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Final Details for Philly Workshop

Time

Where: 250 South Broad Street Room 604 (but double check with the guard)
My cell number is: two six seven nine seven three seven nine three eight

Take My Cell Number With You!

Watch the vibe hang Sunday 3pm-5pm (East Coast time). All the attendees will play plus Joe, Tony, Dana, Mike and Probably Randy and I think Behn might even stop by!

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We are having a great time at the workshop!! Watch us today at 3pm Eastern U.S. time.

Etude Based on Chords To Blue Bossa - All Instruments

John Daly who is one of my online students from Ireland (and a great drummer) asked me to write an etude based on what we were talking about in our lesson.

This etude has several parts to it. First there's the melody. The head at the beginning is a chord melody and the head at the end is more a melody accompanied by a line.

The solo section starts off as a chord melody solo. The second chorus, a very simple accompanyment with a line and the 3rd chorus is just a line.

In a way you start off with chords and by the end of the tune, you are playing just a line.

Breaking Strings

So I've played for a few years and never had a problem breaking strings (although I've only been doing professional gigs for about 8 months). I got a set of Albrights recently and have broken the string on the vibes 3 times in the past month. I had a gig last night where we played 4 sets and I was using a set of med soft albrights. they are pretty soft so I have to hammer the notes out a bit, but not ridiculously. During the second set I realized that the string between my F# and Ab was near failure.

The Depth of Info here!

I'm looking through some of these posts, looking at the replies, seeing the depth of some of these discussions and just flipping out.

Here we're talking about Musser models and there's all this feedback and then Gary chimes in with an in depth reply about the M-55 and the M-48. This is incredible!

I was just excited about all that and thought I would post my excitement.