Hi folks,

So I just spent the day in Dayton at the Ohio PAS Day of Percussion. Lots of great stuff going on, with the cherry on top being Rusty playing at a hip little pizza joint with a killer quartet!

After getting to watch guys like Rusty, Michael Burritt, Bob Becker and others perform I was blown away by the individual stage presence all of these guys had. While driving home I was thinking about this; now I'm beginning to become obsessed with the psychology of performing music.

Okay Tony, based on your advice from today's lesson, I worked up the melody with chords. Before I take it into another key, anything I should be doing differently? I know I hit the last chord twice so just ignore that part :P

Thanks to you and Behn for doing the livestream lesson; that was cool! And I dig the skype idea too

For those of you who took the class today, thank you! Me and Behn are really trying to get some stuff going. I've been meeting with Behn and we've been brain storming.

Ok, Your assignment is two parts.

1.Tell us what you liked about the class, and if there's anything you think we could do to make it better.

2. Do one of the following:

• Bass notes and melody to How Deep is the Ocean
• Chord Melody to How Deep is the Ocean

Make sure your time is good, so play this as slow as you need to keep the time. That's very very important.

Hey there,

I´m Matthias Goebel, I´m organising the free housing and payment for the winterworkshop in Duesseldorf/Wuppertal.
Please send me an email, if you have any question about these subjects.
You can pay the fee while entering the workshop or do a transfer to

Mallet-Institute
kto 1006362469
blz 30050110
bank. sparkasse duesseldorf

If you have any problems with your transfer or hotel or ... just ask me.- :D
For the moment I got two members for free housing. Free housing means that you will stay at a student or with friends of mine.

Looking forward to meet all you,

Hi there ,
I will be playing Monday Jan 21st at NUBLU in NYC , 62 Avenue C betw 5th &6th , at 9pm ,
it will be a quartet with Marcello Pellitteri on Drums , Loic Blejean on Uilleann Pipes ,
Benito Calle on Bass and we'll be playing original music for a couple of sets.

Here is the first etude of our TOTM, How Deep Is The Ocean. Pdf is attached.

Feel free to look at it, and even if you don't have time to learn it, I will still take any questions about it on Saturday during our class. Enjoy!

A basic version of the melody with some left hand accompaniment. PDF attached.

i tried to take more risks and play it faster than on the video version. the head arrangement is almost the same. i listen a lot to tonys version...and the more i tried the more i adore tony for his 4 mallets,fast playing solo vibes skills.

some things worked out cool on this version some suck...like always...
tarik

it seems we forgot a very cool version with the singers...maybe because we don´t expect him to sing jazz.

i like this version because it´s so simple and clear.

here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRWhUo5g0K0

tarik