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.

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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
vanderPlas Baileo

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

Yikes!

This has become a fairly extensive site, with a LOT of material. Once you are a paid subscriber to the site, spend a few days just looking around and learning where things are.

The Front Page: This page will constantly change, It's going to feature a lot of the new stuff coming onto the site. The old stuff will scroll of as more new stuff comes on.

Resources: Here's where all the important stuff is, the online books, audio, video and more. In the online books is where all the lessons get categorized. Once a lesson is categorized here it will stay in the same spot.

I have been working hard on this Etude but I have not been able to get through it solo without mistakes. I am trying to memorize it though. I decided to use Band-in-a-Box to cover my mistakes. I didn't really learn the 2nd part of the tune so I faded that part out.

I love this tune so I am still going to keep at it.

Here is my audio setup:

Hi Everyone,

Can't say I've written a blog before but there's a first time for everything. I was discussing this with John Piper and he thought it would be a great discussion for the community.

This site is obviously a great resource for all of us; looking to become better musicians, enthusiasts, vibraphonists, whatever...and there has been a TON of valuable material posted. I myself check the vibes workshop about 5 times per day to see what is new and what I can add to my practice routine.