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Ok, I know I come up with lots of ideas, and some don't make it. But heres another one.

I think I'm going to try and do office hours, like we do in college. Maybe pick a night and do a few 45 minute sessions with anyone that needs help with something.

Don't think of this as a lesson exactly, this is where I just help you with one thing you're working on. Maybe try and get you over a hump.

Here's a new piece that I composed.

It's called "Warrior"

The piece is in 4 movements connected together.

I.Love
II.Hope
III.Pain
IV.Revenge

Hope you like it,

The piece is still highly improv based but I've started to notate it.

I saw a workshop with Joe Lovano in my neighborhood last week and something he said kinda stuck with me. It was a little question and answer session between the sets and someone had asked about this apartment that Kenny Werner had in Brooklyn (I think this was in the 80's)that they used to hang at. It was surrounded on all sides by a vacant lot, so they would hang and play all night long. What this reminded me of seems really simple, but crucial; they used to play ALL THE TIME.

Man am I excited! First Joe Locke then Terry Gibbs, NOW GARY! Detroit doesn't get many big name vibists coming to town so every chance I get to see one of the greats I don't pass it up.

I had the opportunity to meet Joe when he played with his Milt Jackson tribute band. Unfortunately I didn't meet Terry but I sure hope I can meet Gary just to say hi and maybe get a pic with him.

http://www.detroitjazzfest.com/11lineup.html

hi,

this was the best "one take" of that song i could do before my holidays.still some wrong notes but i would call that my final version.thank god i´m no calssical musician where i have to play always EXACTLY what´s written. it´s tricky if play a acceptable solo, i suck somewehere in the head and vice versa.

On my last visit to the Royal Academy of Music in London, some of the students had prepared things for me which they'd acquired or learned from Vibes Workshop (2 of the students did a duo arrangement of "Sword of Whispers, including Dana Sudborough's solo transcription).
Because VW is such a valuable source of information & inspiration, Neil Percy (Head of Percussion), the students and I just wanted to say.....

Once again it's the end of the semester and I'm going nuts. However I'm thinking to the summer. You know guys, I would really like to work on connecting us all in some way. But it requires effort on all of our parts. For instance, what about a weekly hang, we just get on livestream or whatever and just play some stuff and talk. it could skype, whatever.

From FB, I came across a piece of music with a vibist I didn't know: Karl Berger. This piece was... well a bit too much for me... Still curious, I went to Youtube and found this totally different piece with same vibist... Beautiful all the way!!

A little bio of Karl Berger from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Berger

I'm sure some of you know him... tell us more!!! - M

Which one are you and why?

I'm a 2 and 4 guy, but today I was messing around with 1 and 3 and digging it and seeing the possibilities.

There's been some talk on the site lately about what should a beginner do around here. First off if you're a beginner, you need one thing on your side. That's time. You have to have a lot of time on your hands. You need to be able to go slow.

I think just tackling the mechanics of the the instrument will take at the very least a year. Scales, arpeggios, dampening and pedaling. That's a year of hard work. Add to that learning some simple tunes, the blues scale, chord inversions and a few other things and you are one busy cat!