Hey everyone,

I had the great opportunity to do a Skype lesson with Tony, Dimitris, and Denis today (who knew Babu's real name was Denis...learn something new everyday!). Denis mentioned a lot of the reasons why it was cool in his post, but I want to highlight some things:

1) You don't need a camera on your computer to participate. If you only have a microphone on your computer, that's totally okay!

Hello,

It was (I think) more then 5 years ago since I listened to this song, but last week I put it on, and kept thinking : "this vibes score sounds do-able for me". So I listened a couple of times to find out what the vibes exactly do, and then try to copy it. Here is the result.
Sometimes the original vibes interfere with my playing (or vice versa :-) ) in this recording. But I can't hit the bars at the EXACT same moment as they did when recording this. But overall I was happy with this.

You can hear that my playing is not fluid enough, but I hope you like it.
Greetings,

Hey guys, we just had (Dim, Carolyn and me) a skype lesson with Tony. All went good, sound clear.
That's fascinating to be able to meet people from several countries (USA, France, Greece in this case), as if everybody was in the same music room... Technology at it's best.
I think this is the future for music teaching. No one vibist will be let on his own, trying desesperately to learn alone... The vibes's malediction is over !
And all that because of M. Tony Miceli's vision years ago, hard work and generosity. One more time, thanks Tony !

Who doesn't love Dex!? Today is his birthday. What are your favorite Dexter tunes/albums. My favorite album is Doin' Allright. I also really like the blues on that album Society Red. Check out how behind the beat he sounds on the whole solo. It swings hard. That is Freddie Hubbard on trumpet.

Doing this whole lesson took me 30 minutes tops. Doing my version of How Deep took me about 4 minutes to record, well 6, I had a screw up in version 1. Not that this is a great version, but I wanted to quickly make an acceptable version of the tune. NO editing, just uploaded the tune. The tune part of this took total 15 minutes with probably a few to spare. So there's really no excuse to be active and post. Well except that you're too busy playing and jamming with people. That's about the only one.

Hey everyone,
The Wuppertal workshop 2013 it was one of the greatest so far. Amazing lessons and players from around the world. I would like to thanks personally Tony and David for their lessons because everytime I participate in such a great event my playing is totally changing to the better. So thank you guys for being such a great inspiration in my life.
Also I would like to thank Mathhias for his hard work organizing this workshop. Without him this could never become true...so, thanks Mathhias.

Me jamming with Jimmy Smith playing Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments.
http://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Moments/dp/B000V6A5LW

For the head, I was trying to get the same phrasing as the organ and horns.

I'd appreciate critiques/suggestions for my comping over organ and guitar.

Thanks,
Barry

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This year was special... because Tony had told me he would play a tune with me. And this promise alone just gave me wings... to practice, but also have more fun and get a bit less stressed when playing: what a secure situation to play with such an awesome player... and dear friend. Thank you buddy.

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This picture is so much like Dimitri (even though he's calm and still here!)! Dimitri is from greece and never comes without some good Greek food from his mother to share with us... but also with his funny jokes, happy moods... and awesome playing that has so much improved the past few years!! Go Dim!!! We all love you mad Greek Geek!! :o)
ps: one of Dim's friend living in Germany also came to the workshop: Costas. But I have no picture of him. I hope he comes back next time!

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Here is Tjaco from the Netherland with our great bassist for the vibe hang: Andreas!
Tjaco is one of Tony's very first students from abroad... at a time the site would not even exist and when they would exchange lessons and exercices on casettes! haha!! Go Tj!!! :o)