here´s some more music i wrote for the detective novel...this time a simple 7/8 bass vamp with various themes played by the malletkat and sax.

this will be during a chase in the story...you get the picture?

This is an excerpt of a great workshop David gave at our French workshop this year.

He talked about getting up and improvising on your instrument or a different one, and playing it in a way where you can get to know it.

This was at the Vibesworkshop France workshop.

Hi Everyone,

Great player! I was just watching some of his videos to get inspired to practice, when I noticed these weird spacers on his vibes. Anyone have info on them?

So I said I'd start to be accountable and post video of things I"m working on. This is a start. Starting reading through this yesterday. Harder than it looked! So many nuances with time, phrasing, pedaling, etc. So, a work in progress! I did analyze it as Tony recommended. Posted an image of the page here too.

"When I Fall In Love" - My private students and I were working on solo vibe playing concepts last week as applied to ballads. In addition to working on solo playing techniques, we were discussing ways of sounding colors of the chord via the use of counterpoint, chord voicings or with the lines when filling in between phrases or improvising.

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