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Playing 'All God's Chillin' Got Rhythm'. Practicing my up tempos. As I'm playing I'm thinking wow, this is a drum. I was getting into this whole drum thing on the vibes and it was so cool. To play with just 2 mallets and think of this as a…
13 years 11 months ago - 3 comments
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Hey guys, hope everybody is well. I'm playing in Switzerland with Latin-Jazz Pianist Hector Martignon and his Quartet from November 16th to 19th and I'm looking for an instrument. Please let me know if there is anyone that can lent me or…
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I talk a little about quarter notes and how important I think they are and what's great about practicing them.
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Come to the vibe hang! The link will be on the front page of the site, Saturday! Come check out the vibe hang at the University of Delaware, Saturday Nov. 5, 2011 from 2pm to 4pm!
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Here's a lesson on modal comping.
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This is from John's CD, Just a Step Away. Everything is great about this and John said I could post it. This is exclusively for members only.
13 years 11 months ago - 27 comments
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I'm going to put the word out to Behn, Ted, Mike and all the other guys for comping lessons. I'll also do some as well. Let's start off with questions? You have any questions about comping?? I always tell my students that everybody should…
13 years 11 months ago - 5 comments
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Here The N°8. It was nice to have to listen to Gregorian singing - made me re-discover this wonderful music. At 0'32 and 2'21 I had to cut bad scratches, don't know where they are coming from...
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Again beautiful melody... and tough nuances to make... My rit is a bit early.
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Barry recently posted a little duet of Amazing Grace with his daughter on Flute. Florian and Emily are around the same age (10-11). Florian just started learning guitar this year. He was ok to record and post our first little duet of a…
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The first thing I notice in this video is the left hand playing right in the range of the bass player. Teddy Wilson came from the Benny Goodman Quartet where for a time there was no bass player. So it was Teddy Wilson's left hand. Also I…
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Why don't we all answer these. Here are my answers Where's the dividing line between playing a melodically interesting accompaniment and overpowering the soloist? I think this gets into that area where you need technique and sensativity.…
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Here a good exemple (IMHO) of two great musicians listening to each other. Note the constant search in order to produce different sounds, with no electronical effects, close to what acoustic vibes is. Enjoy !
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Beautifully written! Pleasant to read and discover... hard to play with nuances... Still a lot to improve from this version... Thank you David!! :o)
13 years 11 months ago - 3 comments
Grips
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Which grip would you recommend for someone starting to study the vibraphone ? There are four possibilities that I have researched: 1) Burton Grip 2) Musser-Stevens Grip 3) Ed Saindon's Fulcrum Grip 4) Ney Rosauro's Extended Cross Grip…
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Special thanks to Ed Saindon for finding this treasure!... And to 'Jeff' for recording, saving, digitalizing and sharing it! Enjoy! :o)
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Hello everyone. This is my first lesson on Chords & Harmony festival 2011. This lesson has to do with the major and minor triads that you can play over a diminished h-w scale. So, I hope you find this interesting. For any questions let…
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Hey everybody, I'm working on some computer + vibraphone compositions and a set of pickups for the vibes. My idea is that the pickups are used for effects and processing on an iPhone and the dry vibraphone sound is either live or picked up…
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