Vibraphone

Hello everyone,

Hey guys,

I got some more video that someone shot at my last trio gig, and was able to marry it with a clip I took with my phone for a slick "two-camera" production. Ha ha, pretty neat.... but what's crazy is that in low light, the iPhone video looks almost as good as the stuff from his two-thousand dollar DV camera.

Thanks to all for the nice comments on the last one, hope u enjoy!

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Barryk sent me a musser on Craig's list for $1000 dollars. It was for sale in Pennsylvania, my home state. I went to scoop it up. It needed some work the ad said. Ok, I'd buy it and fix it up and then work something out with a great student of mine. My goal was not to make a profit, but just have an instrument for when a student needed one. I have one student that's now looking for an instrument.

So I emailed the guy, told him I promised it would go into good hands and be put to good use. If he cared about the instrument than I was the guy to sell it to.

Your last assignment for the semester:

Pick an etude out of the Friedman: Dampening and Pedaling book and post it here. David Friedman will comment on your posts.

@Harvey - What's the due date?

Ok, let's close this up. There are a lot of lessons now about chords and harmony. For those of you who studied I'm sure you learned a ton.

So now demonstrate it. Work on a tune for a couple days and post something. Play chord melody, play solo, whatever but put it to good use and apply it while it's fresh.

Let's move on to the other side of all this and that's the line.

Post your 'final' here!

Very Interesting speech and very nice music (as usual with Gary !).

If you're driving to Holland for the workshop this February, put your vibes in the car and put them in your hotel room. Then you can practice at night for a bit. even if you have to play quietly.

I imagine February will be a slow time for the hotel, so maybe they can put us all together. Then practicing won't matter.

Just thinking ahead. If there were a few sets of vibes there then maybe they could be passed around a little bit from room to room. that is if we are close together.

We'll be wrapping up our 2011 Chord And Harmony Festival this week I think.

And of course with all the closings we need to sum what we've learned up in music. Here's my 'Final Project' for the festival. I'll also do a closing lesson to go along with this. I know it's out of order but who said it has to be in order! :-)