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Looking for a great amp? I recently tried out the MarkBass brand of amps and this will be the next kind of amp I buy. I still really like SWR as well.

Looking for a luthier in the NYC area? Check out Bill Merchant. He build my custom extension in 2004 and does exceptional work.

Camino – Fast, clean, simple – it’s my web workhorse. Not as powerful as Firefox but not as cumbersome either.

“A fate worse than death?” contains 8 articles that I wrote whilst preparing “Performing in The Zone”. Some of the articles became source material for “Performing in The Zone”, a couple were downloadable as ebooks, and a couple aren’t available in other places. The aims of this minibook were basically to have these articles in a tangible form (I prefer paper to the screen! and to provide people with a kind of introduction into “Performing in The Zone”.  You can link to the amazon page for “A fate worse than death?” here: http://thezonebook.com/other_books.php

The 2nd minibook is called “Orchestral Auditions 101″. It is designed as a companion to a 3 day workshop I’ve put together for students of orchestral instruments. A link to the amazon page for “Orchestral Auditions 101″ is here: http://thezonebook.com/live_workshops.php

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The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) as Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive.

How To Practice.com has listed some tips on breaking down a difficult phrase or passage. Great for students as well as being a reminder to us more seasoned players!

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Check out some tips at my other blog, The Evolving Educator.

Freeware audio editing software, Audacity, has released a new beta -

Check it out here!

• The arco jazz bass project publishes this month a “hot” jazz standard: “Yesterdays” by Jerome Kern is ready from now on to download in mp3 format as a playback as well as an example with arco played solo bass. Besides, the piece is also given as a MIDI- and as a Band-in-a-Box-file (sgu).

• In the public domain area of the homepage of the PRObass Music Karl-Hans Bonzelett makes available his treatment of the sonata of Henry Eccles to download. Besides, the solo voice is given in the tenor clef as well as in the bass clef. But also the accompaniment is given twice: Once in g minor to the accompaniment of the contrabass in orchestra tuning and once in a minor to the accompaniment of the contrabass in solo tuning. And even the Präludium Mr. Bonzelett offers once in a version for harpsichord and once in a version for piano.

Looking for an original composition / commission?

Check out Michael D. Blostein.

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To promote improvising with the bow, one jazz standard is offered on the homepage once monthly. The download is for free. For each title there will be one mp3-file with solo bass which plays themes and improvisation as an example, and another mp3-file without the solo bass for self-practising . For those who themselves want to take hand on the pieces the arrangements will be also downloadeble as a midi file for the use in various sequencer-programmes, as well as a sgu-file for Band-in- a-Box. The arrangements will be made for the contrabass in solo tune.

This first month in July we start with two songs: “Gettin´Started” and “A call for all Demons” (as a call for all basses to play arco jazz bass:)

A virtual keyboard – great for young students.

Has lots of new posts and sporting a new, slicker theme…

An announcement from PRObass Music (www.probass.de):

PRObass Music (PRObass Musikverlag) recently published some interesting music for doublebass/doublebasses:

- Th. A. Findeisen: “Quartettsuite für 4 Celli oder 4 Kontrabässe” (quartett suite for 4 celli or 4 double basses)
This, finally, again available(obtainable) work is a highlight in musicallity, but also in virtuosity. Findeisen is here unusual kontrapunktal polyphonic without denying his romantic roots. The first mouvement (Adagio) is a serious, almost quite baroque seeming meditation. The following menuet is cheerful and is followed by an again serious and strictly polyphonic held mouvement (andante moderato) in which the first bass must master extremely high positions. The last mouvement (humoreske) however is witty and elegant again

– Edie W. Cane: “Oliog”
This cheerful piece is rather unconventional in its form: There is a 5 bars long theme and a 10 bars long part whose chords are based on the main notes of the theme. The edition contain a voice in C, in Bb, in Eb and one in the bass clef.

I reduced the price of the print editions of my book. Check it out!

Check out Bowfire. They are amazing and all my students, regardless of age, have been absolutely enthralled with them!

If you organize a lot of PDF or similar files, check out Paperless from Mariner Software. It’s a great way to organize digital sheet music, receipts, etc. and is currently on sale.