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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone had to deal with blisters. Once in a while I get a blister on the index finger of my right hand because of the rubbing of the mallet against my finger.

My main problem: sweaty hands + friction + Burton grip = blister.

I know callosity is common for conga players and that they use some kind of tape to protect their fingers and hands.
Usually I apply a Compeed blister plaster for prevention. Unfortunately I was too late this time so I have to deal with that lump on my finger again.

I was just thinking. (That's where my dad would say 'How did it feel?'.

I spent last night jamming with a bass player. We took some tunes got together and put them through a bunch of keys. I said to him I liked doing this with 'just the 2 of us' because if there were other players they'd be off to the side playing the new keys while I was soloing.

And then bam!!! Why not do this live, and you guys play along. You won't bother me, because I can't here you. We'd pick the songs and you guys would play along. Play the root of the chords, play the chords, play whatever you want.

(We've been talking about Theo Milkov on the site. Here is his teacher performing. - tony miceli)

I thought this was neat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ElNEuV2z4k

Barry

All about the bars

Ok, guys after all you guys harrassing me about this here it finally is, my blog about Mike Mainieri...

Ok, so the first views of the master where at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam. A very nice jazzclub in Amsterdam. He was playing with a dutch trio led by Marnix Busstra(on Guitar) together with Eric van der Westen on Bass and Pieter Bast on Drums. A very good trio, which I had never seen before.
The concert was also the release of the cd they just recorded. They have recorded before in a more electrical setting, but this cd is just acoustic trio with Mike on Vibes.

Hey Everybody,

Marie has been hagging me to blog about the two times a have seen Mike Mainieri play in the last week. But I've been fed up with some really complicated personal stuff... Well actually that has been going on for a year now, but it's really complicated, but anyway the bottom line is I have to move soon and have to put a lot of time into our new house and also I have a pretty good gig coming up in a theater show that I'm preparing fo, some pretty advanced classical stuff(I'll post about that too in a while...)....

Trying to sort some stuff out, but I have some things in mind over the xmas break. I'm finished teaching at school (Univ of the Arts) and have a month off.

I'd like to get on line a lot over the month and hang out with subscribers. Maybe Piper and Saindon and Joe will join me for some? That's in the works. Just have to get my schedule together.

I've asked Patty Franceschy to do some lessons during these meet ups with the stevens grip.
I even asked Harvey Price who just wrote a book of Milt transcriptions to do some mini Milt lessons!

Hi everyone, feel free to check out my website if you get a chance. www.behngillecejazz.com I plan to add some more pics and stuff, but if anyone has any other suggestions, that would be great. Thanks.

Behn