Guys,

Two Experts are in Manhattan this afternoon!

Joe Locke & Christos Rafalides are giving a percussion masterclass in the Manhattan School of Music.

All details here: http://www.msmnyc.edu/calendar/event.asp?eid=4151

If anyone of you attend, please give us a report, take pics, let us know!!!

- M

Pict is attached. I promised Marie I'd post the bad news.

Another cut from the Mountain View Concert

Here's minor blues tip. I always think this is common knowledge but I find that a lot of new players don't know about this.

Here is my recording of Friedman Etude 9

Here's a series I'd like to run on connecting the dots, that is making lines with chord tones and scales. I think this could be very useful for some of you guys and this would get more complex as time went on. Let me know what you think. Try doing the excercise and posting it.

Ok that's it, i'm cutting my hair.

ME.

Hi Tony,

I've been thinking about the problem of the amount of labor it takes to run this site, and it occurred to me that we could probably help you out with some of the non-vibes-playing aspects of maintaining things. I don't know where your main time sinks are, but if they could be broken up into discrete, unrelated chunks, then the members could volunteer to do the tasks for you.