Ranaan Meyer is the bassist for the dynamic trio Time for Three. I had Ranaan on the podcast back in the early days of the show, almost ten years ago.
Time for Three was performing with the Modesto Symphony here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Ranaan had a chance to sit down for an in-person “round two” for the podcast.
We dig into all kinds of things:
- why Ranaan doesn’t carry his own bass out… and why the old-schoolers give him grief about it
- starting to use the Laborie endpin
- changes that Ranaan has made to his technique over time
- staying in shape on the road
- how the group creates music while living in three separate cities
- Ranaan’s focus on education
- advice that he’d give my former parents and students about a life in music
Links to check out:
- Time for Three’s website
- Social
- Their self-titled album
- Ranaan’s first appearance on the podcast
- Ranaan on The Entrepreneurial Musician podcast
- our new and better CBC Twitter
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