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Now that we've added the glockenspiels to our product range, it is time to expand our diversity of ads.

My goal was to get at least some humor in the ad campaign and for the glockenspiel get rid of the dusty image, but keep the ad appealing to the market it is for. Also the eVibe now that it has been upgraded needed an ad.
With the acoustic models we still have the nice Joe Locke ad, so there is no need to change here.

I posted some stories about not so great students, recently. So of course I've been remembering things about my teaching and playing career. One aspect of my teaching and performing career was in prison. I was in prison(s) for about 8 years with my vibraphone!

Hmmm...

About a week ago, I thought oh man, what's tj up to. He seemed a little over the top and a little too gun ho.

You know as the cat who runs the site, you have to be really careful about things, what you say and what you do. Something as many of you know, I'm not good at. There's been a couple times when I've wanted to hit the block button on a user, or pull something down. I bet some of you have wanted to ban me!! Ha Ha, but you can't! :-)

I was just playing the piano and realized, I could not dampen single notes while holding the pedal down. But you CAN on a vibraphone! I probably would never have even tried, if I didn't play the vibes.

Barry

Well, when I make up these lessons, they usually leave me with a lot to practice.

I've been playing probably a few hundred versions of Invitation over the last few weeks. It's a difficult tune to play solo. And I'm busting my ass on it, big time!!! It's really inspiring to know that while I'm practicing all these other guys are practicing also. I know when I'm practicing in the evening that Barryk is over at his place doing the same thing! That's pretty cool.

No Vibes, but I have never heard anything like this before...

haha...just kidding!!

Ok, now serious.

For all of you just sitting around feeling sorry for yourself that you're not working hard enough according to Tony's standards... Let's do the following...

Record and post a version of you playing a duet with tony's 'Have You Met Miss Jones' duet file -> See the 'check this out link'.

Let's see how many of us post a recording by coming friday. That's a hard deadline! After that we can compare and discuss the tune and all relating or non-relating matters...

Ok, so who's in?

TJ

So I have been listening just recently to the new Christian McBride project, "Kind of Brown," featuring Warren Wolfe on vibes. I had heard about Mr. Wolfe through the grapevine, and then was duly impressed by some of his other recordings. I have to say that there is some very fine "kick-ass" playing on this CD, and I highly recommend it. Warren is already an important voice on the instrument. I do not know him at all, but I assume that a number of you do...I know he was up at Berklee.

I'm pretty amazed about the competition post. It really shows what we've all done here, how we've come together. For me it makes all the work worthwhile.

It's cool to see how open everyone is, from the veterans like Burton and all the way down to players just hitting the scene like Joe Doubleday.

This might be second to us all hanging out in a club somewhere and playing and hanging, but for me it's a good second!

Hi Tony!

I've been messing around with Lou Reed's song Perfect Day and tried to do a jazz interpretation of the harmonic progressions but I got in trouble with the Fmaj and Dm bar.

Am/D7/Gmaj/Cmaj would be a II/V/I/VI progression in Gmaj.

I tried to use a Fmaj scale for soloing over the next two bars F(maj)/Dm as this would be a I/VI progression in Fmaj but this does not sound good.

So maybe you can give me a tip which scale to use on the three bars F(maj)/Dm/E7?