Double bassist Peter Lloyd has been hired to teach at Northwestern University starting Fall 2007. He will be replacing double bass instructor DaXun Zhang, who has accepted a faculty position at the University of Texas-Austin. For some background on this institution,...
Matt Heller put out a thoughtful post last week on his blog hellafrisch about Paul Ellison’s teaching style. You can visit Matt’s post here, but I’ll put out a few teaser quotes.Matt paraphrases Ellison:First there are the things that you know you...
John Floeter put out a great post on his bass studio blog recently about his thoughts and observations on freelancing and auditioning. This post is quite relevant to many of my writings about the freelance business (which you can find under my Articles link).Here are...
Double bassist John Floeter (Northern Illinois University bass instructor, Grant Park Symphony section member) has really been turning his double bass studio blog into an excellent resource. In addition to offering up technique downloads for students (via...
I blogged about this site last summer, but I was again just spending some time on DoubleBassGuide.com, a great resource for players of the instrument out of Germany. The site is operated by Jonas Lohse, who also maintains a double bass blog. It has articles, a gear...
