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Hi Folks,
Haven't been as active as I'd like to have been this summer, but wanted to take a minute to write a short blog. I don't always feel efficient in my practice sessions, but just had a nice one today and thought I'd talk about what seemed to work for me this time:

My opinion: You're never done learning tunes. I used to know a lot more than I do now when I was doing more standards gigs. I feel that the ones I know know I'm much deeper on though. I always learn more about music by learning a new tune.

Here's what I did this morning to work on a new tune:

Had a fun time working on this solo vibraphone piece. Exploring feathering the pedal to articulate diminuendos.. As well as an ongoing quest: accuracy, phrasing, better groove/feel.

Superb playing, IMHO
There's a beautiful Tchaikovsky piece too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhHnVWL0GY4
and ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wvMTDs5YGQ

Hi,
hope youe like it.

Visit my channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuhxj5oRhQpaeRCXB5oBqA

:-)

Stefan

Hey All,
September is coming up fast. Some highlights of the September show:
Something old - Red Norvo and "September Song"
Something new - Joe Locke, from his new Love Is A Pendulum, "For Jesse Mountain"
Something blue - Behn Gillece on Ensemble Novo's CD Blue Night playing "Church Is Where You Are."
Nothing borrowed. Hey, it's not a wedding!
And Tony playing "I Loves You Porgy" from Looking East. For no reason at all, except that it's one of the best renditions of that tune I've ever heard.
Lots more
September airs on the 6th and 9th, 8:00 and 4:00pm eastern.

Revisiting an original composition that I wrote back in 2008. A copy of the lead sheet can be downloaded from my website.

Hello vibes workshop, I hope everyone is having a great summer!

Duo playing is one of my favorite configurations. I wanted to share with you a video from my duet project with guitarist Brad Shepik.

This particular one is a live studio footage of us recording one of the tunes from our debut cd, "Flower Starter", released this summer. CD's and digital are available over at www.beckhamshepik.com and also at CDBaby.com.

Thanks, hope you enjoy it.
Tom Beckham

Hi Folks,
Realizing that my Malletkat rig is never gonna get through TSA security and am wondering in anyone in the Los Angeles area has a malletkat I could borrow for a week for a few gigs out there?

Thanks!
-Tyler

We are updating the site. Well we've (Stephen) been updating it for 2 years. The software upgrade from 6 to 7 is so dramatically different we've had to rewrite code (well Stephen does) and sort of work from the ground up. It's soooo much work, it's driving me crazy.

I'm a little light on my lessons for the site and this is partly why. Stephen has written a few thousand lines of code JUST to move the database. Drupal (software) is a drag.

It's really come close to giving up a couple times, but we're (he's) still at it.