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1. I am beyond practicing.
2. I play a regular gig at my empty venue.
3. Its easy to play anything I can play.

I hope this helps anyone who suffers from MWDP syndrome.
M - Masters
W - Who
D - Don't
P - Practice

Disclaimer:
As a charter member of IAC I need to point out this is done in humor and these affirmations are not intended for coaching purposes. It's just for a chuckle.

I saw a handbell player this weekend at a local art fest. I saw she had mallets and asked for a demo. I didn't know that handbells could be played with mallets.

The thing that interested me was that they can ring out when they are laying down on the table. She showed me that under the cloth was a thick foam cushion. This allowed some ringing, but with some dampening to shorten the ring duration.

Barry

Giving it away to the first subscriber who posts a chord melody version of the tune, 'What's New'.

The first one who posts it here, gets the Aebersold book title 'What's New'.

Here's a link to the book:
http://www.jazzbooks.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=JAJAZZ…

Thanks to toddc for donating a bunch of Aebersold books to give away.

You know I feel like you guys are an extension of my brain. I know some of you get that and that you would agree with me about your own brain. All this discussion and opinions about stuff stays with me! I've learned so much about duo playing from just hanging out with you guys and talking here.

My project with Diane Monroe is fueled by this site and all of you! We are working hard to get a duo group together and to work out the kinks. There are so many things that become apparent when you are baseless and drumless!

I think we should all feel really proud of ourselves. Look at the community we've created and look at all that's happening. I think we're all really doing something in a big way for the vibraphone. And this is cool. Yeah, I do the video and put up and lessons and set the page up, my partner handles all the programming aspects. But all that is useless without all of you guys. And we're coming up on 3 years and a lot of stuff is happening! This is great!

Just thought I'd mention that.

It was great to read what your gang wrote about what I said about not being able to teach Jazz. What I got back was not really what I was looking for. I only heard all the cliches. Listen to a lot of jazz-use your ears-know theory and chords - anybody can improvise which happens to be true . It may not be the most melodic improvisation but it is improvising. Even what you said

This time I hope to get some feed back for as you know Jazz has been my life. I will be 86 yrs old October 13th and I am still trying to find different things to play on songs that I have been playing all my life (Not Easy). Now what I am about to say will throw a curve to a lot of your members but I say this from experience and I will try to explain what I am about to say as best as I can.

"YOU CANNOT TEACH ANYBODY TO REALLY PLAY JAZZ!" What you can teach them is how to compose, write songs. Back in the 50's I had a student that played the Vibes pretty good and now wanted to play jazz.

Words being wholly inadequate
Music is the language of the spirit

Between the notes
The greatest impact
Reflection, time, color

Silence is played
Stewards of passion
The spirit alive and well

Words being wholly inadequate
Music is the language of the spirit

Hello All,
I wanted to post to say hello to everyone on that subscribes to this site. Quite frankly this is possible the coolest website I have ever come across. A sense of community is present and the information exchange is awesome. Above all, we can all help each other to become better players and teachers. I am happy there is a place for vibists to hang or just check out others work.

All the Best to you and yours,

Timothy

Hi All,

Poking around here as I've been working on the Vibesworkshop on Roku app, I discovered an interesting statistic -- as of this morning (2010-May-17), there have been 658 videos posted here. By access level there are:

• 18 Anonymous
• 462 Members
• 178 Subscribers Only

Jeesh! What a resource!

Tom P.