Don Schiff

Professional Musician

Don Schiff

Professional Musician

Thoughts on: My Life as a Working Stick Player

My Life as a working Stick player Enough time has gone by for this instrument to begin being accepted and to get calls for. I’ve played the Chapman Stick and NS/Stick on a variety of different situations. From Frankie Avalon, Raquel Welch, Dukes of Hazard tv...

The new age in music

I remembered to bring glasses as I knew I had to read a couple charts, but… forgot the charts. So I airdroppped them to my MacRack computer and read them from their! Clever I thought. Musically I feel I grew up in the Flinstone age but now I’m in the...

Falling for Photos!

I was asked to provide a photo for an upcoming album release I’m on. I thought I’d be clever and take a video of me moving and capture stills from that. LOL I fell for that...

Whiter Shade Of Pale

One of my favorite songs and even more so when I found such a great Hammond sound that I can trigger via midi from the NS/Stick. Enjoy along with me, the adventure of “What is the song about?” Lol… You’re not alone. The best I came up with is:...

Blue Note performance

I had a really nice show at the Blue Note in Napa last night. Here are a few pictures. Great place to perform. Playing with Tony Saunders. His tune Highway 5 is number #14 on billboard. Here we are playing it live. He is playing melody bass (way up high) and I’m...