Hi everyone,
Check out this very cool group of percussionists from Vancouver, BC, Kutapira. They are so young but playing very sophisticated and complex rhythms with ease. Beyond the technical, they are great fun to watch and listen to.
It's not professional audio/video but still worthwhile.
You'll be hearing them on Good Vibes radio soon.
Gloria

Check out Behn's new etude.

To the first person who posts this etude, I'll send Behn's 2 latest CD's for free.

Here's a midi file of the etude. But I'll get Behn over to video the etude.

BUT HERE'S THE FINE PRINT!

YOU HAVE POST THE ETUDE IN THE COMMENTS ON THIS PAGE TO BE ELIGIBLE, NOT ON ANOTHER PAGE (So I can keep track!)
THIS IS FOR THE FIRST POSTING OF THE ETUDE. WE'LL GO BY THE TIME STAMP OF THE COMMENT.

So get to work! This one sounds cool.

Guys,

So yesterday we started with Bruno the restoration of my vibes... oh man this is a great adventure! We don't know how long it will take, and how fine it will look, but we are doing it! (jeez, let it be short: I wanna play!!!!) :o(

I take a lot of pictures so far, but posting them on the site is too heavy and long work as I need to reduce them all, etc... But I guess many of you are on Face Book. So you can follow the whole process there:

Check it out!

Those of you who met me at the Delaware boot camp know I have a horrible time playing vibes in front of an audience. Part of that is just lack of confidence. And this is caused by not knowing what the hell I'm doing. So Ive decided to tackle this problem and start working live with vibes.

I booked a steady gig in duo for Wednesday evenings twice a month.
It will be a vibes and guitar duo.

Your help in determining how to do this without making a fool of myself would be greatly appreciated. Suggestions for tunes that are not too difficult in duo would be appreciated.

Okay guys, let's start working on lines. In this lesson what we will want to do is make very simple lines. In all these lessons we always want to hear the tune. It needs to be recognizable and obvious to everybody listening and obvious to your self when you record it and play it back.

Make sure you always begin this by playing the melody and chords and as I say, fill the room with the sound of the tune. That's very important so that any mistakes you make standout and you can recognize them. Make sure you're always playing and listening and for that fact recording and listening back.

Hi all!

I discovered that the way I am trying to play Work Song is a quite tricky mallet dampening etude to me when I try to let the chords ring for comping. Next time I'll use a metronome - promised.

any feed back welcome, cheers Stefan

My buddy Bryan who is a GREAT bass player came over late last night with Chris Ashman a great tumpet player, whom I taught at U Arts.

Bryan insisted on keep the metronome on while we played. I thought I would post this.

You guys have me all inspired with tunes, and I've been going nuts relearning everything I forgot. So thanks. We played some tunes and other keys and just really tried to push ourselves. I dig that and I dig playing with young cats. They are on fire.

Have I posted this already?

Do you know Lem Winchester? When you see Scott Davidson lurking about, he's writing a biography of Lem. Lem is a Milt Jackson with a tragic tragic ending. Anyone know how he died? Very sad.

Any stories about Lem from the pros?

Lem is on the left.

Tony! This is for you! I practiced your etude one more time and decided to post it. It's not perfect but I tried my best.
Haven't you said the one who records it get a gift from the store? Your new mallets? ;-)