Bass shot of the day – Melbourne Symphony

3180 Double Bass Duo, originally uploaded by tengtan. Here’s an action shot of two double bass players from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This photo was taken at one of the four free concerts at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl (Melbourne) in early 2007.subscribe...

Frequency and Rhythm – Doug Johnson on harmonic rhythms

Double bassist Doug Johnson (www.myspace.com/douglasjohnson) has written a series of fascinating blog posts on the relationship between pitch cycles per second and how these translate to beats per minute.  This is heady and fascinating stuff!  Doug writes:...

Cleveland Eaton’s double bass site

Cleveland’s webmaster Janet recently e-mailed me about Cleveland Eaton’s new website, which you can find at www.clevelandeaton.com.  While on his site, I watched this video of Cleve playing with Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald in 1979. You know, this...

Car Explosion Story – video

Ever have a day that goes from bad to worse in a real hurry?  Well, I sure did a few years ago, and although I’ve now told this story in text and audio form, I just couldn’t resist putting it together as a video.  Actually, this is more like an...

Should I move the blogroll to its own page?

I’d love to get reader’s input–should I move the bass blog blogroll to its own page rather than having the links on the front page?  It does add quite a bit of length to an already crowded sidebar.  Do folks use these links frequently, or...