Here's our new TOTM, Satin Doll.

Hey,
I had this amazing skype lessons with Carolyn and Badu. The great thing about it is that people from all over the world can comunicate and share their interests and questions. Ofcorse Tony is a great teacher since he sees everyone as a different personality. Having that in mind it not just a chat but a real expirience of practising and learning. He also put assigments to each one. I have to practise How deep in 12 keys. It really gives you a motive to learn and practise more and more stuff.

Hallo everyone, thank you for such great time last week. You filled me up with soul, spirit, music ,... .I met so many wonderful persons and they all play vibes!!!! It was a pleasure to be your host and I hope you had a good time. I want to share video of my trio-concert from frieday with you. Have fun, I had a lot!!! looking forward to meet you all again, Matthias.

http://youtu.be/yI29QyxWzEU

In one of the classes that gave David Friedman, taught us an a very good exercise to improve the tempo. The exercise is record yourself, a simple melody, solo or comping and after trying to play up the recording!! It seems simple, but it's hard!

Very good exercise!!

Hi guys,
Some years ago I had in my hands during a couple of hours a study book from the great guitarist Ted Greene. I copied quickly the notes of one of the exercises, and I re-discovered it yesterday when having a look on my old paper books....
It is based on chords with tonic, third and 7th only(no 5th). It makes sound great the harmony, makes the brain work and teach nicely how to deal with voicings. Notice how the third of a chord becomes the 7th of the following one, etc...

Here you go Carolyn!

This is another of Chick Corea's great compositions. I'm sure Gary and Chick have recorded it but I don't know which CD it might be on.

The full version of the tune has an interlude section too, but I didn't include that for this recording.

Hey everyone,

I had the great opportunity to do a Skype lesson with Tony, Dimitris, and Denis today (who knew Babu's real name was Denis...learn something new everyday!). Denis mentioned a lot of the reasons why it was cool in his post, but I want to highlight some things:

1) You don't need a camera on your computer to participate. If you only have a microphone on your computer, that's totally okay!

Hello,

It was (I think) more then 5 years ago since I listened to this song, but last week I put it on, and kept thinking : "this vibes score sounds do-able for me". So I listened a couple of times to find out what the vibes exactly do, and then try to copy it. Here is the result.
Sometimes the original vibes interfere with my playing (or vice versa :-) ) in this recording. But I can't hit the bars at the EXACT same moment as they did when recording this. But overall I was happy with this.

You can hear that my playing is not fluid enough, but I hope you like it.
Greetings,