Saturday, March 11th, 2006
This is in continuation of a discussion over at Hella Frisch on one of my favorite subjects: practice breaks.
One of the primary reasons that Bill Gates/Al Gore/God invented practice breaks is to avoid repetitive stress injuries (RSI). At least computer users these days have software such as AntiRSI for Mac ...
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
Some friends of mine and I were talking about working up my favorite piece of chamber music, ever: Spinoff, by Charles Wuorinen.
This piece is a beast. Listen to this excerpt from Wuorinen's site to get a flavor of what we're dealing with here. It's head-banging rock and roll for classical ...
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Sunday, January 8th, 2006
Old bass joke to make you groan:
musicmutt: A fun little story
A friend of a friend of a friend of mine told me this little tale of one of our local symphony orchestras doing a rendition of Beethoven's 9th symphony. There is a passage in this piece where the bass section ...
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
If you are a classical double bassist, then you might be interested in checking out the new Google Groups forum, designed exclusively for discussion of issues pertaining to the classical bassist.
I had seen plenty of online bass forums, but most of them were a mixed bag of styles and instruments ...
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Monday, November 7th, 2005
Failing is indeed a very difficult piece for double bass. This is a nice little low-fi version of a performance posted over at violinist.com that is great for giving you an idea of what the piece is about. Very funny! I had never actually heard this piece, though I've heard ...
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