Duet for Violin and Bass by Chris Wind

Here is an unusual piece–this duet was originally written for either violin and cello or else as a duet for two kazoos! This performance is by violinist Perry Ho and bassist Jacky Wu. They recently performed the piece at the Canadian Contemporary Music...

Texas Tech University Music Theory Blog

I got a great comment from the Texas Tech University Music Theory Department Blog recently related to one of my articles on freelancing. I definitely appreciate the mention and agree with his elaboration on some of the challenges that musicians moving to a new city...

More Downloads, Better Downloads

I have been doing some work on my download offerings from this blog, adding some new materials (new scales from John Floeter, blank sheet music). I am planning on adding a large number of downloadable double bass MIDI practice tracks. This makes much more sense than...

Blog Functionality Example – Cow Country Bass

Scott Chaurette gave my blog a nice mention on his Cow Country Bass blog last month. Thanks, Scott! He has set his blog up in a way that many music instructors would find useful. He’s got tabs at the top of the screen for various student resources (lessons,...

List of Top 100 Web 2.0 Sites

Here is a great list of the hippest sites on the web today. I use a ton of these web 2.0 services myself. The list is organized by category, so you can check out the most interesting video, blogging, bookmarking, VOIP, games, Wikis, RSS, etc.Here is a sampling of the...