Hi Everyone!

I'm kind of new to this post thing but I'll give it a try ;)
I thought it would be interesting to share with you what I've been going through these past weeks. I recently injured my right hand and I haven't been able to play with that hand for 3 weeks now.
I was talking to Tony the other day and I told him that in a way I was glad this happened because I have been able to do things that I wasn't really paying too much attention before.

Here are some of the things I've been working on:

I POSTED THIS OVER A WWW.LARRYSIMPROVPAGE.COM A WHILE AGO. THOUGHT I SHOULD PUT IT UP HERE! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Setting up and packing up is a total drag. A total $%^$& Drag.

Just from my practice sessions. I was just messing around with the changes from 'I Loves You Porgy'.

Here's some of the stuff I've been practicing. I don't have this quite down and might never! It's an almost impossible etude for me to practice!

Just thought I'd post this as well!

Here's a great Friedman Vid. Dave wrote the book 'Dampening and Pedaling'. He's one of the major players on the scene and has a very very unique sound on the instrument. I have always totally admired his lines, his comping, geez (to use a palin term) his playing!!!

What's extra great about this vid is there's no drums, you can really here him clearly and hear him comp rhythmically. Really cool stuff!

So when I was in college I came up with this plan that really helped me. It's a little over the top, but it could be a good guide for some of us.

In school it helped me keep the music going. Even after I graduated I kept this going and it helped me, I think stay in the business.

Here it goes, first:

Ear Training: 1 hour equals 2
Practicing: 1 hour equals 1 hour
Listening: 1 hour equals 1.5 hours
Jamming and gigging: 1 hour equals 3
doing music business stuff: 1 hour equals, .5 hours
teaching: 1 hour equals 1 hour

This is an original by me. Thought I'd post it. If there's something I miss, it's just coming up with stuff. I don't consider myself a composer, but I do write tunes. If had my own music school (wait, I sort of do don't I?) 2 hours of the day would be for students to sit and write stuff. Just come up with things.

2 hours would be ear training, 4 hours (in 2, 2 hour blocks) would be playing in an ensemble and 2 hours would be listening and 2 for theory. It would be 6 days a week.

Glad I got that off my chest!

So going along with with tmacoids great posts I thought I would post some tunes.

I love playing rock tunes. These are MY standards, the tunes I grew up with, and they have a lot of meaning to me. There are many ways to play these tunes. Some guys like to alter the changes and mess with the harmony. I thing there's a whole musical world to discover by playing the tunes as is and developing that harmony organically. Just my thought.