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My band, Jungle of Cities
Check out the band I play bass for on facebook.
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Unbelievable News…
Philadelphia Orchestra board OKs Chapter 11 filing
Kids’ musical instruments booming with bacteria
From the Chicago Tribune.
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Beautiful Italian Bass for only 1/4 million
http://tarisio.com/wp/2011/03/the-delmas-double-bass-by-giovanni-paolo-maggini-4-2/
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Bass Amps
Looking for a great amp? I recently tried out the MarkBass brand of amps and this will be the next kind of amp I buy. I still really like SWR as well.
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NYC Luthier
Looking for a luthier in the NYC area? Check out Bill Merchant. He build my custom extension in 2004 and does exceptional work.
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New Books from Jon Gorrie
“A fate worse than death?” contains 8 articles that I wrote whilst preparing “Performing in The Zone”. Some of the articles became source material for “Performing in The Zone”, a couple were downloadable as ebooks, and a couple aren’t available … Continue reading
More from the Arco Jazz Bass Project
We just published a new song in the arco jazz bass project: Suitably by the beginning fall the known standard “Autumn Leaves” appears this month in the arco jazz bass project. As usual, as a mp3 file with solo bass … Continue reading
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Tips on Simplifying Difficult Passages
How To Practice.com has listed some tips on breaking down a difficult phrase or passage. Great for students as well as being a reminder to us more seasoned players!
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Practice Tips for Young Musicians
Check out some tips at my other blog, The Evolving Educator.
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More Music from ProBass MusikVerlag
The arco jazz bass project publishes this month a “hot” jazz standard: “Yesterdays” by Jerome Kern is ready from now on to download in mp3 format as a playback as well as an example with arco played solo bass. Besides, … Continue reading
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New Music
Looking for an original composition / commission? Check out Michael D. Blostein.
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Suzuki Soup
Suzuki Soup is a composition I wrote featuring the melodies of Suzuki Book 1. It is a medley in a fiddling type style. I thought that since most string students study these tunes it would be fun to play them … Continue reading
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The arco jazz bass project.
To promote improvising with the bow, one jazz standard is offered on the homepage once monthly. The download is for free. For each title there will be one mp3-file with solo bass which plays themes and improvisation as an example, and … Continue reading
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DoubleBassBlog.org
Has lots of new posts and sporting a new, slicker theme…
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New Music
An announcement from PRObass Music (www.probass.de): PRObass Music (PRObass Musikverlag) recently published some interesting music for doublebass/doublebasses: – Th. A. Findeisen: “Quartettsuite für 4 Celli oder 4 Kontrabässe” (quartett suite for 4 celli or 4 double basses) This, finally, again … Continue reading
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Very Cool String Group / Show
Check out Bowfire. They are amazing and all my students, regardless of age, have been absolutely enthralled with them!
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