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Amigofish Is Your Psychic Podcast-Finding Friend
This is a great site for finding podcasts. Check it out!
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1,000,000 Downloads in less than 2 Years
Podcast guru Dave Jackson blogs about the excellent one-minute how-to podcast. This podcast is extremely addictive and can be very informative. I’m definitely a fan.
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I know that we’re well past the Messiah story trading season, but I couldn’t resist sharing this deliciously terrible video from double bassist Eric Steffens. Be sure to turn your speaker volume down–the person recording/transferring this had their settings really out of whack, and the audio quality is quite distorted. Still, if [...]

Home - Madison Bass Player
This site is an awesome idea! It is a place for Madison bassists to network, share songs and videos, blog, and more. Very well constructed and a really great concept.
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Jazz.com
Great resource and community site for jazz musicians. I can’t believe that I [...]

Here’s a video of Gary Karr describing the history of the ‘Amati’ double bass. Gary talks about the origins of this bass (further research of the instrument has shown that it was not likely to have been made by the Amati brothers) and how it came to be in his possession.

If you’d like to [...]

I’ve been enjoying reading the posts from Eastman School of Music senior (and former student of mine) Eric Steffens on his blog documenting his experiences studying bass in Vienna.  Eric has been having a great time checking out all sorts of things in Austria, like discovering a house that Beethoven lived in:

…seeing a performance [...]

Double bassist Eric Steffens, along with other Eastman School of Music students, recently transcribed and performed the entire “Illinois” album by Sufjan Stevens. This is a great album with dense orchestral textures, and the detail with which Eric and company recreate this album is stunning. I can’t imagine the hours involved in such [...]

I had an opportunity to get together with Eric Steffens, one of my very first double bass students, this weekend. Eric is a senior at the Eastman School of Music, and he just headed over yesteday to Vienna for a semester of double bass study abroad.
The photo on the left is from Eric in [...]

Eastman School of Music student Eric Steffens sent me a link to this very funny video involving a pianist finding creative ways to reach the chords in Rachmanoniff’s compositions. Check it out!

I’d like to congratulate my four students who made it into the District 7 Illinois Music Educators Association orchestra for Illinois. Scott Bakshis (who was principal bass for Illinois All-State last year), Ian Hallas (who was principal bass for district IMEA last year), Zach Yordy and Cameron Shenassa all got in. Great job, [...]