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In case you din't no, my spelling and gramar are prety bad. Most of the tim it's bcause, I'm tiping vury late at nite and I'm sew tred. I dn't prof reed enuf. I apologise. I get pretty eksited wen I do a lsson or atude.

I no it's a problm for some. fortunattally for me i hv friends on the sight that emale me all the time to say, yo you butter chick this out.

I wull trie to be more cairful.

I've been transcribing parts of a Chick solo. What's great about these programs is that some of Chick's licks are hard to play. Now I can slow everything down and play the line and then work up the speed.

I thought that might be a great way for some of you guys to learn hard tunes like Donna Lee.

My keyboard is set up to send instructions to Amazing Slow Downer, so play the lick and then hit a key and it speeds up. That's how we practice anyway right? Play it slow and then a little faster and then faster until we have it up to tempo.

OK, this is the morning after the incredible hectic workshop weekend.
Got out of bed 3.30 this morning as I promissed Tony and Sharon to get them to the Airport. After that back to sleep for a few hours and then off to the factory.

We're taking an easy day today, first cleaning up the shop after the weekends' hurricane ;-) that went thru and putting everything back on its place.

This beautiful song composed by my friend, Gabor Cseke.
Royal Castle of Gödöllő, 2008.

06.08.2007. Live recording, Bartok Radio, Hungary

Here's the PDF to go along with Dana's Lesson 'Easy Giant Steps Patterns Part 2'.

This is a wonderful video of a very young Gary Burton performing a solo piece. I think it's an original composition of Gary's. I'm sure he'll watch the video and comment here on it.

What was amazing to me is besides the haunting beauty of this piece was his technical facility at performing a rubato flowing piece like this. I think the dampening is incredible. Check it all the dampening he's doing with his palm.

--Tony Miceli

p.s. I forgot to give credit to John Daly who caught the video on tv and quickly recorded it knowing it would be valuable to the site.