My camera is not good at taking pictures from gigs. But I love this one from Monday's gig: Mike listening to Franck's bassist...
Listening... the first thing we all need to learn if we want to play "the truth"... This picture looks like a…
Dear friends vibists,
unfortunately (!), I have decided to sell my brand new M55G. I bought it last november, it came to my house straight from the Musser factory.
I am a first year graduate music student in NY. As from this summer I am…
Neighbor tones!
Check out the PDF. As you can see, there are many ways to use NT's. They can easily become a vehicle for interesting lines both smooth and angular in your playing.
When looking at the PDF, remember that I left many out.…
This Friedman etude No3 from one of my students. I always encourage my students to make up and play their own etudes. I will post his soon.
Enjoy
Dimitris
I just had a talk with marie and we found that the word "chops" maybe can mean something different to all of us. So maybe to ask this question is a little late but maybe it´s good to see what most of you think...
to me chops means mostly…
This is one of my last etudes about solo vibes. The reason I post this etude is that I would like the opinion of the pros because I feel that something is missing from my playing.
Can you help?
I just worked on this with a student. I wrote out some two five one progressions where the chords keep moving down.
Where chops come in is this: You practice this and work up speed. Play 2 5 1 6's in different keys. This would really help…
I've thinking about the idea of mini concerts. Let me explain.
This month alone I've recorded over 2 gigs of.... me! This is how I practice. Sometimes I post some of these tracks on the site, hoping others will do the same. And they do…
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Look at my brand new "full commodity" practice room! haha!! :o)
Ok, seriously: my PC used to be under the stairs in the intrance where I practice... We decided to move the main toilets there, so the PC moved in the cupboard on the other…
This is a wonderful page recommended to me by my friend Nahum Ben-Yehuda, who was the inventer of the historic "Good Vibes" mallets. Here are some interesting facts with pictures of many of the old Deagan instruments, originally designed…
Hi All-
I always say this, but it's been a very long time since I've posted here. Looking forward to getting back into it.
For the first time since I've had this group Nós Novo (almost five years now,) I have a good video of one of our…
My Piano buddy Laura Klein introduced me to this tune by Wayne Shorter to me a few years ago. It is a tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese political activist that recently won the Nobel Peace Prize.
It proved to be very difficult for me…
This was recorded at an informal gig where our regular bass player couldn't make it. We ended up reading some tunes out of the real book so we wouldn't make the bassist sight read some of the more difficult originals. I was reading "…
Believe it or not, I wrote a percussion piece and and playing it up at Millersville University where James Armstrong teaches. He's a great percussionist and a great friend. He really helped me get the piece in shape!
Anyway!!!!! He gave…
Argh!
Well...I have taken an unplanned rest from Afro Blue because...
1) First, I forgot about a recording session I agreed to play marimba on, so I had to spend a weekend staying up too late and getting up too early trying to cram…
Hi all,
I'm needing (quickly !) super-extra-soft mallets for vibraphone. Visiting the Mike Balter's site the 16R model is said for marimba use, anyone knowing if it would work fine with vibes ?
There's the Vibrawell V9R too. Any info about…
Dear Gary,
Messing around through the users's profiles, I can see that you're on the site since one year and 5 weeks… jeez it seems to me like yesterday! I remember we were all soooo impressed each time you'd log in! :o)
Not that we are no…
13 years 8 months ago - 8 comments
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