I just had a great lesson with my student/buddy from Ohio, Jon Letsky. It's great to do the online lessons because I can see what I post in action. He's practicing invitation and doing the quarter note solos, chord tone solos and playing the tune through the keys and he's kicking ass with it all.

It's not a requirement to post stuff, but affirmation, completion and closure are important. At least with private students I get to see the stuff in action. What I've learned is at these ways of learning tunes DO work. I've seen them happen way too many times for it to be anecdotal.

We've been working trying to solve the Explorer problem but the reality is that Explorer is a big problem on any site. If you look through any CSS or html book, you see these parts where they show how to do cool stuff with the programming languages and then they tell you if Explorer can do it and if there's a way how to hack it to work. This has been forever.

Nothing I can say about loyalty, if you're into Explorer then ok, but if you're open, get Firefox, check out the cool add ons and then have a much better experience on the Internet.

Check out Warren Wolf. Pretty killin' stuff!

I'm just summing up what I practiced tonight. Might be of interest.

My teacher (Tony) wanted me to post this. It's me playing #5 in Friedman's Vibes Technique book. Rip me to shreds!

Me and Barry were having a Debussy party on Youtube. Check this marimbist out! wow!!!

I just found this guy, Felix Martinz, on You Tube. Really cool stuff he is doing with the vibes and his bands.

Invitation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmI-6JHJDg

Vetne 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkgNuwtjBM8

Home Page:
http://www.martinz.se/

Barry

Hi All,

I came across this recording of "Beautiful Love" from a gig a couple of years ago, and thought it'd be good to post. In addition to me on vibes, there's Brett Baker on guitar, Mike Caruso on bass and Ed Conley on drums. Hope you enjoy it :-).

Tom P.

OK, are you guys having IE6 problems? what exactly is going on.

IE6 is a terrible browser to start with. It's funny when you design something and it works with all browsers but IE6. Our first advice is to use Firefox.

Next, if you guys have a second, can you post exactly what's happening. I have to go download IE6 and test it as well. We think it's the shout box.

This is another recording from my gig at Bourbon Street.

Hal Corn- Drums
Joe Doubleday- Vibes
Mike Boyle- Bass

There were some time issues with the bass and drums at the beginning but I guess that's the way it goes.

Tips would be great.