haha...just kidding!!
Ok, now serious.
For all of you just sitting around feeling sorry for yourself that you're not working hard enough according to Tony's standards... Let's do the following...
Record and post a version of you playing a…
Hi guys,
Here's a clip of Philippe Mace on marimba and me on vibes from the Paris performance on May 7th. We're playing one of my tunes titled Hope. You can view or download Hope here: http://www.edsaindon.com/images/pdf/hope.pdf
There's a…
This is a funny one.
Just a side note.
I talk with Mike about once a week, and I tell you he's a great guy and a very kind soul. There are many Mike Balter stories about great acts of kindness. I feel really lucky to know him and hang…
I was listening to Pandora.com and heard Bobby Hutcherson play "My Foolish Heart". Nice. I went right to Amazon and downloaded it. I practiced it over the past couple of nights and recorded it. Still needs work, but I felt like posting…
They are the Dodo's and they have vibes in their band.
And btw the Stevens grip will be the grip of the future.
We can all rest now. It's over. It will stop hurting soon and we will be able to hold our heads up high and proclaim 'I PLAY…
Well, when I make up these lessons, they usually leave me with a lot to practice.
I've been playing probably a few hundred versions of Invitation over the last few weeks. It's a difficult tune to play solo. And I'm busting my ass on it,…
Here is another video of Manhattan Vibes. I really love this intro he plays on All the Things. Well it's actually a really quick solo version of he whole tune in 7/8.
The rest of the video is more of a compilation of different parts of…
I found this file from a few months ago. I was talking to a student about practicing but not practicing. Made me think of our talk here on the site about practicing.
I will just play tunes to work on anything, technical stuff, form stuff…
As some of you know, I work in an association for blind peole. Our neighbour is a school for blind teenagers where I sometimes go to attend "lunch break gigs". So I was really happy when Steve and Gary started talking about blind mallet…
If I had to sum this lesson up in one sentence: Play the melody in all keys.
Also in a lesson, I would ask you to tell me things about the melody. I do some of that here in this lesson.
Here is a version of Stella I found in my itunes. NO, it's not me playing, it's Tony ofcourse!
Man another amazing version. I don't think this is on the site here yet, and I hope you don't mind me posting this, Tony?
I think it's great!…
Here's a good performance of David Friedman's new etude 'Texas Hoedown'.
I'll buy and send a copy to the first two people who want it and agree to learn it and post a video within 2 months of their performance. (Must be a subscriber)
When you practice part 2 of the Invitation lesson, you're also working on:
Invitation, Cherokee, Laura, Speak Low (sort of), Minority.... can you think of any others?
Here's some thoughts on chord-melodies. I was talking about these in a lesson and thought I'd pass them on to you.
The challenge is for any person who's new to chord-melodies to record and post one.
I'll also post some writting examples…
Hi there,
I'm practicing the Blues Etude (link below) but I have a problem to analyze bar 35. The chord on beat 4 is a bII9, a substitute dominant, right? But what function is a f d bflat a c on beat 1 - 3 in measure 35? Any help, please?…
A cliché Tony pointed out inspired me on this post: "Accordion is old fashion. People make easily fun of it".
Like most people, I used to think so… up to the day I met some French masters. With Gary we talked about Astor Piazzola and…
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