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Like Someone In Love by Tony Miceli

I gave myself the Coffee Shop Test tonight. That is I'm playing solo in a coffee shop what would I play. Here's what I did.

I like coffee shops because if you play in them they're very low key. No one is walking expecting anything heavy. I always tell my students to go get a gig in a coffee shop. So when I do my imaginary gig at a coffee shop I feel pretty relaxed, as opposed to my pretend gig at Carnegie Hall.

Then I tried to get a little Mainieri sound happening with the EQ and modulation.

All the Things You are

I've been playing jazz vibes for about a year and a half now. This is from a recent gig. This was the first time I've ever played this song on vibes.

I'm posting it and maybe one more track. The reason I'm posting it, is because I'm trying to improve on improvising. I come from more of a drumset background and I find I often approach improvising more from a rhythmical background. My girlfriend told me I need to try to be more "melodic" tell me what you think,

thanks,

Joe

TOTM Soapbox and Discussion

Here is something I would like to talk about and open up for discussion.

I think with every lesson and study that there is a hidden field that doesn't get talked about quite enough, and the hidden field is average time required for the lesson. We can pick a general number for this, that is the amount of time most musicians should put in for the required task or study.