This photo can’t help but remind me about the story that I wrote earlier in 207 titled Bugs Bunny is My Mortal Enemy. I actually just started working on this post as a Story Time audio episode for Contrabass Conversations. I love putting these things together,...
Folks have probably noticed the massive facelift that the blog has undergone over the past week. That is actually only the tip or the iceberg as far as new functionality for www.doublebassblog.org. Moving to WordPress is something that I should have done a...
Double bassist and ClassicalMusicNews.tv blogger John Grillo wrote a post recently about the New Jersey Symphony and their dubious decision to sell their recently acquired ‘Golden Age’ instrument collection of 30 renowned stringed instruments to investment...
My long list of podcasts that I listen to daily generally provides me with some much needed levity in my day. Thanks to one of Leo Laporte’s podcasts (Net at Nite, if I remember correctly), I found passiveaggressivenotes.com, a hilariously funny site...
If At First You Don’t Succeed recently posted about a comment from bass blog contributor Benjy detailing his experiences studying the Rabbath technique. There is a lot similarity between Rabbath’s scale and arpeggio practice methodology and that of...
