Furtok Double Bass Quartet No. 5

Boguslaw Furtok (a great bassist who has been featured extensively on this blog) is also a talented composer as well as performer. This video (in three short parts) is a live performance of the fifth movement of his Bass Quartet N. 5, performed here by “The...

Regrets about using Blogger

If I could do it again, there’s no way that I would have started this blog on Blogger. While I really like and appreciate the powerful toolset that Google makes available to the user with Blogger, and although I generally appreciate their (since Beta Blogger in 2006)...

On freelancing and auditioning

John Floeter put out a great post on his bass studio blog recently about his thoughts and observations on freelancing and auditioning. This post is quite relevant to many of my writings about the freelance business (which you can find under my Articles link).Here are...

John Floeter’s Double Bass Studio – great resource

Double bassist John Floeter (Northern Illinois University bass instructor, Grant Park Symphony section member) has really been turning his double bass studio blog into an excellent resource. In addition to offering up technique downloads for students (via...