I've a sing-a-long vibe show coming up at a rest home next week. In the firm belief that going on with life into old age takes both courageous endurance and a sense of humor, I wrote up the following lyrics to "So What". I'd welcome…
Cool few days. I play duo with this alto player Aaron Irwin and we have a lot of fun playing tunes. Well we've started to do a study of Parker tunes. We took Blues for Alice, Donna Lee and Anthropology and soloed on them through the keys.…
Recording of today's sight reading etude using dampening with the pedal down throughout.
Note: The click is on each eighth note since I couldn't get the metronome to be slow enough for each quarter note.
Etude No. 7 for me is the first etude in this book that's perfect for a recital. It incorporates all the dampening and pedaling discussed so far in an etude that really sounds pretty.
In the book Dave says that he's indicated stick no. 4…
This is a really pretty etude and will give you an intro into dampening and moving chords around. This is a great study which will really help your playing.
Here David talks about solo playing and makes the point about syncopation. Why play the same rhythm with both hands? Play another rhythm with the left hand.
Hi, I'm currently studying the jazz vibes at the University of Sherbrooke and I'm selling my vibraphone YAMAHA 2700G. This is my very first vibraphone and I've been playing on it for 2 years. It comes with the YAHAMA cover for this model…
I was playing F blues and some interval or chord I played reminded my of this tune. I didn't know the name of it so I went to http://www.musipedia.org/flash_piano.html and played the partial melody on the piano in the web page and it…