This is a new feature for the doublebassblog.org Virtual Master Class project. Double bassist Ian Hallas has stepped up to the plate and offered up this (and several other) video performances for this project. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by...
This blog represents the constant, gopher-like work of one overcaffeinated bassist’s multi-year attempt to create a resource bank for the double bass community (plus crazy gig stories and cat posts, of course!). Though I am constantly working to tweak the...
I really, truly enjoy writing. Although I had pretty much neglected any sort of creative writing activity upon entering music school, the last few years of blogging began to gradually rekindle my interest in the written word, and I now find myself with a large...
Click the player above to hear the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is a recording of the first movement of Symphony No. 39 by Mozart. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below. We welcome your...
The following information was forwarded to me by Erik Dorset from the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin: I am happy to write here that we have found a solution to our double bass problem for the upcoming USA-Canada tour with the Akademie in April. Although Continental...