Rochester Philharmonic bassist Gaelen McCormick (who we will be featuring on Contrabass Conversations this Thursday) has been recording lesson/performance videos of the Simandl 30 Etudes. We talk about this cool project in our conversation, and I thought...
I’ve used pretty much every bass method as a performer and teacher. Simandl, Rabbath, Billé, Petracchi, Sevcik, Flesch, Levinson, and Vance (to name a few) have all spent time on my music stand, and my thinking about bass technique and the most efficient means...
— Visit the Double Bassist’s Guide to Colleges – U.S. Edition — Though it’s always interesting to get feedback from readers and conduct surveys like this, I feel obligated to point out that studying music is not a...
