Recent content by Tripletmom

Our daughter just rented a bass from Steve Swan this week (she was home for Thanksgiving) and loved his basses (I think we are going to be in trouble - what is it with basses and their obsession with buying basses?) She fell in love with a bass that Steve has already sold. Steve was so...

Bassface - great advice from someone who has been there. Thank you so much. I'm going to IM you if that's OK.

@Chris Fitzgerald...I would get her a Zoom H2 and let her experiment with how to use it. She's decided to get the Zoom (it's on sale today for $80) - I heard that the Yeti Blue is also good and saves you from overlaying the audio on the video since you can plug it into your Mac - but she...

@jazzcat_13 - thanks for the tip about clipping. I passed it along to her. I think that most of the colleges prefer videos, too...she can just overlay the audio on the video from her Iphone. She's such a perfectionist so I hope she doesn't record all day :-) Where did you end up going to college?

Bassface....love you name. Thanks for the advice. She recently got a used Mac so she now can sync the audio and the video. You wrote: Is she auditioning for Berklee College of Music or anything? They have a nice push to bring in Female musicians (especially female bass players) right now...

Whateat - Regarding using a studio - she lives in LA so tons of them there. Here's the issue - she used a studio to record for her summer program video and it turned out great - but she really didn't like being separate from her pianist and drummer (they were in separate rooms). She likes...

Last minute help needed....thanks in advance. My high school upright jazz bassist daughter (that's her in my profile picture) is recording her pre-screen college/conservatory audition videos tomorrow along with a pianist and a drummer. Last time she recorded, the sound wasn't the best so she...

If you lived in LA - would buy it today! (our daughter has her pre-screen audition taping tomorrow) :-(

Our high school daughter (upright jazz bassist) is recording her college pre-screens tomorrow - she really wants them to be good and is stressing. What mic/recording device should she get? She will be playing with a pianist and a drummer in a church (not sure how acoutics will be). There are...

I'm a parent of a 16 year old serious bassist (at least most days). She aspires to be a professional (I know - long, hard road). I want to support her - but we have come to a crossroads. Last summer, she asked me to find her a full-time school like Brevard (she loved it there!), where she...

Our 16 year old double bassist daughter went to Brevard last summer and LOVED it. It really put her on fire for bass and she now wants to go to a full-time pre-college program and study at a conservatory for college. Here's the dilemma. She got into Brevard again for this summer - and is also...

OldNewbie, I'll be honest with you and a traditional doc worries me, particularly surgeons. My own experience tells me that they like to do surgery to fix things. I had a ankle issue (similar thing as her shoulder). I was told by a surgeon to do surgery - did Pilates instead (this was 30+...

Hi OldNewbie - our daughter developed this problem at the end of Brevard Music Institute last summer. She was playing for 6+ hours a day and by the end of the summer it hurt and was inflamed. We took her to PT who was focusing on strengthening the area around it to prevent the humeral head...

Declectica - good to know she's not alone on the shoulder thing. She is doing Alexander Technique (not cheap!) which seems to be helping some. I'll have her check out Rabbath...thanks for taking the time to comment and help.

Oh boy - quite a conversation started here, huh? Yes - our daughter is very nervous about using another bass. It's an important audition for her and Peter Lloyd's reputation precedes him. She's auditioned a few times here in SC (for States, etc) and she has sent in video auditions to Brevard...