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Does anyone have any advice for publishing your original music? I've been doing a fair amount of composing lately for a CD project I'm working on, and I was wondering how the process works, is it worth doing, etc.

A little while ago Mike Pinto mentioned the benefits of publishing your tunes and I looked into the company he's with, but they seem to require more stature in the industry than I have. Does anyone have suggestions that will work for people with day jobs?

Any advice appreciated :-). Thanks in advance.

Tom P.

So I think a bunch of us should go nuts and make a commitment to rhythm changes.

If there was a good commitment we could even plan some things. Maybe get some guys over here and do a vibe hang where we play ONLY rhythm changes or variants of!!!

How about one head many keys every 4 days!

Lots of ideas. Who would practice the crap out of rhythm changes???

It's this time of the year again! Its the end of the semester and I'm working lots of gigs. That spells chaos for me!! This is a crazy time, and I can't wait for it to end, so I have lots of time to practice and hang out on the site. I have lots of ideas for rhythm changes lessons, so I'm eager for all this to end!!!!

I am keeping an eye on things and hanging out a bit but I'll be back in full strength in about a week!!!!!

Man, it's the end of the semester here. I'm working my ass off between gigs, students, classes and setting up my summer.

Musicians HAVE to think at least one season ahead. It's spring and if it isn't happening it probably won't. Get to summer. I bet the heavy cats are thinking 2 seasons or a year ahead. OK.

Anyway, let me officially announce we are working on Rhythm changes now. This is our tune of the month, officially.

So, why don't you guys blog about rhythm changes. What do you want to know? What do you think about??

See what's going on inside a resonator.

I stumbled on this video. It demonstrates standing waves inside a tube closed at one end, just like vibraphone resonators.

There is a speaker on one end, connected to a tone generator (single frequency). The tube has holes along its length. Flamable gas flows through the tube. The holes are lit. The flame height is proportional to the air pressure at different locations inside the resonator.

The interesting part starts at 3:33.

Just a heads up.

We have the PA chapter Day of Percussion coming up.

https://www.facebook.com/events/341967152509041/

all the info Is above on Facebook.

Hey all,

Here is the registration for Delaware. Flyers are going out this week. Then it becomes first come first serve since all this is done electronically. If you're thinking of coming, now is the time.

Sounds like it's going to be a great week. Mario from Alternate Mode has a lot of great players coming in including Samuels.

We have Friedman coming in (hoping for a Double Image concert) and i think a few other players. So this will be a great week.

Been using the malletkat for a new project of mine. Here's a short clip from a new tune entitled "Cogs."
This music will be recorded soon and the CD should be out by the end of the year. I'm running the Kat through a Nord Electro rack module, in case anyone was wondering...

-Tyler

Just blowin' on a blues of mine entitled "Hemming and Hawing"
This is from a gig I did out in LA a couple years ago.
-Tyler