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After You've Gone by Tarik Dosdogru

normally i would not post this tune yet and practice it some more weeks but then i remind me about my own spirit of posting thoughts and here it is. i´m not satisfied with some parts of it, specially the verse before the melody starts is played a bit loveless.but you get an idea what i´m working on at the moment. it´s alsmost the same style like i did on the sunny side of the street but this song is harder for me to do...no idea why, maybe because it has more chords.

tarik

Happy St Patrick's Day

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Since it's our national day of celebration here I would like to wish you all a Happy St Patrick's Day, and for anyone with Irish roots hope you have a good one, Slainte!! Enjoy the vid it reminds me of when Tony came to Ireland for the first time and played this well known melody....:)

John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU&feature=player_embedded#at=19

East Coast Vibe Summit

Maybe we should tie in with our partners in the west? I think we could easily pull off an East Coast vibe summit. I could get us a place to play no sweat and get the band. We chip in for food and have a really nice hang.

What do you east coast people think??? I'm just going to need help organizing and setting it up.

Ideas??

Bill Evans!

soooo, tony and bill eavans are kind of similar in a way..
i watched just a video from tony talking about putting yourself in a box, and this interview of bill evans goes along with that idea. there's just so much to say about it, hopefully some people will have their own ideas on it.I think bill evans is one of the most interesting people to hear speak. it's pretty simple ideas, but said very well and clearly.

24 hours!

in my lesson we talked about approaching practicing for a little, and tony reminded me of a bill evans quote.

"It's better to practice one tune for 24 hours than it is to practice 24 tunes in an hour."

I'm guessing he didn't mean literally to spend 24 straight hours on a tune, but i'm on break, and i've got some free time... we've been working on fried bananas in our lessons, and so in the next few days i'm going to pick a day to wake up at 8 or so, and practice fried bananas for 24 hours, with some breaks for food.