This Week’s Most Interesting Flickr Photos

The photo sharing service Flickr has a feature that will display the most interesting photos from the past week. This is a really cool feature and hours of fun. I use Flickr all the time (view my photos here), and I have found all sorts of unusual and beautiful photos...

Double Bass on Wikipedia

The Wikipedia entry for double bass is worth checking out for people who haven’t done so already. There is a decent amount of information in this entry, but it would be a good idea for the bass community refine and add to this information.There is currently a...

Bassfest Information Archive

I have made many posts about the Whitewater Winter Bassfest in the past. If you want to find out more information about past clinicians, activities, schedules, and more just click here. Many prominent musicians from major orchestras have served on the faculty over the...

Whitewater Winter Bassfest 2007

I have quit my teaching job at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, but the Bassfest that I started five years ago still lives on. Scott Kreger, the new double bass instructor at UWW, will be continuing the festival, and he is having me back this year as a...

Simandl-Plus® – Rabbath versus Simandl follow-up discussion

This is a post continuing the discussion of various double bass fingering methods. You can read the complete conversation here. Feel free to add your comments to any of these posts. If you have more extended thoughts or additional methods that you would like me to...