Top Ten U.S. Double Bass Music Schools 2015

— 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...
Learning Double Bass Excerpts – online videos that can help

Learning Double Bass Excerpts – online videos that can help

The amount of helpful online content for bassists today is truly staggering.  As an “old” guy, it’s hard to conceive of how many more resources young bassists have these days at their disposal. There’s so much, in fact, that knowing where to...
David Allen Moore bowing exercises video

David Allen Moore bowing exercises video

LA Philharmonic bassist David Allen Moore (we recently reposted his Contrabass Conversations interview–check it out!) has a great video on Musaic, the video site created and curated by the New World Symphony (a fantastic resource, by the way).  It’s really...
Awesome Apps for Teaching Music

Awesome Apps for Teaching Music

I’m doing a presentation this Saturday for the Illinois American String Teachers Association on apps that I use for teaching.  Honestly, tech is so tightly integrated into what I do with students that it’s hard to even think of specifically what I use on a regular...

Golden Gate Bass Camp July 7-11, 2014

Golden Gate Bass Camp San Francisco is proud to announce the faculty for the 2014 summer session: Soloist and teacher DaXun Zhang University of Michigan professor Diana Gannett San Francisco Symphony principal bass Scott Pingel San Francisco Symphony assistant...