Vibraphone

A short clip of some post-Thanksgiving practice on the Fats Waller classic Ain't Misbehavin'

A short clip of some post-Thanksgiving practice on Autumn Leaves

If you're interested let me know. The price will be incredible. Only inquire if you're very serious about it.

I want to get this in the hands of a player.

Gary Burton's Jazz Improvisation Course

Over the past five weeks, I've been enrolled in Gary Burton's online jazz improvisation course at https://www.coursera.org/. Coursera is a website that offers free online courses in a variety of subjects. I really enjoyed the course and was able to relate a lot of the assignments to lessons here on VWS, so I asked Tony if I could put up a review. Enjoy!

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Did I post this already?

I'm editing Christos' lesson getting them ready to go online. I hate editing video, btw. It's not fun for me, I'm not a video guy and am not dying to make money at shooting video and editing it and making it into a work of art! It's funny because everything I do is a means to an end. The end is playing my instrument. That's the most important thing in my life. Absolutely the most important thing.

Here's a great lesson on learning a tune via sheet music. The music is attached.

Do you learn melodies like this? Notice how much fun he has playing the melody!