Dear all!

Like always I have been closely following what is going on on the site and I enjoyed many many things! Tony and all of you are doing an excellent job!

But one thing that kind of bothers me is that there is not so much material for beginners/hobbyists like me.

I am aware that I belong to a probably very small group of people who is 35, started vibes about 2 years ago, has a fulltime day job and has an average practice time of 10 minutes per day.

Gary's thoughts and blogs.

Photo's from Gary's tavels.

Here are the links to lessons that Gary shot and posted on the site for us:

Stories from Gary's travels and career on the vibraphone: awesome!

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Gary Burton is giving a huge contribution to the site. You should find everything about him in those sections: awesome stories, great photos, thoughts and discussions, lessons and tributes from us fans. Enjoy! :o)

Here's all the lessons and performances of Ed Saindon's tune 'Life's Blessings.

We spent the month of March studying Ed's tune and we had a blast. Check out all the comments. There's a lot of valuable information here.

Hi Everyone,

I've attached a chart I made of the appropriate tensions for each chord in Life's Blessing. Ed checked it out for me and made the necessary corrections and I thought this could be of use to anyone working on the tune. The tensions can be used either in voicings for comping or lines while soloing. Good luck everyone!

Jon

Here are seven choruses of improvisation on the progression of Life's Blessing.

Again, as I mentioned in the other video playing the melody, the left hand is functioning as accompaniment as well as helping out the right hand to execute lines.

Try to fill out the 8th notes between both hands as opposed to trying to carry everything with the right hand. Also, try to keep the left hand moving. Try to keep changing the spreads of the mallets in each hand as much as possible. For example, in left hand, you can play a whole step and then invert that interval to play a 7th.