Happy New Year with Guy Tuneh

Last year, Guy Tuneh provided the double bass community a video of his excellent Rococo Variations performance to celebrate the new year. This year we’re featuring this wonderful artist performing Kol Nidrei by Max Bruch. Enjoy!

Suzuki Bass Learning Opportunities with Virginia Dixon

Suzuki bass pioneer Virginia Dixon (I interviewed her last year for Contrabass Conversations–check it out here) is offering several opportunities during 2009 for Suzuki bass teacher training. This is an excellent opportunity to get training in a field that is...

New Peabody Faculty-Artist in Residence Harold Robinson

(crossposted from PBDB) Here is the blurb from the official Peabody website: Peabody is pleased to announce the appointment of Harold Hall Robinson, principal bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra and instructor at the Curtis Institute, as Peabody Artist-Faculty in...

Lesson Assignment Sheet

There are many tools to help your private lesson students remember their assignments and complete their tasks. Shar Music offers a very useful Musician’s Practice Planner. I use it with some students as well as myself. But sometimes something simpler is needed....

Posture & Body Awareness

Hi everyone, Pete Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com with a few words on posture and body awareness. Our posture affects us both physically and mentally. We tend to slouch when feeling down or depressed and we stand straighter when proud or in a good mood. We can also...