The 2007 International Society of Bassists Convention will be taking place June 4-9 at Wanda L. Bass (fitting name) School of Music on the campus of Oklahoma City University. I imagine that many bass blog readers will be attending this event, and I’d love to...
I just got a whole bunch of new submissions for the Virtual Master Class Project. If you’re new to the blog and don’t know about this very cool project, you can read up on it here. I will be putting these tracks out over the next couple of weeks, so feel...
I recently found this excellent post on the blog If at first you don’t succeed…Rhythms are a good technique to use when you want to bring a passage up to speed. The other common technique is to play with a metronome, starting slowly, then gradually...
I just typed ‘double bass’ into Flickr (a great website I use all the time for storing and finding photos). Here’s what came up:Not surprising, I suppose–after all, we always get fish results with bass searches. Still, it’s a fairly funny...
Just a quick note to readers and listeners regarding upcoming guests for the next couple of weeks on Contrabass Conversations:This weekend I will be putting out the next segment of our interview with Indiana University double bass professor Lawrence Hurst. John Grillo...
