This etude combines some of the voicings from the 2nd etude, along with lines. Practicing tunes this way will help with solo playing, but also playing nice solos in duo and trio settings as well when there's no other chordal instrument…
Hi everybody,
hope you are all doing well,
here I'm posting where I'll be in Europe in the next two weeks -
feel free to contact me if you are around these places......
I'll be in Geneva from now to the 21st. - then I'll be in Berlin from…
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The following are publications written by David Kovins:
Vibraphone Portfolio, 5 Sols…
Hey all,
I'm going to be buying a vibraphone and set up some pickups on the keys. I am looking at a Deagan 512 on sale for $1,900. I am also looking at a 3-octabe Leedy from somewhere between 1929 and WWII (not much info given) for $1,800…
Vibes Congress 2015 Recap
The 2015 Vibes Congress convened this last weekend at Malletech’s factory in Neptune, New Jersey, and featured mallet pros and enthusiasts from all around the world. Those of us who were fortunate enough to be in…
Here is my Mini Concert that was recorded at Tony's house during the December 2014 vibe hang.
1. All the Things You Are.
2. Excerpts from "Let it Go" from the movie "Frozen".
3. An Etude I wrote for hand independence. http://www.…
I’ve been a while away, due to some personal circumstances. But I'm back here. It doesn’t mean off course that I didn’t do anything with the vibes, but it wasn’t as much as usual. Let me fill you in with ‘the vibraphone road’ I took these…
Understated sophistication that aims for the heart.
Whoever knows me knows how fond I am of vibraphonist David Friedman’s music (though it may not be obvious from my own playing). But notwithstanding this decades-old bias, you might share…
Hi guys here is a schedule that you can follow for practising tunes in a proficient way.
I’ve lost and i’m still loosing a tot of time playing around with the instrument but not really studing and fixing anything in my brain so i wrote…
Solo marimba audioclip of George Gershwin's classic composition "Summertime" from a video shoot taped by the Vic Firth production team which took place at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Other songs recorded at the session were (on…
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