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Archive for November, 2010

Alice Herz-Sommer and the piano

Yazan: Jason | 11 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: videos

Here’s a trailer for a documentary about the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor. What is amazing to me about this is her undiminished love for music and playing the piano (you’ll learn more about her musical background in the trailer). As I like to tell my students, what other activity that you are engaged in now [...]

Juan Pablo Navarro

Yazan: Jason | 10 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass videos

Double bassist Juan Pablo Navarro has recently released a set of his own tango compositions for double bass and piano. I’ll be doing a Contrabass Conversations episode featuring his music, but in the meantime, please enjoy this YouTube video of Juan performing with Nicolas Guerschberg (piano), Luciano Jungman (bandoneon),Jorge Kohan (guitarra), and Damian Bolotin (violin):

Quality materials covering thumb position?

Yazan: Jason | 09 November 2010 | 4 Comments
Categories: bass

Double bassist Erwin has emailed before with questions about double bass techniques–here’s another one that I thought I would toss up on the blog for some reader comments: Hi Jason, To my surprise i found my question about holding the bass in thumb position on the site. Cool man! Here’s something new. Fingering in thumb [...]

My class tech projects

Yazan: Jason | 08 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: technology

I’m wrapping up teaching a music technology course for music education students at DePaul, and I’ve been looking back at what worked well and what didn’t in terms of projects. One of the ones that seemed to be a hit in the class was the following project–in GarageBand, they were to design their own soundtrack [...]

Michael Cameron in the South

Yazan: Jason | 06 November 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass

This week bassist Michael Cameron from the University of Illinois heads to the deep south for master classes and recitals. He will be the guest of Professor Marcos Machado at the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, giving master classes Tuesday and Wednesday, November 2 and 3. He will also give a recital on Thursday, [...]