This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode covers techniques used in developing smooth bow changes. You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as...
This weekend we will wrap up our interview with Time for Three bassist Ranaan Meyer. John Grillo (a frequent guest and collaborator on the podcast) and I co-interviewed Ranaan, who is the bassist for the band Time for Three and has had a very interesting and...
This past weekend we released a Contrabass Conversations episode featuring double bassist John Grillo that the major double bass excerpts requested on auditions. I strongly feel (and I know that John agrees) that this project will have a real and lasting impact on the...
We’ve gotten some really fantastic comments on last week’s post about discouraging professional performance ambitions in music education students–this post obviously struck a chord with many readers. You can check out all of the comments on...
This month’s issue of Bass Musician magazine just launched, and as usual you can check out our Contrabass Conversations offering in this publication. We featured Chicago area jazz bassist Eric Hochberg in this issue of the magazine, merging the two halves of...
