Ok. I tried to have some fun with this one. I set up two tracks on Ableton. One was for the solo loop the other was recording my take. I also set up a start record pedal and a stop loop pedal for the loop track. Then I started recording the take with metronome in the earphones. When I got to the solo section I looped a 6 bar phrase to solo over. I added the effects in post but the recording was all first take on my acoustic vibe through mics.

Sorry, there are many mistakes reading the etude (which rocks BTW!!! thx Tony!)

Guys,

I've been given this link by my guitarist friend Bernard after I shared the recent Clark Terry vid... This French band is too good!! FYI, on xylphone vibist Jean-Miche Davis. (pass it on! :o)

Enjoy!

- M

I'm here working on some forms I have to fill out and have Pandora playing a John Adams Station I made. All of sudden this marimba comes on and it's beautiful and articulate and stops me dead in my tracks. It's Evelyn Glennie and I just go WTF.

She plays great. How does she do it? What is she hearing? I hear her talk about it, but sometimes I go yeah right. But man she can play.

A true legend!

We will get together in the morning at about 9:30 until 12, then about 1 until 3 or 4.

We can probably work out practicing in the evening with John.

We'll have a bass player I think every day.

The catch is this: My plane comes in Sunday at noon. So let's plan on the workshop starting at 3, and then we'll do an evening workshop on Sunday. Cool? The rest of the time we'll start in the morning.

This could change, but at this point....

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building opens at 8 so practice time
9:30 until 11:30 or 12. workshop
12 lunch -
1 DVD, cd listening
1:30 mallet KAT when mario is here. otherwise it's practice time and listening time
2:30 until 4:30 or 5 workshop (bass player 4pm some days)
then we'll break for dinner and practicing,
6 until 7:30, bass player, jam or informal concert, maybe one night, we play duos and then get others to come up and play duos with us.
then practicing until midnight

I was playing around this morning after I heard a melody on NPR and it turned into this. An etude. The important part of the etude is the middle part the solo part. I didn't solo too long because I got to do a bunch of stuff. You guys should stretch out on it a little more and turn it into something.

I started thinking about all rock guitarists shredding away and getting jealous and this came out. Can you imagine, the hair, the guitars, the chicks. What was I thinking of when I picked up 4 mallets.

The PDF is below.

I posted about transcribing some MJQ and hearing mistakes in the recording and feeling a little funny about it. This is one of my favorite groups, but I was complaining a little bit!

My punishment was that the video - 'Modern Jazz Quartet, Django. True Jazz Inovators in Their Best Filmed Performances' came today. I'm in the middle of it now, all black and white so far. Between that and the looks of them this must be early on. They sound SO good. Milt sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting me in my place Almighty Amazon.com!

My first wife was an actress who did a lot of mime. This brought back some trauma. (Don't tell her I said that)