I just enjoyed the lesson of Mike Pinto. I'm a fan of his CD "Prologue"... I totally dig the sound of vibes with sax and voice. So now I have a band in this formation.
This is a composition of mine called "strange country". It's just a simple recording of a rehearsal. I think the vibes are a bit too quiet and I'm not satisfied with my solo... it's hard, because it goes from 6/8 to 5/8 to 4/4 and mine is the only chordal instrument.
But enjoy...
Simon

Today was my last day in Philly, I finally got to sleep a little bit which was nice. I checked out of the hotel and went down to the University of the Arts where I was going to sit in on one of Tony's classes an hour later. I had planned to get here early in hopes of finding breakfast and right around the corner there was a place called Mama Angelina's (i think) and I got to have some awesome pizza for breakfast.

Jimmy White spent the week as an intern for vibesworkshop.com. Wednesday he came to Philly from Ohio to spend the day with me and see what goes on at VW as well as try to do some lessons. Here is Jimmie's lesson on Stick Dropping.

This tune is off of logans album entitled Ethos. Its a duet logan wrote that I really like the vibe of and thought some of you guys might enjoy it! I don't like how the vibraphone was recorded (it is very unclear) but sometimes you get what you get....

enjoy!

This is the tune I was playing with Tony in Holland in the "This is why Marie is so hip" video. It's got a beautiful melody and beautiful, simple changes, which nevertheless pose a challenge. I like to play this tune as a solo piece as well.

Behn Gillece shows you how he plays Bye Bye Blackbird

Cool lesson by Mike Pinto using upper structure triads on the tune My One and Only Love

Today was awesome!!! After about 4 hours of sleep and a huge breakfast I hit the road for Philly. With only two wrong turns I was about 5 minutes late.

Today started out a little rough, only got about 3 hours of sleep and had to run off to music theory, mail my application for that whole composition thing and then I ran down to the local drum store to pick up some mallets (Balter 23Rs, after seeing them in his product video). I was able to practice for quite a while today, finished really getting into Billie's Bounce and I started into Tony's lesson on Take the A Train but didn't get to far in. I still need to run through all the books sometime to double check I didn't accidentally throw something in the wrong folder.