I recently found this excellent post on the blog If at first you don’t succeed…Rhythms are a good technique to use when you want to bring a passage up to speed. The other common technique is to play with a metronome, starting slowly, then gradually...
I just typed ‘double bass’ into Flickr (a great website I use all the time for storing and finding photos). Here’s what came up:Not surprising, I suppose–after all, we always get fish results with bass searches. Still, it’s a fairly funny...
Just a quick note to readers and listeners regarding upcoming guests for the next couple of weeks on Contrabass Conversations:This weekend I will be putting out the next segment of our interview with Indiana University double bass professor Lawrence Hurst. John Grillo...
Check out this excellent video of L’Orchestre de Contrebasses–it’s like an MTV music video for the double bass. Can you recognize the tunes?Related Posts:Boguslaw Furtok plays Bottesini Gran Duo ConcertanteTrio bass’in tears it upPaul McCartney...
I fell backwards into teaching, making it one of the core components of my professional life without even realizing it. If I had been more perceptive, in fact, I probably would have resisted, kicking and screaming every inch of the way.Why?Well, I come from a family...
