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I think we should all feel really proud of ourselves. Look at the community we've created and look at all that's happening. I think we're all really doing something in a big way for the vibraphone. And this is cool. Yeah, I do the video and put up and lessons and set the page up, my partner handles all the programming aspects. But all that is useless without all of you guys. And we're coming up on 3 years and a lot of stuff is happening! This is great!

Just thought I'd mention that.

It was great to read what your gang wrote about what I said about not being able to teach Jazz. What I got back was not really what I was looking for. I only heard all the cliches. Listen to a lot of jazz-use your ears-know theory and chords - anybody can improvise which happens to be true . It may not be the most melodic improvisation but it is improvising. Even what you said

This time I hope to get some feed back for as you know Jazz has been my life. I will be 86 yrs old October 13th and I am still trying to find different things to play on songs that I have been playing all my life (Not Easy). Now what I am about to say will throw a curve to a lot of your members but I say this from experience and I will try to explain what I am about to say as best as I can.

"YOU CANNOT TEACH ANYBODY TO REALLY PLAY JAZZ!" What you can teach them is how to compose, write songs. Back in the 50's I had a student that played the Vibes pretty good and now wanted to play jazz.

Words being wholly inadequate
Music is the language of the spirit

Between the notes
The greatest impact
Reflection, time, color

Silence is played
Stewards of passion
The spirit alive and well

Words being wholly inadequate
Music is the language of the spirit

Hello All,
I wanted to post to say hello to everyone on that subscribes to this site. Quite frankly this is possible the coolest website I have ever come across. A sense of community is present and the information exchange is awesome. Above all, we can all help each other to become better players and teachers. I am happy there is a place for vibists to hang or just check out others work.

All the Best to you and yours,

Timothy

Hi All,

Poking around here as I've been working on the Vibesworkshop on Roku app, I discovered an interesting statistic -- as of this morning (2010-May-17), there have been 658 videos posted here. By access level there are:

• 18 Anonymous
• 462 Members
• 178 Subscribers Only

Jeesh! What a resource!

Tom P.

Man, there are so many of us here now. I keep think of ways for us all to work and grow together.

So here's my pitch: The Summer of 2010 will be 'The Summer of Vibes'. Let's play for each other this summer. Let's play little concerts for each other pros and amateurs!

To me a concert has a few things to it. It usually has some talking or announcing and has more than one tune.

So let's say that if you post a recording where you are talking about the piece and it's more than one piece that it's a concert.

I want to acknowledge the life of a teacher and friend who passed away suddenly at the age of 61 last week Saturday May 8, 2010.

I started takeing drum lessons from Terry when I was 7 yrs. old. I continued with him until I was 15 yrs old and had a friendship with him through out my life. Terry was an excellent teacher, always encouraging, supportive and gave me a good reality check a couple of times when I needed it. He was never demeaning, just a regular guy, and a very nice and caring one at that.

Hey Guys,

As I've been away most of the time lately I thought I'd give an update on what I'm busy with, and that's the reason that I'm not online much.

So I had two really great gigs last couple of weeks. One was with a trio(vb-bs-git). A great bass anf guitar player from amsterdam. We had a real nice gig and I did record some stuff. But it needs some editing, so I'll post that when I have time.

Well I finished my little series on the melodic minor scale. I think I'm going to do one on the harmonic minor also. Although I need to study that one first a little more.

Behn is coming over Wednesday to shoot more lessons and I have some more planned as well.

I want to get into writing some more serious etudes, so I'm thinking about that as well. I'm just not sure whether to write the etude over the changes to a tune or make it up all new.

Just letting everyone know that more is on the way.