I got married one month ago today on the beautiful island of Kauai, and I realized that, apart from some wacky animated photos, I never put up any pictures of the wedding here on the blog. I’ve got a ton of them (as well as a few thousand other photos from...
Readers could easily have missed double bassist Phillip Serna’s great post yesterday on double bass private studio teaching amidst the glut of posts we’ve put out this week. In this post, Phillip details the steps he went through in establishing...
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...
Although orchestral players see this size discrepancy every day, it is always amazing to see how the double bass towers over its smaller string family brethren. It’s amazing how similar many of our techniques are given this humongous difference: ...
Phillip W. Serna Doctoral Recital from 2002Quintet, Op. 39 by Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)For Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, and BassTema (Moderato) – Variation I – Variation IIAndante energicoAllegro sostenuto, me con brioAdagio pesanteAllegro...
