Rabbath versus Simandl – a comparative study for double bass

If you’re thinking about purchasing any of the following method books, click through the links below and a portion of your purchase will go to support doublebassblog.org and our podcast! There are two predominant double bass pedagogical methods in the United...

Musical Examples on Michael Hovnanian’s CSO Bass Blog

Michael Hovnanian has been writing some posts on his CSO Bass Blog that would be very helpful to classical double bassists. He has been providing some fingering solutions for pieces that the Chicago Symphony has been performing recently.Check out his Mahler 7 post or...

The Indindi Compendium from Wheel of Music

Greg Sarchet (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, Bass Club Chicago) pointed this list out to me recently. It is a list of all the different names and variants of the Inbindi. The Inbindi is either an acoustic or electric one string bass...

The Bass Gang

In keeping with my recent post about pop music, my former student Tyler Bakken directed me to this great recording of Van Halen’s “Jump” by The Bass Gang. Click this link to listen to the arrangement! Also click the photo to check out their website...

New Blogroll Links

Lynn from Lynnspace.com pointed me to some excellent music blogs recently. I will be checking them out and adding them to my blogroll here. Check out her links page for some great music (and non-music) blogs.