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Here is something I would like to talk about and open up for discussion.

I think with every lesson and study that there is a hidden field that doesn't get talked about quite enough, and the hidden field is average time required for the lesson. We can pick a general number for this, that is the amount of time most musicians should put in for the required task or study.

What's great about this site is that a week can be a month or a year!!!

Check out this Parker lick. I thought it would be interesting for your guys to play it through the keys and learn from it. Very simple and to the point, but it weaves through the changes like Bach!

I won't tell you guys any more about it, why don't you figure stuff out and post it in the comments.

I'll give a free pair of my mallets to the first person who posts a record of them playing it without stopping and through all the keys.

Hi all,

Here's a version I did of Etude No.2. You can find the pdf to the music here http://www.vibesworkshop.com/node/4499 If anyone's working on this and has questions, please feel free to fire away with questions, enjoy!

Behn

Hey any of you subscribers hand drummers also? If so email me if you would like access to our new hand drum site and I'll tell you what's up. Pretty cool stuff.

tony@tonymiceli.com

Ok University of Delaware students, tell us about yourselves.

What year are you?
Who's your favorite vibe player?
What's your favortie vibe cd?

and anything else cool.

We got a who is. Why not a 'Why Is It....' Series.

Things that are difficult and unexplainable... sort of.

At least from the perspective of the person posting.

My first 'Why Is It...' is:

Why is it so hard to play four mallets on a swing tune where the melody is in the upper octave.

I've been playing 'Long Ago and Far Away' for a while now. I'm in G and trying to voice nice chords underneath the melody which I'm playing in the upper octave.

ALSO the frickin melody starts on the root. That makes it ever tougher to voice.

There's the first why is!!!

Hello!

This is my first post!

This is my band Paradoxonia.

I hope you like it,even though the sound is bad

All the best:)

Vaggelis

This is a great way to approach music. It speaks to me very much.

The is to part II.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as41_2qgJPo&feature=related

So the TOTM I think has proven to be a little difficult for some of you guys. Seems like a couple people are keeping up, but not more than that.

That's ok, even if this gets you to really learn the melodies or the chords, it's a good thing. I think what's important here is that you guys know that it takes work to do this, and keep all that in mind. Then just do the best you can when it comes to learning tunes.

I'm going to wrap this one up in the next lesson and then we can decide whether to pick another tune or not.

Any thoughts?