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Here's a version of the Monk tune 4 in 1. I'm going to write up a chord melody etude of what I play on the head.
12 years 8 months ago - 22 comments
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Jeez, probably not the kind of drummer we want on a jazz gig? Did I post this already?
14 years 2 months ago - 7 comments
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Hi everyone, Here's an article which will be in the upcoming July issue of the Percussive Arts Society magazine Percussive Notes. The article is titled "The Healing" and details the recording session of Depth of Emotion which featured…
12 years 8 months ago - 6 comments
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My first wife was an actress who did a lot of mime. This brought back some trauma. (Don't tell her I said that)
14 years 2 months ago - 5 comments
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Here's the website. No Content is added yet, I just bought the domain, made the layout, set up the buttons so far. http://www.joeporteronline.com/ Tell me what you think, Joe
14 years 2 months ago - 9 comments
Pt. 8 - Stella
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This lesson talks about 4 mallet chord tone solos over Stella. This is a great way to work on your chords and voicings.
14 years 2 months ago - 2 comments
Pt. 5 - Stella
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Creating lines over Stella.
13 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
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So I'm transcribing some MJQ. I remember (I think) Gary Burton talked about them not being good readers. Ok. I'm taking down the tune 'Don't Stop This Train'. It's a sort of fugue. Well I've found 2 mistakes and I think they cut out a John…
14 years 2 months ago - 10 comments
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I've been emailing with magicescalator and talking with him. We were talking about how he came to the instrument and more. So I thought we'd do a Who Is so you guys could meet him. magicescalator, just add a new comment here and tell about…
14 years 2 months ago - 5 comments
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I gave a lesson earlier today to my student Chris (who just joined the website!) on reading out of the Omni book. One of the things I was trying to get him to do was to keep going no matter what happens. Tony's post on Chi Chi got me…
12 years 10 months ago - 14 comments
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I've been working on this tune for a couple days. Last night I had a chance to play it on a gig. I decided to go ahead to record and then post it to see what kind of feedback y'all might send my direction. I hope you all dig it!
12 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
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Here's a very very quick lesson. Just winding up the night here. Was practicing for a while working out some stuff. The point of this lesson: Don't think twice about figuring out ways to start a solo, or some things you might try and play…
13 years 4 months ago - 1 comments
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This is a live recording from my junior recital at the University of Lethbridge. The technique that i've based my playing from is from several youtube masters playing riq. I would use a video slow downer to study there technique and then…
12 years 9 months ago - 1 comments
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Here's a quick test of the Tony Miceli 46R mallets. I just them 5 minutes ago and thought I should post. I love these mallets. Brings out the highs, but not overbearing. Feel is great. Works with my light touch. Barry
14 years 2 months ago - 9 comments
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Killer band. I want to gig with 4 percussionists!
14 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
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Dana and I have been talking about chordal playing. Listen to this. See if you can listen to it and see that conceptually the way Bill Evans is playing would totally lend itself to the vibes. Man he's got 10 fingers but he's not using all…
14 years 2 months ago - 3 comments
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Joe Locke showed me a cool scale that Olivier Messiaen used to write with. I found out later that it's a MOLT (Modes of Limited Transposition), which is pretty interesting. A major scale transposes into 7 variations and a diminished scale…
14 years 2 months ago - 6 comments
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Get funky with your bad self. Ok Voyeurs, I posted part of my practice mp3. I'll turn the recorder on and just mess around with an idea and then listen back. So mistakes and imperfections, here's what I do, maybe it will get some of you…
13 years 4 months ago - 9 comments
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See if you can cop this
14 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
Jazz Robots
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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c ThreatDown - Military Food Police, Jazz Robots & Pretty Girls<a> www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Fox News
14 years 2 months ago - 2 comments
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14 years 2 months ago - 2 comments
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I took down my Chi Chi study, because it's flawed!!!! I just learned the head yesterday and threw the changes underneath that seemed to fit in my mind. but i should have listened to the whole thing, especially if i was going to do a…
14 years 2 months ago - 10 comments
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13 years 8 months ago - 3 comments
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Hey guys, here is a lesson on playing upper structure triads on "My One and Only love". Using these triads will show how easy it is to think about upper structures of harmony. I also demonstrates a way of thinking about chords and triads…
14 years 2 months ago - 3 comments
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Hey we're going to have an open house August 5th at the workshop at the University of Delaware. It will start at 2 and go untiil about 8 or 9. You can listen to a David Friedman workshop and then we'll have a little performance later in…
14 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
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