Here's a solo to transcribe. I made it fairly simple, but not too. Memorize it. Record yourself playing on top of my solo. This is how you transcribe! This is how you steal other peoples stuff! All great musicians do it!
This is a solo…
Here's a podcast discussing comping over the 'A' section to Green Dolphin Street. If focuses on which notes are least important and expendable as well as using the C pedal in your comping.
A member of the site here just got his first gig on vibes. I thought I would mention that and mention how important it is to play live. Yes if you haven't done it, the first times are a little scary and might even be a disaster, but this…
Here is lesson two where I demonstrate harmonizing minor and dominant bebop scales. Make sure to run these through all keys with a metronome. Notice how the major and relative minor scales are identical (you only have to learn one that…
Thought I'd post my practice session with the tune 'My Romance'. Working on getting it smooth and finding lines to weave through the changes and keeping the tempo steady!
Hi All,
Here's a solo version of "Alone Together" for your consideration :-). I've been trying to get this together for weeks now, but have been battling technical issues and finally just decided to give up. There's some buzzing and…
I'm so glad that our site 'mother' came to visit us at Nico's. Here's her and David playing Summertime.
Marie was watching David play and she said, he's a 'maniac' isn't he. That's a term we have for someone who just practices and plays…
Here's a virtual conversation about playing via the internet. I don't have the time to sort it all out but if you sift through, it's pretty cool.
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so it sounds like this could possibly…
It took me a couple of days to get all impressions of last weekend into place.
Tho it may not look so, such a weekend is asking a lot from Paul and me here at the factory.
Preparing starts already on the Monday before:
- we needed to get…
If I had to make a fantasy workshop up, how I would like to see everything turn out, this would be it.
We all got to meet Marie, Nico and our guest David Friedman.
Man we all fell in love with Marie and her spirit. There is no one else…
Hi all,
Some of you will remember Arturo Serra, our Spanish member who attended last year's Sassenheim's workshop. He posted some time ago a link of his new CD with his quartet: "Loud-Zee".
Well I have the CD, and I can tell you that these…
