I'm having my Musser bars sent to Bill Youhas to have them retuned to 440. I need to insure the bars when I ship them, but I have no idea what a set of bars is worth. Any ideas?
Hi There-
My M48 fiber cases are wedged in a dark corner of a shared basement, and I need to know their dimensions. Can anyone help me out here? (I think their Musser part number is M138)
thanks-
JAmes
Oh what a night!
Tonight I did something I never thought I would do: I drove 45 minutes to a jazz club to sit in with pro musicians I barely know who've been playing longer than I've been alive. Wow...I will admit I almost chickened out,…
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another friday, another version of that song. don´t think we just play only this tune but i love to compare different versions and different feelings of the same song. unfortunatley the mobile tel. of the guitar player ringed during…
I'm going to try to Livestream my gig this Sunday afternoon. We're playing as a trio (vibes, bass, drums) outdoors at a farmers market. I'm told they have very good 4G signal, so what the heck :-).
The stream will be at http://new.…
Hey everyone,
I just wanted to put in a good word about transcribing. If you asked me a year ago how I felt about transcribing, I would have said something like "Ugh...it's so hard and I am good at reading music, so why bother?". Well...I'…
Hi All,
Time to announce July's program. It opens with "America the Beautiful" by Bob Masteller, musician and owner of the popular Hilton Head Island Jazz Corner. (I still can't believe they've been open every night with jazz on their…
This is a series of performances about Tune of the Month – Solo vibes. You can criticize my performance or you can even use these posts as lessons since I play step by step the development of solo vibes according to what I practiced so far…
I got an email from a good friend of mine, containing sheetmusic and an MP3.
He's following Bass guitar (1th year) in the town's musicschool. And this was 1 of the excercises he needs to do.
He asked me if I can do something with it on the…
CHECK out who's coming to Delaware this summer! Our great an usual host Dave Friedman can't make it this time around. But look who I got to fill in!!!
Behn Gillece, Christos Rafalides and Friedmans other half Dave Samuels. And of course I…
Hi all,
As vibist we all have to solve the problem of not staying alone, mainly because our instrument is ignored by others musicians. We have to make things happen, we have no choice.
Here is what I did :
3 years ago I noticed a place…
HEllo everyone.. its been a bit since i posted on the site. Im excited to post this ....
My debut cd's is scheduled to release on Hammondbeat records as of june 21st. Preorders start June 6th, via emusic, amazon,and itunes. Anyone…
I'm sitting here practicing all these Parker tunes for an upcoming gig. I have dived back deep into Charlie Parker for the last month. It's amazing and practicing is so much fun.
I'm thinking about aim a lot. I'm trying to feel my arms…
Love for Sale. Most of my solo is on the 2nd link, although some of it got cut out.
-Drew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFAIlDO5164
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5BzOyLPFFM
Here are finally some videos from our winter workshop in Wuppertal - Germany. This one is the free ensemble made of all willing participants, and "directed" by our host Matthias Goebel.
Honestly I'm not much into 'free' music, but what…
I'm working on a new project with a couple of singers. My objectives are to:
1. Keep it simple - let the vocal have center stage.
2. Stay out of the singer's way.
You need to be continually aware of the singer's notes and try to either…
