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!
I spent the day, getting a 7 part series together on intros and endings! This is certainly something every vibe player struggles with at some point in his journey. I don't consider myself great at intros and endings, but I've worked on them.
The series will come up every 2 days with a new episode for the next 14 days! So you can spend the next 2 weeks thinking about intros and endings and practicing them!
This is great. David is a deep cat. I love his playing!
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! :-)
yo man,
post the friedman!
Hey Guys,
Tony inspired me with his crazy version of Alone Together, so I decided to take this tune as the next tune to study this week.
Remember, I'm trying to keep things going here and I hope you guys join in and record the tune. The deadline is next friday, so let's all post someting, ok?
I'm working on a play-along for you guys to record with and I hope to have it ready monday evening. In the meantime, check out the tune(hopefully by ear and not by realbook) and check out Tony's post(see check this out).
If a few people sign up. I'll get online monday and talk about 'Have You Met Miss Jones' for an hour.
Sign Up by leaving a comment here that you'll attend.
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.
In this section we will study and play a tune every week.
In some cases we will have a duet verion to record with or everybody will record a solo version or even a version with aebersold or band in a box. In fact everything is possible. As long as you study the tune and record something.
I hope this is gonna be helpful for a lot of you guys!
TJ
