The Philly workshop was amazing! The idea of traveling to a new city and spending 2 days in a room with 10 – 12 people I had never met before on top of not really knowing anything about playing jazz in the traditional sense made me a little nervous. Then getting up in front of really heavy players to show off my beginner chops scared me to death. However, I have to say I felt so welcomed and supported the entire time I was there. It was truly an amazing experience. My highlight was hearing Joe talk about the inspiration for his tune, Verrazano Moon.

hi all .....

its been a while since ive been on the site. The roots Reggae band that im playing Keyboards in has been travel almost every weekend. We are also goin to be backing " Studio one jamaician reggae legend NORMA FRASER, soon.

Since my wife and i moved down to southern oregon. my musical adventures have been primarily as a keyboardist .. playing B3, clav and other sounds ....also expanding into the use of my laptop on stage via reason 4 for some sampling and LIVE Dubbing....

Over the last few days, Tony and I have exchanged several emails discussing several CD’s we both grew up with, including two of Gary’s that are currently out of print – Easy As Pie and Picture This. And as one might imagine, one idea leads to another and eventually there are a bunch of theories that beg for clarification. Among those are the inner workings of ECM Records.

Final Lesson on A Train. Just put it all together!

There's an Easter egg in this lesson.

Chords > Scales > Lines

That's the plan for this lesson. Get some clear lines happening that are based on the scales that are based on the chords.

"Within a Page" is one of my favorites. I wrote it while working on a page out of my sight reading book called "Shapes and Patterns of Music". The title comes after spending weeks on a single line trying to develop it into a song. When I finally came up with a "song" (that I really love), I realized that there was SO MUCH music and work that went into this small page of music. So I titled it "Within A Page". After coming up with the arrangement for solo vibes, I thought I'd offer it along with a lesson on how to play it. So, here it is in PDF download form. I hope you enjoy it.

This attachment on "Tritone Substitutions" goes along with Tony's lesson on "Pivot Chords".

Here's both parts of a duet on 'Bye Bye Blackbird'.

The mp3 with only one part is listed below. I like the melody at the end of this piece where I play octaves but they're separated by an octave. Make sense? What do you call an octave that's 2 octaves apart? I don't know!

yo,

we didn't get too much done this summer. that's cool as long as you're really ready to work hard now.

make sure you have the friedman book and get the bach sonatas and partidas for violin as well.

so just bring them to the first lesson so we don't waste any time.

cool?

cu
tony

Here's a podcast I did a while ago for a vibe camp (I think). I talk about transposing Dolphin Dance. Get the music out and follow along.