Let’s Paint, Exercise, and Blend TV

This is something that has to be seen to be believed. John Kilduff does a cable access TV show called Let’s Paint TV where he paints, exercises, blends, and takes calls all at the same time. In this episode he paints a pie, eats a pie, runs on a treadmill, takes...

Jessica Duchen’s classical music blog

I recently discovered a great classical music blog. Jessica Duchen is a London, UK writer who regularly contributes to The Independent, BBC Music Magazine, and The Strad as well as other publications. Her blog is well-written and insightful and definitely worth...

Double Bass MP3 Scales – Practice Tracks and Downloads

You can find MP3 scale tracks, MP3 excerpt practice tracks, and a bunch of PDF resources on the blog’s downloads page. I also have a lot of useful practice material located within the free Contrabass Conversations app–check it out!

Northwestern University’s News at Seven

News at Seven is a recent project launched by Northwestern University (my Alma Mater). This thing is really amazing. It is a completely automatic news generator. Using characters from Half-Life, the program creates a news feed by scraping news sites, blogs, videos and...