Interview with Missy Raines
Fri, 07/27/2012 - 10:40am
Bass Magazine No Treble is featuring an interview with one of our bass instructors Missy Raines. She talks about her background with playing bass as well as her role in the new ArtistWorks Bass Campus, which includes bass lessons from fellow bassists Nathan East and John Patitucci.
Click on the image to read the full interview!
Doc Watson: A Tribute
Fri, 06/08/2012 - 4:56pm
Our bluegrass teachers have written some beautiful tributes to honor the passing of flatpicking legend Doc Watson.
Doc Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012)
"This was Doc. When he walked on the stage the air seemed to change. The light went to a new hue. The ambience he created simply by saying hello, recognizing his fellow musicians, and introducing his tunes, gave all of us a sense of greatness. We knew we were in the presence of one of us yet someone touched by light. We somehow were being showered with it from above and it was being reflected back to Doc in some magical way. He could see us with those ears I am sure.." - Mike Marshall
Read Mike's full tribute to Doc Watson at the Academy of Bluegrass
Darol Anger Remembers Doc Watson
Sun, 06/03/2012 - 6:46pm
I first heard Doc's live Vanguard record with Merle in about 1970, and a couple months later was able to see him at the huge and wonderful Zellerbach Concert Hall in Berkeley. Everyone was talking about him by that time! There was a very specific feeling associated with hearing Doc. There is an aliveness, and awareness to his playing which shocked me, and brought a sense of music as a living thing, which was a new thing for me.
I first heard Doc's live Vanguard record with Merle in about 1970, and a couple months later was able to see him at the huge and wonderful Zellerbach Concert Hall in Berkeley. Everyone was talking about him by that time! There was a very specific feeling associated with hearing Doc. There is an aliveness, and awareness to his playing which shocked me, and brought a sense of music as a living thing, which was a new thing for me.
Tribute to Earl Scruggs
Thu, 03/29/2012 - 4:54pm
Topics: bluegrass
Our teachers at the Academy of Bluegrass remember the legacy of bluegrass pioneer and banjo giant Earl Scruggs, who passed away yesterday at age 88. School of Banjo teacher Tony Trischka shares Earl's profound impact on his playing with our students and with NPR. Here's one such quote from NPR's On Point: "Even though I've done my own things and written my own tunes and stretched it in different directions, at the base of it, it's all Earl. I'm always teaching Earl things. His music is so subtle. Even today driving into New York, listening to things from the 50s [I was] picking up on things I had never heard before.
"The thing about Earl Scruggs style is that you can pick it up almost in one or two lessons. But then you can spend the rest of your life really trying to get it down.... I've been playing for 48 years and I'm still trying to get that sound....It's rare to find one person who defines a whole style of playing...one man who influenced hundreds of thousands--if not millions--of people." - Tony Trishcka
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