Just some quick tips I was thinking about with chord voicings. You know the goal is to be quick with all the voicings. So you have to practice moving around the instrument and getting familiar with the voicings. That takes a lot of work and time, but once mastered comping gets a lot more fun!

Thanks to Peter Dee Academy of Music and John Daley, on my left, with his arm on the vibes, for his support. The incredible turnout for this workshop is his feat.

These were from the recent vibes workshops in Sessenheim, the Netherlands during which Nico vanderPlas discussed making these beautiful instruments.

I'm thinking about how to do a day online in August where maybe different vibe players do concerts all day online. I think we would need about 6 or 7 people, start at noon on a Sunday and go until 6 (Philly time). That should get most of us in there. Each of us would play about 45 mintutes.

Any ideas or takers? It would be the first online Day of Vibraphone!

I try to take walks every day, partly to listen to music and mostly because I'm out of shape and overweight!

I think I posted once before about this and I think posted about a Friedman CD. Hmmm, I came home today and wanted to post about listening to Rios on my walk.

Great walking music first of all. Sonically the sounds of the instruments are beautiful together. This made the walk fun.

Check out this exercise I used to help me compare modes.

So August 1st we are one year old here at www.vibesworkshop.com. I've been looking around the site thinking about how far it's gone and all the friends here that I've made.

The friend part is incredible to me. I just can't believe how many buddies I have now. And friends from all over the world which is great.

There's been some talk about starting a tune club on the site. I decided to post a lesson on a tune. The lesson has an assignment. I figured if 5 guys to the assignment and post it, then I'll do the next part of the lesson. So check it out!