Good morning readers! Peter Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com. There’s gigabytes of information on auditioning out there. Here’s a page my book, “An Introduction to Double Bass Playing” – it’s just a short, clean checklist to get...
Here’s a short video about some of the cooler new features in GarageBand ’09, the software that I use to record and edit all of my Contrabass Conversations audio podcasts. This is a fantastic piece of software that integrates well with all the other iLife...
We’re continuing with these new ‘Bass Blog TV’ episodes this week, rounding up some of the more interesting stories from the bass community this past week. These are new sorts of video episodes, and I’m still getting comfortable with the...
My bass student Kevin Helfman just passed along a link to this very cool video of Count Basie playing a duet with Cleveland Eaton, Basie’s long time bassist. Listen to him wail in the upper register! [From YouTube – Count Basie – Booty’s Blues]...
Here’s a video from 1996 featuring Miloslav Gajdos performing at the Harold Washington Library as part of Chicago’s International Artists Exchange. Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist and Northestern Illinois University double bass professor Greg Sarchet (who...
