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Another cut from the Mountain View Concert

I posted a few songs from the 2009 Mountain View concert series my group did on Thursday. We had played the same college 2 years ago resulting in the video of us playing Tin Tin Deo that up on YouTube.

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Anyone near Dallas interested in a mini workshop early February?
click here for more info

I'll be playing with Elio Villafranca quartet Featuring Grant Stewart on sax.

I'll be covering the following topics:

Sound production
Phrasing, with and without dampening
Thoughts on sticking
Practicing concepts
A non-traditional scale approach
Arranging jazz standards for the vibraphone

(I'm glad I'm going! - tm)

Here is another of my tunes that we ran a trial run of at our last concert. It's called Waltz for Dasha...

Enjoy!

James

For my (Tony Miceli) part of the workshop I'll cover many of the things that I cover here.

Stride Vibes
Lines (clarity)
Learning Tunes
Playing Tunes in 12 keys (How easy it really is)

I'm always interesting in talking about getting players to break down there playing and see where they are at. This is great for practicing, that is learning how to find where you're at with something and then build on it. Too many players jump right in and build on confusion. To me that's no good.