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Hi All, The September Good Vibes is ready to air on Sunday the 4th and Wednesday the 7th. 1st hour: Steve Nelson Joe Locke Bobby Hutcherson Lionel Hampton Tony Tom Collier Milt Jackson Chuck Redd Arthur Lipner 2nd hour Randy Sutin w/Tyrone…
13 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
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Here is a tune written by my friend Adam Ledbetter in Oklahoma City. I brought this tune into Ed Saindon's office a couple of weeks ago and he showed me a million and a half things that can be done with it to fill it out. Here is were I am…
13 years ago - 10 comments
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All the young cats at the workshop this year we VERY talented! He's Ryan and Steve.
13 years ago - 4 comments
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Sorry, this comes a bit late, when everybody is already thinking about the next TOTM. I wish I had played more chords here, as I've spent a weeks playing chords and chord subs on Autumn Leaves. But I when started playing, I found myself…
13 years 1 month ago - 7 comments
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Here's both parts of a duet on 'Bye Bye Blackbird'. The mp3 with only one part is listed below. I like the melody at the end of this piece where I play octaves but they're separated by an octave. Make sense? What do you call an octave…
13 years 1 month ago - 4 comments
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Hi all, Here's some ideas for chord substitutions for the TOTM, Autumn Leaves. My apologies, but I'm getting over a cold, so please excuse the Johnny Hartman voice, haha! And also, apologies for my damn pedal! Behn
12 years 11 months ago - 12 comments
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this is the last song i mixed for my trio. the song is written by the singer and is (at least for me) not easy to play. the vibes solo isn´t too good but it was the best i could do on recording day... tarik
13 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
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Check this out. This is not the greatest mix .. one mic in the middle of the room. on a sunday afternoon in portland oregon. my friend david valdez would have weekend session at his crib and would invite some kiler players that lived in…
13 years 1 month ago - 3 comments
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The Duo CD with Saxophonist, Peter Weniger is finally out. It's called "Rétro" and is a collection of several rarely recorded standards. Here's an example, "So in Love", by Cole Porter.
12 years 10 months ago - 9 comments
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September is here and we are eager to tie in with colleges. I think with technology we could do some really great things! We work with the University of Delaware doing some things with their percussion department. We are in their syllabus…
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Man I love playing duets with David!!
13 years ago - 5 comments
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13 years ago - 6 comments
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I've fallen in love with the tune Recordame by Joe Henderson. I can play the chords and melody for the tune nicely and can improv it acceptably too. I've transcribed the melody for the intro section off the CD and I've gottem most of the…
13 years 1 month ago - 11 comments
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Here is our first EOTM by David Friedman. I'm hoping David will become our EOTM man. He has all these creative ways of playing scales and doing exercises. So let's see if we can get him to be our EOTM CEO. Here's the first one. This is a…
13 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
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My final lesson of TOTM-Fried Bananas is coming. But first consider this my final for the study. I worked hard on this tune. You know I've said it many times, I'm cool being a teacher on this site, however I also want to be a student. So…
12 years 11 months ago - 10 comments
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It has been ages since I posted any in the blog: last months have been enormously busy but ended with a nice holidaytrip to Scotland. With the added new cnc-machinery and after quite some programming we were able to speed up the building…
13 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
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I am always curious what people are practicing. THIS is how we learn by checking each other out! I worked on O grand Amor and finished up with really trying to play Anthropology and make it swing. My buddy Joe Magnarelli warms up with a…
13 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
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Here's a response to another letter I got with some questions!
13 years 1 month ago - 7 comments
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So, I played a gig with a new band this weekend and afterwards and during I got a million comments to the effective of, "wow, the vibes sound cool! You add some great color behind the soloists. I didn't know you could do that with vibes…
13 years 1 month ago - 3 comments
VIBES FOR SALE !
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My vibraphone is up for sale on ebay for cheap! check it out! http://cgi.ebay.com/Adams-Vibraphone-W-Field-Frame-No-Motor-CV2F-Vibes-…
13 years 1 month ago - 11 comments
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My first blog ever! I just got home from the Vibes workshop at the University of Delaware, and what a great time it was. Meeting David Friedman was terrific; what a genuine, warm person he is and how passionate about imparting his…
13 years ago - 2 comments
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Here's another clip from the Sunday brunch gig. I've had many conversations with other players about playing these types of gigs. For me, I really enjoy playing these kinds of gigs where the music is more background as opposed to a concert…
12 years 10 months ago - 7 comments
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Here's an audio/pdf supplement to the Major Surround Tones video I posted a few days ago. Pdf with exercies is attached. Behn
13 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
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So 2 great workshops this summer! I'm amazed at what how vibe players can grow in one week of hard work! It's really cool because I meet vibe players from all over the world now. It's all the same, you work hard you get better! I'm amazed…
13 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
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A few years ago, I did a lesson where I talked about minor surround tones. I feel like surround tones are often discussed over dominant and minor, but not major as often. So I decided to talk a little about how to surround chord tones on…
13 years 1 month ago - 4 comments
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