Vibraphone

I'm big on getting my time together. I have very little of it now and I must use it wisely. I need to practice 2 hours a day minimum, or I'd rather donate my body to science and spare a few bunnies what they have to go through. I can't stand when I don't practice.

I'm always checking out productivity business cats and learning from them. I also frequent the site Life Hacker. There are MANY great tips on there. This latest is a good one I think.

I know everyone is going to say play it slower and I do when practicing.
But this is about where I'd like it to be. It may be a few clicks to fast ....hmmm.... not sure yet. This is 158 BPM.

Figuring out solo vibes stuff is really challenging and fun!!!!

Anyway I had to post because we are moving on to Blue Bossa.

Be kind :)

Yes Tony you're right, good question: who is Joe Porter? Huh?

Angelo, J, Vaglio

With Tony Miceli's help, I am trying to get my first blog video into this edition. The song is: "A Touchof Your Lips", that I used to play frequently, years ago when someone requested it. Please let me know if it came through okay.

Thanks, angelo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0LDQzxYLvU

Kind of makes learning tunes a lot simpler doesn't it?

Oh man... I got this from Joe Locatelli on Face Book... I missed this program early September... though the gig is from 2007... Remember, that same gig when they did "Old Folks".

Enjoy!

- M

PS: I love Bobby's look when listening, the "duet tribute", and those beautiful solos: what a gang!! :o) More soon I'm sure! ;-)

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.

Angelo J. Vaglio, 93 years of age and still going on the vibes..............!

01. Started learning to play mandolin at age four and went to one of the first music studios at age 17 to study the guitar, (3 months lessons @ 25 cents each & $1.00 a month to rent the guitar). after 3 months of intensive practice (no radios or TV's that time), the teacher said that I had to start taking advanced studies because I had completed the studio's beginner' program, and with no available cash, had to quit the program, but I continued to practice always.