I definitely identify with Laurel and Hardy in this sketch, playing my bass in the snow with little attention from people passing by, goofing around while simultaneously miserable in the winter weather. Add in a long drive to this ‘gig’ and you’ve...
This is a new feature for the doublebassblog.org Virtual Master Class project. Double bassist Ian Hallas has stepped up to the plate and offered up this (and several other) video performances for this project. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by...
This blog represents the constant, gopher-like work of one overcaffeinated bassist’s multi-year attempt to create a resource bank for the double bass community (plus crazy gig stories and cat posts, of course!). Though I am constantly working to tweak the...
The following information was forwarded to me by Erik Dorset from the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin: I am happy to write here that we have found a solution to our double bass problem for the upcoming USA-Canada tour with the Akademie in April. Although Continental...
A note from DoubleBassBlog.org contributor Phillip Serna: In February 2008, the ‘Viols in Our Schools’ website was launched. ‘Viols in Our Schools’ exists as a pilot program of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. Phillip Serna donates time...
