Hi I'm Jason Heath, and here's what's happening
in the world of the bass. I've got a quote
from Berlin Philharmonic principal
basist Matthew McDonald.
Geoff Chalmers of Discover Double Bass and
Acoustic Image
are teaming up to give away a Series 4
Claris SL bass amp to one lucky number of
the Discover Double Bass audience. Be
sure to visit the link in the show notes.
There are only a few days left to claim your
chance at this awesome amp.
Paul Cannon's video What It's Like to
Rehearse with Ensemble Modern caught fire on
reddit this past week. Here's a clip.
Be sure to check out the complete video -
it's really fantastic. Congratulations to
John Schimeck of Oklahoma City
University who got some great coverage
in the local paper for performing at the
Children's Center Rehabilitation
Hospital along with other members of the
Oklahoma City Philharmonic. John
hosted the 2007 ISB Convention at his
school--which is a beautiful facility, by
the way--and it's great see him getting some
local press for what he's up to.
Congratulations also to Hans Sturm for
receiving a University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Certificate of
Recognition for contributions to
students.
You're doing a lot for the music world,
the bass world, and making a big impact, so
that's well deserved for sure.
Congratulations to Barry Green for
presenting the keynote session and doing
some clinics at the Oregon Music
Educators Convention. If you've never
seen Barry present, you're missing out,
and the next stop for Barry is Rowan
University--that's Douglas Mapp, president of
the ISB, that's his school--and he'll be
doing a bass master class and an Inner
Game of Music workshop, and then he's
headed off to Hawaii for some time with
the US Marine Band and then the Hawaii
Music Educators Conference. Great to
catch up with you in Prague, Barry, and
it's great to see that you're not slowing down at all.
These and all other upcoming events can be
found at contrabassconversations.com/calendar
and if you have an
event that you'd like included just send
me an email at
feedback@contrabassconversations.com.
I wrote a post last week about teaching bass to beginners
and I'm starting to do blog posts with
accompanying videos on a particular topic.
This is what I did for that, and it's proving to
be quite popular so far - seems to
resonate with a lot of people, so check
out this post and if you have any ideas
for topics you'd like me to explore send
me a message let me know and let us know
your thoughts. Scott Lang runs a website
for music educators called Be Part of the
Music which is filled with materials to
help with recruiting and retaining
students. It's geared toward classroom
teachers, but there's a lot to learn for
private teachers as well. Scott's a
positive force in the music world and
he's a hilarious writer to boot
so check out his site and the new Be Part
of the Music site, and subscribe to his
email newsletter if you haven't--it's a
great weekly dose of thoughtfulness and
laughter. I love it every time I get it.
And speaking of giveaways, we've got our
latest get away with D'Addario strings
underway. If you visit
contrabassconversations.com/strings
you get the chance to win a set of
Orchestral, Hybrid, or Pizzicato strings, and
i've been using D'Addario strings for
years. I used Helicore strings on
several bases. I used their Orchestral
strings and I used their Hybrid strings,
which I really liked because they had some growl
to them and they still felt good under
the bow. They're reasonably priced,
they're made in the United States at the
D'Addario factory in New York, and thank you
guys for sponsoring the podcast.
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Thank you to everyone who wrote in this
week. I appreciate it so much. The emails,
the Facebook messages, the likes and
shares are so incredible, and I
appreciate so much you taking the time
to write in and say hi. I've also been
overwhelmed by the response at how
popular the Contrabass Conversations
Community Facebook group has become--I
should've started this up years ago--can't
believe I didn't do that--but we're
talking instruments, we're talking electric bass,
we're talking the upcoming ISB
Convention, we're sharing photos of our
basses... so much. I'm asking for questions
that I should ask upcoming guests. I
would love to have you be a part of this
conversation. You can join up
by visiting
contrabassconversations.com/community or
just search for us on Facebook.
Last week on the podcast we
featured Eric Steffens, who is the
principal base of the South Westphalian
Philharmonic and is my very first
serious bass student back in, I think 2001
he started studying with me.
It's so much fun following along with
Eric. Check out this episode.
It's a great listen to an American's
journey to becoming a principal bassist of
a European orchestra. We also featured
Kevin Brown, who is the principal bassist of the
Detroit Symphony. We dug deep into all
kinds of topics. Kevin studied with Peter
Lloyd, he studied with Paul Ellison, he
studied with David Allen Moore. We talked
auditioning. We talk what it's like
playing incidental solos and the
orchestra. So many good takeaway from
this episode, so be sure to check out both
of those if you haven't yet.
Thank you so much for following along.
You can check out all the links to
everything talk about at
contrabassconversations.com/news and
we'll close out today with a clip from
the 90's Contrabass Orchestra from
South Korea. Enjoy, and we'll see you soon
for more life on the low end of the spectrum.
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