Clinically yours – my 2011 IMEA Bass Session

Careful what you wish for–you just might get it! I submitted a clinic proposal for the January 2011 Illinois Music Educators Association (IMEA) All-State Convention. They only accept a select handful of string-focused clinics, so I figured that mine didn’t...

My Golden Gate Bass Camp Virtual Master Class

I always love how Barry Green (a former Contrabass Conversations guest, bass teacher, and author of the Inner Game of Music and other books) imaginatively uses new technologies and ideas in his teaching and performing. Fromm jazzing up the Bach cello suites and...

Punch Brothers: You Are My Flower

All moved in now–what a place! I’ll be putting out some photos from the new Bass Blog HQ this week. But first… The following video was brought to my attention by double bassist Adam Davis. Truly amazing bass playing from Paul Kowert, who studied...

Moving

Oh boy–this is moving week for us here in Chicago. We’re going from Evanston, Illinois down to Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago for my wife to attend med school. I’ll do my best to keep blogging this coming week, but moving tends to throw a...