The Chromatic Endpin – Rehearsal Reflections
Last night was my first rehearsal using the Chromatic Endpin. (See my other posts about setting up this endpin.) I continue to use the settings I describe in “day three.” And I got to compare notes...
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The Chromatic Endpin—Making a Change Months Later
Well, it has been almost a year that I have been using the Chromatic Endpin. Previous posts detailed my experiments with different rotation angles, and I had settled on an angle that shifted the weight...
View Article100 Days—mm41-42
The start of a new little project. 100 days I don’t have much playing on the schedule for the next month or so. And I have wanted to do this “100 days” thing for a while: Pick an endeavor, do it every...
View Article100 Days, Day Two
Measure 40 has been added to the collection. https://soundcloud.com/jacque-harper/100-days-of-bass-40-42 It’s going really well, don’t you think? I did rush a bit on this excerpt. Tempo is supposed to...
View Article100 days, Days 3 to 8
Some very brief notes about my practice and recordings for days 3—8 of my 100 days of learning a new piece. (Rather than post to the blog each day, I’m gathering up the better part of a week. I noticed...
View Article100 Days Day 9 or is it Day 17
Well, that stinks! I actually missed more than a week of this project, just because other things (“LIFE”) got in the way. I’m pushing myself past my self-disappointment to get this posted tonight....
View Article100 Days Day 10/21
The “100 consecutive days” is not going very consecutively. Today, after several more days of “not getting to it,” I worked on measure 32. As I mentioned in my last post, the previous measures are...
View Article100 Days Day Number … aw forget it
I’ll start this post by saying that I don’t want to say this is a post about failure. But it is about realizing that something isn’t working, and that I’m stopping that something, and I’m going to muse...
View ArticleAuditioning. Again. :-)
So, yeah, it’s been over a year since I last posted here. That’s stupid, but I guess also that’s life. This post announces another kind of stupidity that is life—the life of a musician, anyway. I’m...
View ArticleReading Session—September 2021
Wow, it has been a long time since I wrote a blog post hereI held a music reading session. But a couple weeks ago—September 11, 2021 to be exact—I got together with Marc Temkin, John Sutton, Roland...
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