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Yo guys,

One of the requests I get for the vibe hangs is that I'll devote time and answer some questions that people might be having.

I'm thinking about setting up some times 'office' hours. I can go online live for an hour here or there and if you guys have any questions we can talk about them. for now, i'd probably do it like the vibe hangs and you guys would have to type the questions. But I think we could get 3 or 4 of us on skype and try it like that sometime.

Restricting your options is a great way to get freed up on the vibes.

Here's a vid from an online workshop that we did recently. It's with Steve Giordano and John Swana. We talk about learning tunes, playing without a bass and practicing.

I didn't put this up already did I?

James Whiting posted a real pretty piece where he manually rotated the fan blades. Dr. Bob commented that he would like a crank on the side to override the motor and have the blades pop back to the open position. That made me wonder what I could make from things around the house to do that. Here is the result. I used a 7.5" Jumbo Rubber Band, Spring-type door stopper, shim, and a quick clamp. I screwed the door stopper into the shim and clamped it to the vibes. I replaced the original belt with the rubber band, gave it a twist so it would stay around the door stop.

Back when I played my company's holiday party, the clamp that holds the legs on my 1959 Deagan 580 snapped. I tried fabricating one, but it didn't work out. I emailed Gilberto Serna at Century Mallet. He had them in stock, for only $5.00 each! I ordered two. Received them quickly.

http://www.centurymallet.com/

Barry

Work towards lines that make sense. Simple lines.

I always like that progression and I'm not a theory guy, but I have my version on why it works and what it's about. I was actually going to make podcast about it, but I thought instead I'd open it up for discussion first.

What do you think about that progression? Why is it you can slip in a C#dim in between a repeating dominant chord??

I'll leave it at that.

Everybody by now must know about Pandora. What a great web-app.

I've been using it lately to get myself in a vibe. I've felt a little stale about my voicings and things, so I created a Hindemith radio channel and have been listening to that, focusing on it and also as I do other things.