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In the book 'This is Your Brain on Music', I'm reading about what it means to be an expert. Many scientists use the 10,000 hour theory. That is generally speaking to become an expert at anything you have to spend 10,000 hours working on it. That translates to 3 hours a day for about 10 years.

I thought this was interesting because at least this gives us an idea about practicing in a general sense. He brings up things like Mozart writing a symphony at age eight and argues that you don't have to be an expert to write a symphony.

Vibraman found this vid and did a web link to it. I wanted to get the vid right here and put it in our vibe players section.

Check out Lars Erstrand. He sounds so good, I think.

Great find Vibraman!

Oh man… It finally happened: no more need to practice, any technique, in any key. No more pain in wristles, or bleeding fingers. No more white nights in your basement...

You can all sleep in peace: here is the real future of all percussionists… :o)

- M

HELLO EVERYBODY.I RECENTLY PLAYED IN A JAZZ FESTIVAL IN GREECE AND I THOUGHT IT'S GOOD TO POST 3 PIECES.I KNOW THERE ARE MISTAKES AND WE LOST THE TIMING BETWEEN THE SAX PLAYER AND ME AND THE DRUMMER.ANYWAY IT IS NOT PERFECT...THE CONCERT WAS DUET VIBES-SAX AND THE DRUMS JAMS WITH US.I AM WAITING YOUR COMMENTS.

I spent the night playing through the first chorus of his solo. This is a very serious etude that would challenge most of us on the site, I think!

Hello Everyone,

The tune for this week will be Woody n You. Maybe it would be nice if we would try to do a version in a latin feel.

For those of you who are able to, try to make a duet yourself. So record one part and then add a second part all on your own.

I can also make a play along version, but let's first all study the tune a little and if someone needs help or wants a play along, I can make one during the week, ok?

Hope you guys will join in!

TJ

P.S. At the moment I'm doing these

Amazing. Everyone on this site needs a copy in my opinion.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002K0WC1S

Originally scheduled for release next Tuesday, this was apparently release a couple weeks ago. It is Bobby Hutcherson with his regular working band recording tunes written by or associated with John Coltrane. The session was done direct to two track.

Oh jeez!!

Sorry Ed, I can't wait for you to feel like posting this new vid: it's truly amazing!

That version of the tune is incredible! Awesome! I love it... Words are missing. It's so far from the original, and yet so close! Wow!

Enjoy guys!

- Marie

Here's another clip from the same concert that my previous post "Pure Spirit" was taken from.

The lineup is Dave Liebman - tenor, Matt Wilson - drums, David Clark - bass and me on vibes. We're performing an original of mine called The Healing. The concert took place on February 2nd, 09 at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH.

The Healing lead sheet can be downloaded from my website here: http://www.edsaindon.com/originalcompositions.htm