I really don't post too much in this blog, so here is a shorty on what we're doing at this moment at vanderPlas Baileo.
We started to have montly clinics at our facility in Sassenheim, generally every first Saturday of the month. This…
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It's short notice, but I will be playing at Smalls Jazz Club in NYC tonight, and you can watch it through a live stream. Just go to www.smallsjazzclub.com and click on the live feed tab. Starts at 9:30PMest. The group is…
I have a lead sheet from an old song book but I don't think it has the right changes.
I found this online. Are these correct?
Key of Eb 4/4
Pickup | G7 |
[ Cm Fm7 | Fm7 Bb7 |…
Oh man this is so unbelievable. Terry Pollard is a smoking pianist and then she gets on the vibes and tears it up with Terry Gibbs. And Gibbs is a monster on this!!!
I died when i heard this!!!
Maybe you guys already saw this before (Marciac 2007). Dana sent it to me yesterday: love it!! :o)
Gary? Are you both still sharing that kind of fun moment on stage? ;-)
This is beautiful!! Illya Amar worked on that Chaplin film "Easy Street" and played solo vibes on the whole movie. This vid is an excerpt. I warmly invite you to watch it entirely (around 20 mn?) from his website: http://www.illyaamar.com/…
So we're about to start studying chords and harmony. In my usual fashion I have no idea what we're going to do. I figure it's like this: There are a lot of vibe players here and we can collectively use all our minds together and really…
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Today, Monday, I am on a clear liquid diet. Tomorrow is the big day. I will be off the board probably for a day and a half and then I will be back. When I come back, that means I am alive and well (automatically). It has been…
Here's a version of Lush Life from a while back. I was working on 2 things here. You'll here the octaves as soon as the main melody starts and you'll hear me going into the stride stuff after a while.
I always try and play some tunes as if…
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I'm happy to tell you all that I will be playing Dana's and Marie-Noelle's "Soulflakes" in my December show. Dana has also given me permission to play his "Christmas Time Is Here."
I'll post more about the show in a few weeks.
Here's a very important exercise to help with chord voicings. Don't skimp on this one. Spend months on this!!
Chienese translation for Chinese Students
開離密集和弦練習(open and closed voicing)
好處:幫助你暢通無阻的演奏各種不同轉位的和聲配置(voicing)
因為練習那些位置上,…
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Here's the November 6 and 9 line-up:
Behn opens the show with "Overcooked."
Then David Friedman with "Rios."
Gary Burton/Rebecca Parris and "Au Privave."
Pat Metheny and "Blues for Pat" (no vibes)
Cecelia Smith
Arturo Serra debuts…
in my lesson we talked about approaching practicing for a little, and tony reminded me of a bill evans quote.
"It's better to practice one tune for 24 hours than it is to practice 24 tunes in an hour."
I'm guessing he didn't mean…
Here N°6. The tempo is slow in relation at what is indicated on the book, but no way to play faster. Since the N° 7 is with the same melody, I hope speed will increase with time. Reducing to MP3 format make loose some of the nuances.
Ted Wolff posted a video titled 'Never Seen Vibe Playing Like this'.http://www.vibesworkshop.com/video/never-seen-vibes-playing/tedwolff/10…
I thought I would counter his post with this one!
I CAN say that watching Ted's video and this…
Twenty or so folks, mostly ladies in wheelchairs, at the rest and rehab hospital last night for a sing-a-long with Jocey's soprano voice leading and me on MalletKat synthing vibes. We did a dozen songs in an hour. I played each melody…
Dream about them, think about them. Imagine them. Let's get ready to study them for a couple months. Chords, harmony, voicings, colors, shadings. Let's strip them down and build them up. Let's really work hard on chords and harmony and see…