Lessons (in Adobe PDF format)

• Beginning Double Bass Lessons
  primarily designed for the Music Education Major, this article features the basics concerning bass care and feeding, stance, bow holds, and several introductory exercises.
• Improv in the Practice Room
  using a troublesome passage from the first movement of the Koussevitsky Bass Concerto as an example, classical bassists are encouraged to experiment with a variety of improvisation techniques to make practice time more efficient, engaging, and enjoyable. No prior knowledge of improvisation is required.
• Improv in the Classroom
  with the new standards of education in place, music teachers are now required to teach improvisation as a part of their curriculum. This article offers an outline to stimulate ideas for teaching improvisation through two ends; free-play or 'dive right in' and improvisation developed out of already know works or 'start from here'.
• Reinventing Jazz Basics
  new ideas for helping jazz bassists develop interesting and creative bass
• Jazz Bass Survey
  a reference article giving short biographical sketches, selected discographies, and bibliographies and twenty-one of the most influential bassists in the history of jazz.
• The Jazz Bass Scaling Project
  serves as an introduction to a unique method for constructing and analyzing a performance profile of jazz bassists. Uses performances of jazz greats Richard Davis and Ron Carter as examples.

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