What a great day. I picked up Joe Locke early today we had lunch and talked about stuff then picked up Patricia Franceschy and turned on the cams.

Joe is a wealth of information and a very courageous vibe player. Ask to him play and he'll just start. He has a very modern approach to harmony which was really exciting for me to hear.

He talks humbly about his 4 mallet playing but wait until you see some of these vids. His 4 mallet solo playing is spectacular.

He's had a GREAT career and has so much to offer.

Check out the audio clip I have attached this article. I think sometimes students don't get it, that is how to really study something. How a little snip it can be so valuable. I spend 2.5 hours on this snippet tonight. First I love it! It's from Brad Meldau playing Anthropology. The whole solo is from another planet.

Thanks so much to Barryk. He posted this Band In A Box file for my tune, titled and dedicated to Vince Guaraldi.

Check it out!

Thank you Tony for putting this up.

Thank you J M Piper for your reading patterns. (I'm still on board!)

And thanks to everyone else who has contributed.

This is a great site, from which I've already learned a lot.

kb

I always have this thing. When I see vibe players play something that I think is really great, I want to try it myself. Some of the pieces up here that I've played were inspired that way. I don't do this as a competitive thing. At least not totally, mostly I do it to learn, to compare. What did I do and what did they do. What can I learn from them and do better. I guess that's how you study right? Your teacher plays something and you try to do your version and sound as good if not better.

So I'm hanging online with Patty via google talk and we were talking about Mike Pinto, so i figured I'd post the vid here. I think he sounds great, and his approach is a little different. He uses those Milt mallets but holds 3 I think most of the time. [I think.] He'll probably see this and maybe he can comment on it. Just goes to show you when it comes to grips. I like his lines so who cares about the rest.

jonathan,

just got a gig thursday, but i'm done at seven should be home by 9. is that too late?

i'm actually working every night this week.

if thursday falls apart then i think unless you have daytimes free, we're into next week.

what's happening with the resonators? any luck using them?

cu
tony

To be honest this was an interesting podcast for me to make. Take a look at Dan Gorlin. He does not look like an expert on West African music, particularly the music from Ghana. But he really knows his stuff and has been studying, playing and teaching this music for 30 years now.

If that wasn't enough, I've heard from two great Philly musicians about him, and he definitely knows his stuff.

Besides that, just spending the night with him showed me how much passion (and knowledge) he has for this music and for teaching it. This is a 2 part series, definitely worth watching.

Recording of today's sight reading etude with the pedal down throughout using dampening.

Link to etude: http://www.vibesworkshop.com/story/sight-reading-exercise-each-day-shap…