Vibraphone

The Philly workshop was amazing! The idea of traveling to a new city and spending 2 days in a room with 10 – 12 people I had never met before on top of not really knowing anything about playing jazz in the traditional sense made me a little nervous. Then getting up in front of really heavy players to show off my beginner chops scared me to death. However, I have to say I felt so welcomed and supported the entire time I was there. It was truly an amazing experience. My highlight was hearing Joe talk about the inspiration for his tune, Verrazano Moon.

hi all .....

its been a while since ive been on the site. The roots Reggae band that im playing Keyboards in has been travel almost every weekend. We are also goin to be backing " Studio one jamaician reggae legend NORMA FRASER, soon.

Since my wife and i moved down to southern oregon. my musical adventures have been primarily as a keyboardist .. playing B3, clav and other sounds ....also expanding into the use of my laptop on stage via reason 4 for some sampling and LIVE Dubbing....

"Within a Page" is one of my favorites. I wrote it while working on a page out of my sight reading book called "Shapes and Patterns of Music". The title comes after spending weeks on a single line trying to develop it into a song. When I finally came up with a "song" (that I really love), I realized that there was SO MUCH music and work that went into this small page of music. So I titled it "Within A Page". After coming up with the arrangement for solo vibes, I thought I'd offer it along with a lesson on how to play it. So, here it is in PDF download form. I hope you enjoy it.

This attachment on "Tritone Substitutions" goes along with Tony's lesson on "Pivot Chords".

yo,

we didn't get too much done this summer. that's cool as long as you're really ready to work hard now.

make sure you have the friedman book and get the bach sonatas and partidas for violin as well.

so just bring them to the first lesson so we don't waste any time.

cool?

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tony

Here's a 4 part lesson talking about scales and modes. Some introductory stuff with a little depth.

I remember joe talking to us about Vincent Herring. You guys remember that. I do think it's hard to keep up with players now, there are not as many clubs any more.

Ok so the classroom is here. it's just a question of what we want to do with it. which could be nothing if everyone is busy.

but it's here.

if you want to make some goals and things to do we can. then you guys could record the assignments and post things.

i'll post the first assignment and we can see where everyone is at:

Assignment:

So it's official with my new phone. I wussed out and got a Palm Pre instead of cancelling Sprint and getting the Iphone. The Pre however so far is really cool. It might not quite hang with the Iphone but it's up there.

It took me a week, but I moved all my data to Google. That means my life lives in the cloud now. The cloud is what geeks call that area where we have all our data and we don't quite know where it is, but it's there. If you use flikr for your photos then your photos are in the cloud.