I recently stumbled upon this interview that double bassist Peter Tambroni did with Martin Simpson. Martin has a website called Interviews with Overseas Bass Folk. It’s a great resource, and I just added it to my blogroll under “non-blog bass...
While on tour in Russia (see my previous story about my Russian tour) I had the opportunity to ride the subway in both St. Petersburg and Moscow. The following video of the Moscow subway shows a station that is certainly more crowded than any I ever entered, but I do...
Here are a couple of excellent classical music podcasts that I have been listening to recently. The NACOcast with Christopher Millard is currently my favorite classical podcast. It features great interviews with classical music icons. Double bass players should check...
Michael Hovnanian recently wrote a post on his CSO Bass Blog about Max Dimoff’s warm-up packet. He writes about one of the string crossing exercises (a Simandl Gradus ad Parnessum-style exercise) in particular from these warm-ups and shows it’s application...
This is an ever-growing archive of PDF and MP3 resources for double bassists. Many of them are contributions from readers over the years. If you’ve got something you’d like shared with the general bass public, this site is an easy way to do it. Just...
