Don’t Stop Believin’ (a brief history of pop music)

This is a really worthwhile video to check out. It isn’t on YouTube or Google Video, so I can’t embed it here, but follow the link. This guy plays a chord sequence from “Don’t Stop Believin'” by the band Journey and sings about 20...

Symphony on the Swamp

During the summers of 2001 and 2002 I played double bass for the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina. Originally this organization was part of the Festival of Two Worlds that Gian Carlo Menotti started in conjunction with Spoleto, Italy, and the same...

Music Education 2.0

Wired News put out a recent story on a musical instruction web app recently demoed at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It is called In the Chair, and it sounds like a real step forward for music education. Check out the demo video:This is the sort of thing that I...

Music may improve your health

There is a recent post on oboeinsight about now music may help to improve the health of the elderly. Check it out here.powered by performancing firefox

My Blogroll

I have been working on including as many relevant double bass, electric bass, music, and education blogs as I can on my blogroll in the sidebar on this blog. If anybody has any suggestions for more blogs to list, please leave a comment or e-mail me with ideas....