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Archive for November, 2007

Mr. T loves World of Warcraft

Yazan: Jason | 29 November 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: humor, videos

This is completely non-bass related but tons of fun.  This commercial featuring Mr. T promoting World of Warcraft is especially fun for folks familiar with either WoW or the great Mr. T himself.  It’s good to see that he doesn’t take himself too seriously, especially as I recall last year’s blog post about Treat Your [...]

Massive blog outage

Yazan: Jason | 29 November 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: blogging

Blogger, my oh-so-flaky web host, seems to have been down for a good long while tonight, so my apologies to folks trying to access the blog.  I am planning on moving the site to WordPress very soon (maybe in the next few days), which would allow for a lot more control and flexibility.  I seem [...]

MusTech.net weighs in on International Music Score Library Project closing

Yazan: Jason | 28 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: blogging, education, technology

I blogged previously about the sudden and unfortunate demise of the International Music Score Library Project and how this may be a harbinger of things to come as the Internet age progresses.  One of my favorite podcasts, Buzz Out Loud, also weighed in on this story, and MusTech.net just wrote a post about it as [...]

Matt Heller plays excerpts from Ma Vlast in alternate tuning

Yazan: Jason | 28 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass videos, blogging, student resources

Matt Heller filed this blog post under ‘extreme bass-geekdom’ on his blog hellafrisch, and he’s right, but I love it anyway. Check out Matt’s post for an example of a particularly clunky arpeggiated section from Smetana’s Ma Vlast. Matt plays it first in regular tuning and then with the A string tuned down a whole [...]

Deutsche Grammophon launches online music store today

Yazan: Jason | 28 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: music news, technology

It’s great to see classical music leaders like Deutsche Grammophon enter the modern age of digital distribution.  Alex Ross wrote a post yesterday highlighting some of the features of this new online store, and I received some correspondence from DG representative Bill Hunt as well.  Bill writes: DG will be the first classical record label [...]