Hi Everyone, I’m Dan from Canada. I play the vibraphone and am learning jazz. I also practise Wing Chun Kung Fu, coach my teenage son in music and driving, and assist my wife with her translation company. It helps to be retired!

I hope to have my own jazz trio someday. I’m still working on my mallet and improvisation skills, and am very slowly working toward ease playing with and for others. I have very little performance experience, and quite honestly I find it all pretty intimidating. Hence, this course! I look forward to learning and growing with you.

I tried visualising and audiating directly before starting and renewing the intention whilst playing.

I can hear where the mental representation is unclear, but the method worked better than I had anticipated considering that I can’t visualise an image.

What I can do is hear the notes and feel the movement in my fingers.

There is another passage I want to work on with the same method to see if I can get it more fluent.

Maybe with more practice I will see some images.