is also my stand...
The 2007 International Society of Bassists Convention will be taking place June 4-9 at Wanda L. Bass (fitting name) School of Music on the campus of Oklahoma City University. I imagine that many bass blog readers will be attending this event, and I’d love to...
I just got a whole bunch of new submissions for the Virtual Master Class Project. If you’re new to the blog and don’t know about this very cool project, you can read up on it here. I will be putting these tracks out over the next couple of weeks, so feel...
I recently found this excellent post on the blog If at first you don’t succeed…Rhythms are a good technique to use when you want to bring a passage up to speed. The other common technique is to play with a metronome, starting slowly, then gradually...
I just typed ‘double bass’ into Flickr (a great website I use all the time for storing and finding photos). Here’s what came up:Not surprising, I suppose–after all, we always get fish results with bass searches. Still, it’s a fairly funny...
