As the profile of www.doublebassblog.org continues to rise, I have noticed a great deal of extremely amusing spam sites linking to here and scraping content. Now, for folks unfamiliar with content scraping, the term refers to someone (or some nefarious scraping robot...
We’ve got a real treat for folks today. Phillip Serna had to acquire special permission from the publisher of the Tubin Concerto for Double Bass in order for us to release it, and it is likely that many readers out there haven’t heard this piece before. I...
This is completely non-bass related but tons of fun. This commercial featuring Mr. T promoting World of Warcraft is especially fun for folks familiar with either WoW or the great Mr. T himself. It’s good to see that he doesn’t take himself too...
I blogged previously about the sudden and unfortunate demise of the International Music Score Library Project and how this may be a harbinger of things to come as the Internet age progresses. One of my favorite podcasts, Buzz Out Loud, also weighed in on this...
Matt Heller filed this blog post under ‘extreme bass-geekdom’ on his blog hellafrisch, and he’s right, but I love it anyway. Check out Matt’s post for an example of a particularly clunky arpeggiated section from Smetana’s Ma Vlast. Matt...
