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Dan Saulpaugh
@dansaulpaugh.bsky.social
Singer-Songwriter • Composer • Webby Award Winning Sound Engineer & Producer • Multi-Instrumentalist • Game Master (GM/DM) • Anarchist • NYC

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Warmed up with a little piece by Sor #classicalguitar #fernandosor
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Autumn in New York by Vernon Duke

On my Cordoba classical guitar with @daddarioandco.bsky.social strings

I used to play this song a lot with my dad when I was gigging as a drummer in the North Country with my dad in my teens

#jazzguitar #jazzstandard #fingerstyleguitar #autumn #newyork
October 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
a verse and an interlude of You & I #singersongwriter #indiefolk #acousticguitar
October 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Stretching out on the intro to my song You & I with acoustic guitar great Charlie Rauh
#acousticguitar #indiefolk
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Fun weekend getting gussied up with the ever-stunning @marleymadding.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A couple choruses of minor blues on the Dizzy classic Burk's Works
#jazzguitar #dizzy #burksworks #improvisation #bebop
August 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Sometimes when you play bass in NYC it looks like this

📸 Alexa Jae Photography
August 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Beautiful night at the gaming table DM-ing for some friends

#dnd #ttrpg #foreverdm #GM
August 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Got my first roll of 35mm film developed! Here's what my day to day looks like in B&W

Ilford HP5 400 shot on a Canon AE-1 Program

#35mm ##filmphotography #ilfordhp5 #b&photography
July 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Brushing up on my djembe chops for some gigs this summer. These 3 patterns are from the Makru (Macrou) rhythm

#djembe #djembefola #makru #macrou #handpercussion
June 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
@kaitlingladney.bsky.social is such a brilliant photographer
May 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Threading the changes on I'm Beginning to See the Light by Duke Ellington #jazzguitar
May 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A little Duke Ellington at Bar Basic in Brooklyn - I'm Beginning to see the Light

#jazzstandard #vocaljazz #jazzguitar #DukeEllington #Brooklyn
May 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Getting emotional with the rubato on this Andrew Paul original the other night at my birthday party
March 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Fun playing some jazz infused folk music with Cole Stone-Frisina, singing a Carter Family classic
#wildwoodflower #folkmusic #acoustic #jazz
March 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Fun times dressing up for Valentines Day and serenading you from behind the bass with @savannahjaine.bsky.social & Smoke Show Music Co!
February 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Warming Up today by reading through a Bach fugue I haven't played in a long time
February 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I rambled on my substack about physical and digital spaces changing, and the dissolution of small rooms to hear music in NYC

dansaulpaugh.substack.com/p/palimpsest...
January 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A 2025 goal is to keep a practice journal. I've always been terrible at this when I've tried. So, instead of planning my sessions out ahead of time, I'm simply jotting down what I worked on as I finish it. 3 days in and it's already adding some clarity to my current goals, progress, and challenges
January 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm on Substack now. 2025 I'm revising having a blog, and excited about being online in a longer format than I'm used to

dansaulpaugh.substack.com/p/new-year-o...
January 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Leaning into savory breakfast has been a real game changer
January 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
2024 was a year of building and working out of my home studio in Washington Heights. Sam Phelps & Luca Di Fabio being two of the artists I've gotten to share the space with so far
January 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I started to appreciate Mary Oliver's poetry only recently. Descriptions of geese and waking up to the slow, luminous world didn't yet fit with my own inner intensity. @marleymadding.bsky.social & I talked about the importance of slowness as praxis & stillness as an act of reclamation. #wildgeese
January 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Amazing time having Luca Di Fabio over to my studio tracking some demos on my Fender Rhodes mk1 the other night
December 29, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Tanz by Georg Fuhrmann for Renaissance lute
December 18, 2024 at 3:01 PM