Hey Folks,
It's spring cleaning and I'm thinning the herd- I've got so many sets of mallets accumulated of the years which I'm not using. I was obsessed with trying to find the right vibe mallets at one point. I even went to Steve Weiss…
The ultimate thing for me is a decent vibe sound. I dig this sound and am getting very comfortable with it and playing it.
This is a different instrument and you have to approach things differently, but I know I'll get better at playing…
Help is needed.
Sometimes I read people explaining how to simulate the vibraphones vibrato effect when using a pickup system.
In most of these cases it is explained as a tremolo effect.
I think this is not really the case.
Let's take a…
I always thought that pitch bending the vibraphone was an interesting technique, but I don't really like it. I recently figured out why. It changes the pitch lower. It is a kind of sad sound to me. In contrast, guitarists bend pitch up…
I think this is pretty cool.
The thing about a controller is 'can you control the sound'. So as I'm testing out the MalletKat I'm trying to control different sounds.
I'm getting it. Can you hear a few notes pop out? I'll have to work on…
Been using the malletkat for a new project of mine. Here's a short clip from a new tune entitled "Cogs."
This music will be recorded soon and the CD should be out by the end of the year. I'm running the Kat through a Nord Electro rack…
This is just to give you an idea of a concept and way of playing.
It eventually will let you play lines with two mallets while using your outside left mallet to comp.
Check out the pdf below.
You should know the tune. Write in the names of all the chords. Play all the voicings in time. Once you have it down, add rhythms.
Earl Scruggs died today. He was the Charlie Parker of the banjo. He was one heavy guy. I got to see him play once when I was a little kid. Way before I even played music. RIP, Earl
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