Working on this beautiful song today at home on the vibes. There are so many great versions of this song. Favorites include versions by Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans and Brad Mehldau. I Fall in Love Too Easily" is a 1944 song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

Enjoyed learning this étude – still need to go back to the woodshed and shape dynamics/and groove to name a few :-). I believe my book has a misprint. For example, b section (six measure in) I play C sharp ... But I believe it should be tied so it stays "C natural" thoughts?

A little duet I recorded just now with myself and a drum track. Been trying to get some different sounds lately.

So, first things first… I learned something very important yesterday. I need to hit the woodshed playing chromatic scales. I suck. ☺

OK… beyond that, here are the files and a few notes from the recording workshop yesterday. For those who are reading this online and who were not there, I did a short presentation in Delaware for the students at Tony’s weeklong workshop. The focus of my session was recording the vibes and related issues. We discussed a bunch of things, one of which was mic choices. These are the audio files we created.

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Adding to the last lesson's lydian idea. Now integrating it in the context of a V-1 cadence.

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“J'OURVET”
TOM BERICH and THOMAS MACKAY

So, tomorrow AM I will be talking about recording the vibes at the workshop in Delaware. Here are some links to some good tech specs for some of the mics we will be using in the workshop. There are also some good links to sites about mic patterns and recording.

Earthworks SR69: http://www.fullcompass.com/common/files/278-SR69ProductBrochure.pdf

AKG414: http://www.akg.com/pro/p/c414xls

Chameleon Labs TS1 (this is for a newer version than what I have, but similar): http://www.chameleonlabs.com/#!ts-1-mk-ii/c1s4s