Barryk asked me to talk about how I composed the Vince Guaraldi piece.

Well, I'm not a 'real' composer, so I'm not experienced in developing themes and other techniques that a real composer would use. But I have written a few pieces and arranged a bunch of things.

This is a multi part lesson. In here is also a lesson plan with all the parts together.

Check out this video!!! Two giants!! Amazing!!

(This is a piece I wrote and have named it after the great composer Vince Guaraldi. The lead sheet is here, as well as an etude where you can work on different aspects of solo playing.)

Here's part 2 of this lesson. Go to the lesson listed above for more info.

Try not to look at this pdf until you've done part one of this lesson. That was to take the lead sheet and try and figure out the chords to the tune.

When you're ready look here and if you got it.

In part 3 of this etude, I'll talk about the etude and play the tune for you.

I just saw barryk's post on the site. He put up a little clip of him playing along with an audio track from a youtube vid. I was really happy to see that.

You know I can post lots of stuff and will, but when you guys get more involved in the site and post audio, and blog, that's when the site REALLY grows and great things happen.

I would love to hear and see what the subscribers here and doing musically. I know JL12 is going to post a Friedman etude that we're going to put in the Good Vibes Book. That's really cool.

OK this was a hard one work out for me. It took a while and a lot of work. I wanted to keep the quarter note pulse for the whole tune!

Here's a version of Lush Life from a while back. I was working on 2 things here. You'll here the octaves as soon as the main melody starts and you'll hear me going into the stride stuff after a while.

Here's an old version of Beautiful Love. I remember working and studying this tune. It's really fun to play.

This is a version of Donna Lee (rom the archives). I do studies of tunes sometimes and really work on ways to play them solo. I remember working hard on Donna Lee to work out ways to play it. Check it out.

Good food and I usually have a great bass player with me!! 11 till 3.