This attachment on "Tritone Substitutions" goes along with Tony's lesson on "Pivot Chords".

Here's both parts of a duet on 'Bye Bye Blackbird'.

The mp3 with only one part is listed below. I like the melody at the end of this piece where I play octaves but they're separated by an octave. Make sense? What do you call an octave that's 2 octaves apart? I don't know!

yo,

we didn't get too much done this summer. that's cool as long as you're really ready to work hard now.

make sure you have the friedman book and get the bach sonatas and partidas for violin as well.

so just bring them to the first lesson so we don't waste any time.

cool?

cu
tony

Here's a podcast I did a while ago for a vibe camp (I think). I talk about transposing Dolphin Dance. Get the music out and follow along.

Here's a 4 part lesson talking about scales and modes. Some introductory stuff with a little depth.

Listening to Ed’s great "Invitation" w/ Philippe Macé, I thought: where have I heard this tune before? Sure! Joe played it (in Paris too) in April 08 for the Moutin Brothers’ band 10th anniversary… I was there, but I also got a recording from the radio! :o)

Some might remember Joe’s great solo I posted a few months ago, as part of the drop 2 lessons. It was somehow the intro of "Invitation". The tune itself starts at 6:00.

I remember joe talking to us about Vincent Herring. You guys remember that. I do think it's hard to keep up with players now, there are not as many clubs any more.

Tony 1st attempt at etude head only

Ok so the classroom is here. it's just a question of what we want to do with it. which could be nothing if everyone is busy.

but it's here.

if you want to make some goals and things to do we can. then you guys could record the assignments and post things.

i'll post the first assignment and we can see where everyone is at:

Assignment:

So it's official with my new phone. I wussed out and got a Palm Pre instead of cancelling Sprint and getting the Iphone. The Pre however so far is really cool. It might not quite hang with the Iphone but it's up there.

It took me a week, but I moved all my data to Google. That means my life lives in the cloud now. The cloud is what geeks call that area where we have all our data and we don't quite know where it is, but it's there. If you use flikr for your photos then your photos are in the cloud.