Animusic – Pipe Dream

Folks out there may already be familiar with Animusic videos–they’ve been around for many years. To me, however, they are a great example of how creative people can be when envisioning music, and they are excellent videos to show young students and get...

Arizona Bass Players Festival March 5-8, 2009

From Arizona State University bass professor Patrick Neher: The Arizona Bass Players Festival and Workshop and competition will occur March 5-8, 2009 at Arizona State University. The competition is open, in two categories, to double bass and electric bass(es) now, for...

Thoughts on Composer Pronunciations

How do you pronounce Bach? Debussy? Schoenberg or Lutoslawski? Unless you met the composer, it is probably slightly different than I or someone else says it. We Americans tend to be very pretentious about our pronunciations. I’m all for accuracy and being...

Student & Teacher Resource

Hi everyone! Pete Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com. I wanted to let you all know that MostlyBass.com has been updated to include much more information for students and educators – both music teachers and classroom educators. I’ve been a music teacher and...

International Society of Bassists Online Store now open

The International Society of Bassists recently launched an online store. This welcome development for the world’s only international bass organization (besides this blog, of course!) features printed music, recordings, T-shirts, DVDs, posters, old issues of the...