I have been checking in regularly with Corner Violin Shop, a blog started by A. Cavallo Violins about daily life in a violin shop. This blog is an outstanding example of a small business utilizing the power of social media (like blogs, podcasts, Facebook, YouTube, and...
Bass blog contributor Nick Hart sent me a link to this great video of University of North Texas and Cleveland Institute of Music bass professor Jeff Bradetich performing the B.B. Wolf by New York Philharmonic bassist Jon Deak. We will be featuring some compositions by...
The double bass airline experiences survey is still open, so please take a moment and fill this out if you haven’t done so yet. We’ll be compiling this data and making it viewable to readers in the next few weeks.Part of the survey includes an area to...
The highly useful podcast text search tool EveryZing continues to both amaze and amuse me daily. It does a good enough job with the speech to text transcription to allow for really useful search results, but if you actually sit down and read the transcripts,...
Here is the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is a recording of the Mahler 1 bass solo. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below the player. Sometimes these players take 10-20 seconds...
