Made you look.

The point I wanted to bring up is how do we make a living on this instrument? Who out there has made a living playing the vibes? Or was making a living and then got a 'real' job (as my mother used to say). What are your thoughts?

What are some ideas for graduating percussionists who really want to make a living out of playing jazz?? It is almost graduation time?

Have I brought this up already?

I was just thinking about this, on another post, talking about swinging.

A great musician told me, 'The only people who really know if you're a great player is everyone else but you. It's not your decision to make that'.

I play so often and am just not sure if I played a good solo or not, I try not to be judgemental.... I try. So many times I think I sucked and others including the band thought the opposite. Were they being nice to me? Or am I wrong.

I love this. Check out how the guitar player is comping and imagine comping like that behind someones solo. I'm working with a great latin percussionist so I'm learning a ton about the music (again). I've been checking out Changui music which I think means "beginning". Am I right? Any latinos out there?

I just think here's another way to comp. Just a single line.

YO EVERYBODY. I DID AN OLD LESSON: QUICK AND DIRTY VIDEO-GETTING YOUR GROOVE ON.
THIS LESSON WAS GREAT. A LOT OF FUN BUT HARD AS WELL...ALTHOUGH IT SEEMS EASY TO PLAY!

I POST 3 TRACKS
1.JUST VIBES
2.WITH PLAY ALONG
3. ONLY THE PLAY ALONG IF YOU WANT TO TRY IT.

THANKS

I got this link on FB from Canadian vibist Robert Pelletier and it reminded me so much of Joe Porter's tambourine. Sorry explanations are in French as it's from a musical program in France with aim of making accessible and fun to all classical and jazz music.

The image/sound sync is not good either, but maybe the images speak enough by themselves and show the instrument functionning quite closely.

- Around 4"30 there's a first demo about the cymbals.
- Around 5"51 Carlo shows how he changes the pitch of the tambourine by unbending the skin.

Well, the site is NOT organized that great. It's very hard to organize almost 5 or 6 thousand posts. That being said I also think that a lot of people do not know how to use some of the built in organization:

Have you tried to click on the 'terms' on each lesson. If you see the descriptive term 'chords' (we call that taxonomy) and you click on it, it will pull up everything with that taxonomy term on the post. That's one way to find everything about let's say grips.

I play a lot of Bach on my own, but I hardly ever perform it. I decided to put some out there to force myself to really work something up. I am constantly amazed by this music and how every voice is so interesting. Hopefully I did it justice.

I POST FRRIEDMAN 3 IN A DIFFERENT POST AS TJACO TOLD ME.

YO TJACO...

I'm toying around with the idea of doing a TOTM Skype workshop this Saturday. Maybe around noon U.S. EDT?

This would be an experiment. I could handle 3 or 4 people on skype. We could spend an hour working on the tune. Anyone interested?

Just putting feelers out there. Nothing is definite yet. You'd need skype. I'll do video and audio, you don't have to do video on your end.

Here's a chord etude on fried bananas.

you're job is to add the chords and the alterations. If you have questions post them here.

I'll include a demo, a midi file, and the finale file. You can use these however.