Bass players are taking over the internet, and long may it continue!

On this page:

• Classical Double Bass
• Jazz/Electric Bass/Bass Guitar
• Classical Music
• Other Life-Enhancing Links

Classical Double Bass:

• The Inner Game of Music: page covers how to achieve the mindset of success.  A page by Barry Green, Double Bass Soloist, Teacher and Clinician.
• Yuji Taki's excellent page covers solo and ensemble repertoire, recordings, books, strings and rosin, virtuosi and more.
• Kenji Yokota's page reviews bass recordings, both solo and chamber.
• David Spondike looks at the Double Bass (inlcuding chosing an instrument), composition, education, politics, and amateur radio.
• Jan Angermuller lets you download piano accompaniments for a range of classical double bass pieces (in midi-format).
• Giovanni Bottesini: A Life.
• Jerry Fuller's Double Bass and Violone Page looks at early music and will include a history of the double bass.
• Double Bass Square
• The Rumblings Home Page.
• The International Society of Bassists
• Jan's page features plenty of Midi files.
• Universities:
  • University of North Texas Double Bass Program
• Performers:
  • Nigrin
  • Mark Bernat discusses his recording of Bach's six suites.
  • Greg Sarchet and the Bass Club of Chicago
  • Hans Sturm
  • OuterBass, an Indianapolis-based bass quintet that performs classical,jazz, and ethnic-inspired music, much of it written and arranged by its members.
  • 'A Man, A Woman And A Double Bass'
  • The Bottesini Duo have a site, which will eventually include a detailed biography of Bottesini, a general discussion of his life and work, photos and drawings of him and a complete catalogue of his works and letters.
  • Thomas Gale
  • Libero Lanzilotta includes a link to the Capbreton Festival
• American School of Double Bass, 415 East Weber Road, Columbus, Ohio 43202-1468 USA
  Tel: 1-614-262-3979 Fax: 1-614-262-3970 E-mail: asodb@aol.com
• Other links on the Classic Web Contrabass Page
• Bass on the Net, the center for bass discussion on the WWW.
• The 2XBASSLIST is an email discussion list covering Double Bass and Electric Bass topics.
  To subscribe, e-mail listproc@u.washington.edu. The message should read: subscribe 2XBASSLIST (Your name (not email address) here). If you would like to receive a single daily message containing all the emails together, send the message: SET 2xbasslist MAIL DIGEST. To unsubscribe send the message: unsubscribe 2xbasslist.
  The archives of the 2xBasslist are available on the Web, including a forms-based search facility and a complete subject index.

Jazz Bass/Electric Bass/Bass Guitar

• Home Bass, an excellent resource for the electric bass player.
• Walking bass lines and how to create them.
• Dave Spondike covers Jazz too.
• The internet's bass links
• The Harmony Central Bass Resources, including links and FAQs.
• James Young's looks at topics such as posture when playing the Double Bass and Jazz styles.
• Jonas Lohse's Page for the Amplified Double Bass (In German)
• Bass Frontiers Online, the new web site for Bass Frontiers Magazine. Mainly electric bass oriented, with excellent links.
• The Bass Centre, an internet shop.
• Performers:
  • Recordings by l'Orchestre de Contrebasses can be heard on the MusiCreation Network.
  • Paul Bresciani of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Adam Christensen
  • Marco Accattatis: Jazz performer and composer.
  • Jon Burr's Page.
  • Bass Double Bass, Patricia Deslaurier's Jazz-oriented page.
• Interesting newsgroups include alt.guitar.bass and rec.music.makers.bass
• The 2XBASSLIST (see above) is an email discussion list covering Double Bass and Electric Bass topics.
• The Bottom Line is an email discussion list for the Electric Bass. To subscribe, send a message to bass-request@magpie.com with SUBSCRIBE in the body.
• EBASS also covers electric bass, but apparently it is friendlier than The Bottom Line. To subscribe send e-mail to listproc@u.washington.edu. In the message write: subscribe EBASS your name.

Classical Music

• The Shrine to Music Museum & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments
• The WWW Virtual Library: Classical Music
• Mike Hopkins' Interesting Web Sites, for many instruments.
• The Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers holds a large catalogue of new music by our member composers, including some for double bass.
• Paul Critser's Directory of Online Musicians and links.
• RCA Victor Beginner's Guide to Classical Music.
• Alamo Violins have a site covering orchestras, musicians, schools, instruments, non-classical music store sites and more.
• Ron's Effort Satisfaction Quotient
• Soundz, a small group of web-friendly music lovers who are building a reviewed music guide to all of the worthy music resources on the web.
• Interesting newsgroups include rec.music.makers.bowed-strings, rec.music.classical and rec.music.classical.performing

Other Life-Enhancing Links

• Searching the Web.
• Fax for Free!
• Anagrams
• The Paradox of Progress, a site based on an excellent book that puts the case for independent thought and human intelligence in modern life. If you have ever banged your head against 'the rules', you'll know what he means! Dr. Willis also takes a critical look at the effects of the health service reforms in this thought-provoking book.
• Sparks Computer Solutions, a company run by my friends, who have helped me with tips for this page.
• Daily Information, a great Oxford institution.
• How to find out email addresses.
• Telephone directories worldwide
• Downloadable Music Site
  MPEG Music Archive, free mpeg audio players, online radio, vinyl database, music links, web rings and online T-Shirt gallery.
  

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