After a long day of surfing, hacking, and tweaking, I have put some really cool new features into my blog that I think people will enjoy. The first new feature is above this post in the address bar of your browser. I have installed a Bass Page favicon (the bass clef...
Michael Hovnanian has been writing some posts on his CSO Bass Blog that would be very helpful to classical double bassists. He has been providing some fingering solutions for pieces that the Chicago Symphony has been performing recently.Check out his Mahler 7 post or...
Greg Sarchet (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, Bass Club Chicago) pointed this list out to me recently. It is a list of all the different names and variants of the Inbindi. The Inbindi is either an acoustic or electric one string bass...
Check out this cool speed talking video. In under 2 minutes, he names the books of the Bible (Old and New Testaments) the Book of Mormon, the 50 US States, the alphabet backwards, the U. S. Presidents and the Academy Award winners for Best Picture.Here is a list of...
During the summers of 2001 and 2002 I played double bass for the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina. Originally this organization was part of the Festival of Two Worlds that Gian Carlo Menotti started in conjunction with Spoleto, Italy, and the same...
