I’ve got this irrational urge to move to Hot Springs, South Dakota. This town is a beautiful community of just under 5000 residents located on the Fall River in the southwestern corner of South Dakota. I’m originally from South Dakota, though my hometown...
Click below to download the Ultimate Double Bass String Guide! Download the String Guide What double bass player doesn’t love to roll their sleeves up and geek out on bass strings? In fact, it can almost become a sickness, and many players get to a point where...
Double bassist and blogger Joe Lewis recently wrote a book on web technologies, which is published from Apress/FriendsOfED: Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript http://tinyurl.com/5gluv3 Sandia National Labs (where Joe works as lead web...
Here’s a great video (with high production values to boot!) of University of North Texas and Cleveland Institute double bass professor Jeff Bradetich performing the Allemande from the first Bach Cello Suite. Very cool. I hope that Jeff knows his stuff’s...
The following excerpts are from an upcoming book by double bassist and educator Peter Tambroni. Peter has written an excellent double bass method book titled An Introduction to String Playing, and he has been a guest on Contrabass Conversations as well. In addition to...
