Hope you're all well and in good spirits out there. Just wanted to share this new video of a series of videos I'm producing from home entitled "Choro in My Apartment." I'm joined by my friend and Brazilian bad@ss pianist Helio Alves. It serves to document my love of Brazilian music, Coffee, and Brazilian Coffee

I was having a little more fun with this one and being less careful (read: it sounds worse)

Did I post this already? I don't think so.

At last week's "Vibe Online Coffee House", David Friedman was asked about his approach to introductions.
https://www.vibesworkshop.com/images/march-29th-2020-events/tonymiceli/…

I applied his response to my arrangement of the introduction for this week's tune, Emily, to create a mood. Here is one of my practice takes.

Barry

Be sure to download the attached excerpt from my book "Clave" which covers the examples found in this video lesson.

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Vibist Challenge: Since we all have pretty much a lot of time on our hands, I’m posting a fairly simple challenge to my fellow vibists out there. Here it is: Take an improvised chorus on “All the Things You Are” and use the exact rhythms from the Ted Reed “Syncopation” book on page 37. This is a page that all of the students of Alan Dawson have worked on in various drum set applications with the great legendary educator. The solo should be spontaneously improvised (not worked out ahead of time or written out) and clearly sound the changes.