I was just thinking about Dim's ability to process criticism without ego and turn it into immediate positive results. Of course it's a credit to him as a passionate musician/student(But isn't that what we are? Musicians and life long students?) It's also a credit to Tony for creating this wonderful platform where we all can present our work, exchange ideas and enjoy the fruits of constructive criticism. This should serve as a motivation for all Vibesworkshoppers to post as often as possible.

Richard posted this very recent gig exerpt on his FB... We didn't know him as harmonica player did we?! Beautiful rendition of this Metheny tune I wanted to share with you... Lovely feel!

Oh man... Beautiful!!!

Ok, I tried my best here. This was a tough lesson to make, I hope you guys follow me on this. Any questions or confusion let me know. It's a bit abstract.

YO

YO...

Check these guys out if you're around. Should be great. They are incredible musicians. Just going to be EVI and Sax for this.

Concert will be live and online here:

www.justin.tv/studymusiconline

Made you look.

The point I wanted to bring up is how do we make a living on this instrument? Who out there has made a living playing the vibes? Or was making a living and then got a 'real' job (as my mother used to say). What are your thoughts?

What are some ideas for graduating percussionists who really want to make a living out of playing jazz?? It is almost graduation time?

Have I brought this up already?

I was just thinking about this, on another post, talking about swinging.

A great musician told me, 'The only people who really know if you're a great player is everyone else but you. It's not your decision to make that'.

I play so often and am just not sure if I played a good solo or not, I try not to be judgemental.... I try. So many times I think I sucked and others including the band thought the opposite. Were they being nice to me? Or am I wrong.

I love this. Check out how the guitar player is comping and imagine comping like that behind someones solo. I'm working with a great latin percussionist so I'm learning a ton about the music (again). I've been checking out Changui music which I think means "beginning". Am I right? Any latinos out there?

I just think here's another way to comp. Just a single line.