jonathan,
just got a gig thursday, but i'm done at seven should be home by 9. is that too late?
i'm actually working every night this week.
if thursday falls apart then i think unless you have daytimes free, we're into next week.
what's…
I always have this thing. When I see vibe players play something that I think is really great, I want to try it myself. Some of the pieces up here that I've played were inspired that way. I don't do this as a competitive thing. At least…
I have been working on Tony's Vince Guaraldi etude and was reminded that Christmas Time is (almost) Here (http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Brown-Christmas-Vince-Guaraldi/dp/B000ICL…) and and would need a couple months to prepare some tunes.…
Hi!
For many years I am studying a guitar instruction book. This ia a sample of an advanced comping for guitar over a Bb-blues .
The author says that "every soloist will be gratful for this kind of comping" so I recorded the guitar for…
I have been working hard on this Etude but I have not been able to get through it solo without mistakes. I am trying to memorize it though. I decided to use Band-in-a-Box to cover my mistakes. I didn't really learn the 2nd part of the…
What a great day. I picked up Joe Locke early today we had lunch and talked about stuff then picked up Patricia Franceschy and turned on the cams.
Joe is a wealth of information and a very courageous vibe player. Ask to him play and he'll…
yo,
you have more privileges than any other subscriber. but you're a lot of fun to have on the site. if you want to meet live again, let me know. you should come in one day for a lesson. all that's on me.
you can upload video right to the…
Hey Tony,
This is a recording of Rainbow I made this morning while practicing that includes the turnaround and some more ideas related to the inner lines we discussed before.
I'm still working on it in G so this one is in Eb.
Sidenote: I'…
Thank you Tony for putting this up.
Thank you J M Piper for your reading patterns. (I'm still on board!)
And thanks to everyone else who has contributed.
This is a great site, from which I've already learned a lot.
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Hey everyone.... This is my first blog on Tony's site and wow what an honor to be in such company as Tony, John, so many heavy hitters... very nice
Anyways. in the past couple months my life has been so hectic working working working that…
Hey Tony,
I told you about the theater show I'm gonna do from January untill april, right?
Anyway, I got all the music and it's about 42 pages of music that I have to play by heart... and it's drums, Vibes AND marimba. The composer is…
Recording of today's sight reading etude with the pedal down throughout using dampening.
Link to etude: http://www.vibesworkshop.com/story/sight-reading-exercise-each-day-shap…
Here is a step by step video series showing how to build the MBrace.
Anyone wishing to build a pair of MBraces should go to www.johnmarkpiper.com to purchase the complete MBrace plans ($15.00). The plans include instructions and drawings…
Here's a tough mental challenge.
EACH MEASURE is a mental exercise that becomes an ear stretcher as well. I find this exercise very difficult and if you don't.... then speed it up. This is what I started out doing when I wrote "The Shapes…