http://www.steveyeager.com/Home.html Says it all. Check him out, I think you'll love Steve's playing and if you haven't heard him already, this should be a treat. Also a real nice person and we'd love to hear from him at www.vibesworkshop.com

check out samples at his web site and then... (buy something)

Here's a prerequisite for the Shapes and Patterns of Music sight reading. My recommendation is to play these exercises as fast as you can but start at the beginning no matter how proficient you already are. If it's too easy, play it faster!

Check this out. This is not the greatest mix .. one mic in the middle of the room. on a sunday afternoon in portland oregon. my friend david valdez would have weekend session at his crib and would invite some kiler players that lived in portland or were passing thru on tour. just a huge laboratory.. we would all just throw tunes out and play ideas totally to the wind. and press record... Sphereology is a composition of mine that was actually composed in i think 1990 or earlier. This song bring back memories study with Mike Blake at UND.

This is something i dug up from the cellar. This recording in the pre master version of this tune. i dont think the cd ever was released. ive not heard the mastered copy which has tenor player Martin Feiro on it.

With all this talk about lines, I thought I'd remind everyone about some of the bebop heads. Donna Lee, Scrapple, Anthropology, these are major studies in 'the language'. Not only the language of bebop but the language of music, how things resolve, how lines move. You could study Donna Lee for months and learn so much. That's a masterpiece in the art of the line.

To me that's as heavy as any 32 bars of Bach.

how's this?

Here's a recording of a gig I did in december 2007. This is a tune I didn't really know and it's harmonically pretty hard to play, so I actually faked it, as you can hear in some parts I play. The solo I played totally by ear, and man, listen to the audience responding! This was a great experience for me. I hope you like it.

TJ

I think it might be a good idea to start posting items here on a regular basis, where the technical background of the vibes are explained. I've found that there are things many vibists don't realize.

I'll start off in a couple of days with a first topic as soon as work quiets down here at the company (we're preparing for PASIC with several new instruments).

Nico
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Trying to regulate email from the site is pretty tough. So here are some options.

Click on 'my account' under the menu that's under your login name on the left side of the page and then click on MANAGE MY SUBSCRIPTIONS.

There you'll see 3 (at the time of this writing) newsletters. One if the VIBES NEWSLETTER, that one won't come more than once of twice a month to your inbox. So if you just want us to check in once in a while check that newsletter.

The TELL ME EVERYTHING newsletter. Well, you get it, right? That one will go more frequently.

Hey Tony, Did we pick a time for tomorrow yet? I didn't see one reading through our past messages. I'm free anytime after dinner. Would 7:30 work for you?

Jon