Thank you Tony for putting this up.
Thank you J M Piper for your reading patterns. (I'm still on board!)
And thanks to everyone else who has contributed.
This is a great site, from which I've already learned a lot.
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Hey everyone.... This is my first blog on Tony's site and wow what an honor to be in such company as Tony, John, so many heavy hitters... very nice
Anyways. in the past couple months my life has been so hectic working working working that…
Hey Tony,
I told you about the theater show I'm gonna do from January untill april, right?
Anyway, I got all the music and it's about 42 pages of music that I have to play by heart... and it's drums, Vibes AND marimba. The composer is…
Recording of today's sight reading etude with the pedal down throughout using dampening.
Link to etude: http://www.vibesworkshop.com/story/sight-reading-exercise-each-day-shap…
Here is a step by step video series showing how to build the MBrace.
Anyone wishing to build a pair of MBraces should go to www.johnmarkpiper.com to purchase the complete MBrace plans ($15.00). The plans include instructions and drawings…
Here's a tough mental challenge.
EACH MEASURE is a mental exercise that becomes an ear stretcher as well. I find this exercise very difficult and if you don't.... then speed it up. This is what I started out doing when I wrote "The Shapes…
Hey Guys,
This is the first chorus of the Blue Bossa Dexter Solo. The recording quality isn't great (still working out the kinks in the recording setup), but it gets the idea across. My goal is to have the second chorus done by the end…
Hey Tony,
Next time we meet up online along with discussing the transposing can we also get me started on playing some blues? I've played blues in the past but I've always wanted to sound like the recording of yourself playing Blues in…
Hey Tony,
A few days ago I got a call by some 60 + jazzband and I have a gig with them on the 2nd of november. They're probably not that good, but hey this is a good way to get a tune list going. They sent me a list of tunes, and that's…
Anyone on board with "A Sight Reading Etude Per Day"? I'm curious if anyone is using the pages I'm putting up for Sight Reading. If so, please email me or post it here to let me know. I'd like to track the progress if possible but if no…
Barryk asked me to talk about how I composed the Vince Guaraldi piece.
Well, I'm not a 'real' composer, so I'm not experienced in developing themes and other techniques that a real composer would use. But I have written a few pieces and…
Here's a great solo by miles on the original So What recording. This is a great solo for beginning students. It's fairly simple, but the melodies are great!
This podcast just talks about the opening chords to the etude. There's a link to the lead sheet if you don't have it. Also there's a link to the lesson plan to see what other lessons for this etude have been posted.
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