University of Iowa bass profesor Volkan Orhan has recently recorded an album of bass ensembles. The unusal thing is that he played all of the tracks himself, and overdubbed them to make an ensemble of Volkans.The first seven tracks are double bass duets written by...
Boston Symphony principal bass Ed Barker will be presenting a masterclass on Wednesday, March 8th from 9-11 a.m. at Roosevelt University (Michigan and Congress) in Ganz Hall on the 7th floor. Only Chicago College of Performing Arts students will be performing, but all...
I encourage all of my pre-college double bass students to get involved with either the Midwest Young Artists program or the Chicago Youth Symphony. Both of these Chicagoland youth orchestra programs are really top-notch. I have work with both of them if various...
I have recently added some new features to my bass page. You can now download my scale fingerings for all one octave scales and two octave scales here. Also, you can download MP3 practice tracks (only scales up now–more to come) from this page. Finally, I have...
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