The Great Double Bass Race (1978)

What a cool find!  A BBC documentary titled The Great Double Bass Race covers the very first really big classical double bass event in Europe, which took place in 1978 and features a lot of familiar faces.  It’s a little over an hour in length and features both...

Double Bass Technique: My Favorite Methods

I’ve used pretty much every bass method as a performer and teacher. Simandl, Rabbath, Billé, Petracchi, Sevcik, Flesch, Levinson, and Vance (to name a few) have all spent time on my music stand, and my thinking about bass technique and the most efficient means...
François Rabbath demonstration and performance

François Rabbath demonstration and performance

The wonderful musician and visionary bassist François Rabbath is featured in this hour-long video from McNally Smith College of Music performing and speaking about his life.  Watching this brings back memories of my interview with Rabbath in the early days of...
The Big List of Bass Interviews

The Big List of Bass Interviews

We’ve put out a lot of interviews in our 164+ episodes of Contrabass Conversations!  At a certain point, it becomes hard to locate specific interviews.  Out upcoming app will help, but I thought it would be helpful to review and categorize what we’ve done...