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...
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!
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...
Apple has released some really excellent ads over the years. Their short-lived but very famous 1984 Superbowl ad is very memorable:Steve Job’s keynote address announcing the Macintosh from the same year is also really great:A more recent ad for the...
I have another audition story I’d like to share. If you like this story, you may want to check out my stories about what to never bring into an audition, my disastrous audition for the San Jose Symphony, or any of my other gig tales.A certain bassist (who shall...
