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Our next Pop Up Class is this Wednesday and we will talk about the Diminished Scale.

This ties in with our last class which was on "Have You Met Miss Jones". All the dominant chords in this tune are 13 b9 chords. That's the diminished scale. So we will talk about this this week and then the following week we will do an online performance where we will each try our hand at "Miss Jones"!

If you want to attend the class make sure you are a paying subscriber and email me me your user name and your email address (Which of course is in the email heading!)

The tool I used for this (Insight) is part of Izotope's mastering suite of software. This is not its normal use, but it provides a nice visualization of acoustic energy in real time across the frequency spectrum. Something went awry with the way that Quicktime did the screen capture, so by the end of the video, the waveforms are appearing significantly later and out of sync with the sound, but you will be able to still associate them and see the differing harmonic content. The frequency is represented along the bottom of the graph.

I am always asked how good or bad my € 100 DIY-pickup-system is.
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This question is difficult to answer, since a lot has to do with personal listening impression and personal preferences. I now had the opportunity to record my playing simultaneously with two computers. The recordings were made with the freeware audacity on the computer.

The only change I made to the recorded signals is that I normalized all levels equally to -5 dB to make the sound pressure comparable.

A must watch.

Great Episode!!!

Our pop-up class for VW subscribers will take place June 3rd - 2pm EDT

We will study 'Have You Met Miss Jones'.

The follow up class we will stream and some of you guys will play the tune in 'Virtual Public'.

If you don't do that I would like for you to record something and post it on Vibesworkshop. Just to make us do a final goal!

You have to be a subscriber to take this class.

To register just click here and send me an email.

This is a shortened version of David F's beautiful arrangement (I left out his solo in the middle). My goal was to have it sing with expression and still stay in time. I wanted a faster tempo, but this was what I could manage for now. It's been a fabulous lesson in pedaling/dampening and making good use of all 4 sticks. I studied David's Youtube video quite a bit in the process of memorizing it phrase by phrase.

Been working on stride vibes and watching Tony's videos from the beginning of the site. If anyone has any comments, let me know!