Well as I'm watching all my gigs slow up in this awful economy, I'm wondering how I'm going to handle this and hang on until things pick back up.
Then I was reading 'Pet Owners' Quarterly and I saw an article that's about to change my…
Hi all!
I visited the www.rossmallets.com site and it turned out that apparently Ross vibes are no longer available but there is another brand called Majestic that belongs to Jupiter who has a new series of vibes.
Check it out: http://www…
I was replacing the threshold on one of my exterior doors. Took the threshold out of the package. It was aluminum, so I'm thinking, hmmmm, what's the pitch? I can really use a low-E. Uhh, no, but I have the start to making a Gyil. lol…
My practice time is inversely proportional to the number of posts per day on this site. So keep it down ;-). I had a nice practice tonight. Some scales, some tunes.
One thing led to another and I started playing Norwegian Wood in 6ths…
More on my Cherokee etude! It's soooo hard.
I'm going to turn it into an etude so some of you can be miserable! I wonder if it's easier with the Stevens grip? I'm working on it and it's getting better!
Frits is one of the cats in Holland. A great player. He's also partners with Nico Vanderplas and they're now making the best vibraphones in the world. That is according to Joe Locke and John Piper. And Frits plays his 'you know what's' off…
Tonight, our local jazz station played Henry Mancini's Love Theme From "Romeo And Juliet" (A Time For Us). I thought I would give it a try on vibes. It's in Gm, so I got to work in a different key.
Suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,…
I went to college and have a degree. However some of the best learning I did was off the street. Listening to musicians teach tunes to each other. That's a true lesson in analysis! Someone on a bandstand teaching a tune to a bass player in…
I decided to do a series of analysis of tunes.
I decided to call this series 'Pimp My Tune', and I think you could definitely call this 'Ghetto Analysis'. I did go to college, but I was interested in playing and learning off the street.…
Chris Farr had did an online class tonight where he talked about Dominant Chords.
Here's the link to the video
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HERE'S THE CHAT FROM THE CLASS
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What is the common point between those three songs:
- Autumn Leaves
- Beyond the Sea
- I wish you love
N.B.: Tifoo, and maybe Pap, this one is too easy for you, please let some time for the others to answer! Thanks! :o)
Watch the workshop here
Chris is a monster sax player. Played with Maynard Ferfuson and Jill Scott just to name 2 groups. He's a Philly guy and is probably the best young tenor around here.
He'll talk Wed. about playing over dominant…
