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Feb, 6th and 7th. Workshop at VanderPlas Studio with DAVID FRIEDMAN AND myself.
Then in July (still waiting for the dates) a 4 day workshop in Ireland with me (Ireland is very affordable, this will be our most inexpensive workshop by far).
ACE OF CAKES
Hi All,
There's been a great discussion on a thread started by Steve Shapiro on the future of the music business (see check this out). I've been enjoying that quite a bit, but I'm worried that it's a bit too esoteric for most of the people here. So I'd like to start another thread about concrete steps working musicians can take in the new environment to optimize their chances of making a decent living.
Today I was running an errand at lunch that took me off of my normal beaten path and past Alan Dawson's old neighborhood in Lexington, MA. That started some reminiscing that I thought would be good to share.
Now that we've added the glockenspiels to our product range, it is time to expand our diversity of ads.
My goal was to get at least some humor in the ad campaign and for the glockenspiel get rid of the dusty image, but keep the ad appealing to the market it is for. Also the eVibe now that it has been upgraded needed an ad.
With the acoustic models we still have the nice Joe Locke ad, so there is no need to change here.
I posted some stories about not so great students, recently. So of course I've been remembering things about my teaching and playing career. One aspect of my teaching and performing career was in prison. I was in prison(s) for about 8 years with my vibraphone!
Hmmm...
About a week ago, I thought oh man, what's tj up to. He seemed a little over the top and a little too gun ho.
You know as the cat who runs the site, you have to be really careful about things, what you say and what you do. Something as many of you know, I'm not good at. There's been a couple times when I've wanted to hit the block button on a user, or pull something down. I bet some of you have wanted to ban me!! Ha Ha, but you can't! :-)
I was just playing the piano and realized, I could not dampen single notes while holding the pedal down. But you CAN on a vibraphone! I probably would never have even tried, if I didn't play the vibes.
Barry
Well, when I make up these lessons, they usually leave me with a lot to practice.
I've been playing probably a few hundred versions of Invitation over the last few weeks. It's a difficult tune to play solo. And I'm busting my ass on it, big time!!! It's really inspiring to know that while I'm practicing all these other guys are practicing also. I know when I'm practicing in the evening that Barryk is over at his place doing the same thing! That's pretty cool.
No Vibes, but I have never heard anything like this before...