San Francisco Symphony Principal Principal Double Bass and University of Michigan faculty member Scott Pingel will be our guest for next week’s Contrabass Conversations episode. In addition to holding down the principal bass chair for the San Francisco...
Former Contrabass Conversations guest Kristin Korb recently posted this recent video from Dr. Randy Kertz discussing hand pain for bassists–check it out by clicking through below. It covers carpal tunnel syndrome and other common issues for double bassists....
What a cool find! A BBC documentary titled The Great Double Bass Race covers the very first really big classical double bass event in Europe, which took place in 1978 and features a lot of familiar faces. It’s a little over an hour in length and features both...
Hat tip to Reddit user cosmicplacebo for this link to University of Texas at Austin Double Bass Professor doing a master class as part of the Mayerson Masters Artists Series. DaXun was on Contrabass Conversations back in 2008, and we had a great chat and got to...
I’ve used pretty much every bass method as a performer and teacher. Simandl, Rabbath, Billé, Petracchi, Sevcik, Flesch, Levinson, and Vance (to name a few) have all spent time on my music stand, and my thinking about bass technique and the most efficient means...
