Here's a great video from a new site we'll be launching very soon. It's over at www.worlddrum.studymusiconline.com. Todd Isler is the instructor, he's a great percussionist and drummer.
He has a book out in our store called 'You Can Ta Ka…
I got a CD recently- "Swing Valses d'hier et d'ayjord'hui" by a manouche guitarist named Baro Ferret, recorded in France in 1966. All 12 tracks are manouche waltzes!
Geo Dali played vibes- pretty nice sounding stuff! I heard a lot of…
It's funny who you meet online! I met a person on youtube (Holyhell937)(Does this mean there are another 936 people who have used Holyhell as their youtube name???). He seems to be in high school, or junior high. I dug our brief dialogue…
Help me name tunes or parts of tunes that are Dorian in sound.
Ha ha, I got the first one. 'So What'.
Oh, here's another. The first to chords of Recordame.
Add on to this list please!
This morning I was reading through Steve Kahn's analysis of a Michael Becker solo and became so ill from anxiety that I almost lost my cookies.
Do I have enough time to learn such a vast subject matter?
It's scary to think that even…
F Blues with left hand comping along with soloing with the right hand. Dedicated to one of my favorite pianists in this type of style (with left hand comping four to the bar), Dave McKenna.
YES, RIGHT NOW Wednesday on www.smallsjazzclub.com you can see
BRYAN CARROT playing with the Ed Cherry Trio
GO THERE NOW and see one of the superb vibraphonists now until 12:30 EST tonight
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BruceW
I was supposed to be practicing, but was fooling around instead, and came up with this little pattern. I decided to make an Etude out of it. There is some rhythm permutations (is that the word?), inspired by Behn's VW Etude No. 1, and…
this is not vibes related but more for drummers on the site. I am in the process of restoring an old Premier shell set 12x8 16x16 20x14 which I acquired at no cost. They had a white covering on them which I managed to remove without…
Hmmm...
About a week ago, I thought oh man, what's tj up to. He seemed a little over the top and a little too gun ho.
You know as the cat who runs the site, you have to be really careful about things, what you say and what you do.…
Everyone:
I've been communicating with Tony and here's what we came up with for the Tune-of-the-Month Group (TOTM):
First week:
• Find and listen to 3 versions of the tune. You may have to buy them. Don’t just get them off YouTube. This…
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the modern business of writing song lyrics. See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487041649045754218135164517….
Tom P.
At the Delaware Workshop the first week in August, a number of the participants decided that they'd like to put into action some of the things they learned. To do this, it was suggested that a group of us work on a "tune a month" concept.…
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