Since Tony posted about 'twitting' to learn more about music, I thought I'd thrown in another technology bit. On Facebook, you can become a fan of Musser Mallets and they put up a bi-weekly fun fact about their instruments. This picture and comment were this week's fun fact.

How can you make a note or notes get louder while they are ringing out?

Attached is an example.

Barry

Yep Move it sideways. Chords move sideways as well as up and down.

Here's the 4th A Train Lesson. It's on comping.

Steve Giordano, John Swana and Tony Miceli (Humpty)
This is from a recent online concert.

Here's a vid from an online workshop that we did recently. It's with Steve Giordano and John Swana. We talk about learning tunes, playing without a bass and practicing.

I didn't put this up already did I?

I was lost on the internet and came across these quotes from Bobby Hutcherson on this website:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/jazz/Hutcherson/

I always enjoy hearing what Bobby's got to say!

Quotes by Bobby Hutcherson

James Whiting posted a real pretty piece where he manually rotated the fan blades. Dr. Bob commented that he would like a crank on the side to override the motor and have the blades pop back to the open position. That made me wonder what I could make from things around the house to do that. Here is the result. I used a 7.5" Jumbo Rubber Band, Spring-type door stopper, shim, and a quick clamp. I screwed the door stopper into the shim and clamped it to the vibes. I replaced the original belt with the rubber band, gave it a twist so it would stay around the door stop.

Twitter is one of those web apps where it's kind of hard to find some meaning and usefulness. I always feel a little vain when I Tweet. But I recently found a good use for it especially if you don't mind sifting through some stuff.

Put in Coltrane or Milt or Hindemith (like I did) in the search box and search through this gigantic database of 140 character tweets (as they say). I found out some websites, some great cds and a few facts about Hindemith.

I'm starting to think that it's a really great tool for getting info.

Hi Guys,

Decided to do a quick recording of this really nice tune I found last week, I know its a little bit sketchy - but I guess leaves more room for comment. Thoughts, comments, feedback would be greatly appreciated. Apologies for this not being a video.

For those who know compositions of sam rivers they are often "out" so this is a nice little "in" tune with a short form, nice harmony and modal interchange.

Thanks,

James