This excellent comment came in a couple of days ago on our post (anonymous commenter) from September about balancing music performance and music education. Since things move quickly here (lots of new posts and comments every day), I like to highlight these types...
Matt Heller has put out a bunch of really excellent posts on his hellafrisch blog lately. For those new to the bass blog here, Matt is a bassist in the Calgary Philharmonic. He was previously a member of the New World Symphony (where he was featured in a New York...
Double bassist and blogger Joe Lewis wrote a post yesterday that raised some very good questions. He writes: I’ve often thought much about efficiency when practicing music. I used to park myself in a practice room from dawn until midnight back at NEC and even before...
International Society of Bassists President and Ball State University Bass Professor Hans Sturm and I got together recently and filmed a chat about the Rabbath left hand position technique. This final segment of our chat covers more general mental approaches to...
Ian Hallas, principal bassist for the Midwest Young Artists Symphony Orchestra (and my student for the past six years) is seen here performing the second movement of the Bottesini Concerto in B minor with his high school orchestra in Northbrook, Illinois. This was...
