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So I see a bunch of University Professors here and some have been hanging out quite a bit.

I would love to try some stuff with all this technology with your percussion department. I think we're ready to design an online jazz course, we can certainly do workshops.

In fact if a few of you 'guys' wanted to test things out, we could meet online and I could show some stuff. I've been using Skype and Ichat to teach lessons all over the world, and so far so good! There's also a few other sites which deliver video and have chat rooms.

I decided to do a series of analysis of tunes.

I decided to call this series 'Pimp My Tune', and I think you could definitely call this 'Ghetto Analysis'. I did go to college, but I was interested in playing and learning off the street. What was great about that was I got a lot of interesting perspectives on tunes and harmony, from some great musicians. It was amazing that in school everything was made to seem difficult and on the street everything was made to seem easy. At least that's how I perceived it all.

Here's Joe's performance of 'She's Always a Woman to Me'. Subscribe and check him out talking about the piece!

Here's a great Friedman Vid. Dave wrote the book 'Dampening and Pedaling'. He's one of the major players on the scene and has a very very unique sound on the instrument. I have always totally admired his lines, his comping, geez (to use a palin term) his playing!!!

What's extra great about this vid is there's no drums, you can really here him clearly and hear him comp rhythmically. Really cool stuff!

http://www.steveyeager.com/Home.html Says it all. Check him out, I think you'll love Steve's playing and if you haven't heard him already, this should be a treat. Also a real nice person and we'd love to hear from him at www.vibesworkshop.com

check out samples at his web site and then... (buy something)

Trying to regulate email from the site is pretty tough. So here are some options.

Click on 'my account' under the menu that's under your login name on the left side of the page and then click on MANAGE MY SUBSCRIPTIONS.

There you'll see 3 (at the time of this writing) newsletters. One if the VIBES NEWSLETTER, that one won't come more than once of twice a month to your inbox. So if you just want us to check in once in a while check that newsletter.

The TELL ME EVERYTHING newsletter. Well, you get it, right? That one will go more frequently.

Yikes!

Joe practicing at home. Wow!

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I always have this thing. When I see vibe players play something that I think is really great, I want to try it myself. Some of the pieces up here that I've played were inspired that way. I don't do this as a competitive thing. At least not totally, mostly I do it to learn, to compare. What did I do and what did they do. What can I learn from them and do better. I guess that's how you study right? Your teacher plays something and you try to do your version and sound as good if not better.

So I'm hanging online with Patty via google talk and we were talking about Mike Pinto, so i figured I'd post the vid here. I think he sounds great, and his approach is a little different. He uses those Milt mallets but holds 3 I think most of the time. [I think.] He'll probably see this and maybe he can comment on it. Just goes to show you when it comes to grips. I like his lines so who cares about the rest.