Double bassist and music educator Russell Kahle recently sent me a link to this outstanding video of Renaud Garcia-Fons performing "Aquajan" for solo double bass. This is a real music video, with cameras sweeping around Renaud while he plays double...
Here’s a brief demonstration of how to use chord substitutions on the ever-popular “I Got Rhythm” chord progression.
Here’s a really fun video of double bassist Karl Fenner performing New York Philharmonic assistant principal bassist Jon Deak’s always entertaining B.B. Wolf at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West in 2006. Anyone who hasn’t heard this...
Here is another clip from my demonstration/recital at the 2007 Silk Music Camp in Lisle, Illinois. I perform “Capriccio No. 2” by Louisiana Philharmonic principal bassist David Anderson. After the piece, I briefly demonstrate to the kids the techniques...
L’Orchestre de Contrebasses performing Bass, Bass, Bass, Bass, Bass & Bass from the album of the same title. The video is from a Turkish source apparently, but that will not impede enjoymnt of this video.