Oh man... Beautiful!!!

Check these guys out if you're around. Should be great. They are incredible musicians. Just going to be EVI and Sax for this.

Concert will be live and online here:

www.justin.tv/studymusiconline

Made you look.

The point I wanted to bring up is how do we make a living on this instrument? Who out there has made a living playing the vibes? Or was making a living and then got a 'real' job (as my mother used to say). What are your thoughts?

What are some ideas for graduating percussionists who really want to make a living out of playing jazz?? It is almost graduation time?

Have I brought this up already?

I was just thinking about this, on another post, talking about swinging.

A great musician told me, 'The only people who really know if you're a great player is everyone else but you. It's not your decision to make that'.

I play so often and am just not sure if I played a good solo or not, I try not to be judgemental.... I try. So many times I think I sucked and others including the band thought the opposite. Were they being nice to me? Or am I wrong.

I love this. Check out how the guitar player is comping and imagine comping like that behind someones solo. I'm working with a great latin percussionist so I'm learning a ton about the music (again). I've been checking out Changui music which I think means "beginning". Am I right? Any latinos out there?

I just think here's another way to comp. Just a single line.

I got this link on FB from Canadian vibist Robert Pelletier and it reminded me so much of Joe Porter's tambourine. Sorry explanations are in French as it's from a musical program in France with aim of making accessible and fun to all classical and jazz music.

The image/sound sync is not good either, but maybe the images speak enough by themselves and show the instrument functionning quite closely.

- Around 4"30 there's a first demo about the cymbals.
- Around 5"51 Carlo shows how he changes the pitch of the tambourine by unbending the skin.

I play a lot of Bach on my own, but I hardly ever perform it. I decided to put some out there to force myself to really work something up. I am constantly amazed by this music and how every voice is so interesting. Hopefully I did it justice.

Here is a vibe player(Thomas Dobler)who uses several piano licks on vibes.
There are some interesting things happening here I think.

I'm sure the pros will have more insightful comments.

-Todd