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For the "veterans" of thevibe.net, do you remember Polish born vibist Les Blachut? I have a good memory of a pleasant and funny guy, his six mallets theory (and practice!) and of that fun picture of him holding 8 mallets! Ha! :o)

He recently contacted me through Facebook: what a good surprise! I saw that he is here as member, but too busy to participate (so far)… between his work and his… twin babies! ;o)

Gary playing some Piazzola! He gets house on his solo!!!! Great solo!

Here's the next tune for the Tune of the week series.

I saw Barry's post and thought it would be nice to do Mood Indigo this week.

Try to do a version like Barry did, so playing block chords. Voice the melody with four voices. If I have time, I'll make a video lesson on block chords. I think Tony has a lot of video's where he talks about this and also the drop 2 lessons by Dana are also a study in block chords.

I'm pretty busy this week, but I'm still gonna try to do as much as I can.

CU

TJ

Guys, here’s another one. We’re playing my composition Hope. The intro featured a drone which was Lieb’s idea. I like the mood that it set up for the tune. The lead sheet can be downloaded from my website here: http://www.edsaindon.com/originalcompositions.htm

Part Two can be checked out on my YouTube page here: http://www.youtube.com/edsaindon

I found this also. I think this is piece I heard a while back. I think it sounds great!

This is so deep. The LINES!

In the book 'This is Your Brain on Music', I'm reading about what it means to be an expert. Many scientists use the 10,000 hour theory. That is generally speaking to become an expert at anything you have to spend 10,000 hours working on it. That translates to 3 hours a day for about 10 years.

I thought this was interesting because at least this gives us an idea about practicing in a general sense. He brings up things like Mozart writing a symphony at age eight and argues that you don't have to be an expert to write a symphony.

Vibraman found this vid and did a web link to it. I wanted to get the vid right here and put it in our vibe players section.

Check out Lars Erstrand. He sounds so good, I think.

Great find Vibraman!

Oh man… It finally happened: no more need to practice, any technique, in any key. No more pain in wristles, or bleeding fingers. No more white nights in your basement...

You can all sleep in peace: here is the real future of all percussionists… :o)

- M

HELLO EVERYBODY.I RECENTLY PLAYED IN A JAZZ FESTIVAL IN GREECE AND I THOUGHT IT'S GOOD TO POST 3 PIECES.I KNOW THERE ARE MISTAKES AND WE LOST THE TIMING BETWEEN THE SAX PLAYER AND ME AND THE DRUMMER.ANYWAY IT IS NOT PERFECT...THE CONCERT WAS DUET VIBES-SAX AND THE DRUMS JAMS WITH US.I AM WAITING YOUR COMMENTS.