Hi!
I've been chatting whith Marie recently and I had to promise her to put some pics of my little son playing vibes on the site. He and his mother are using my vibes in two ways: as table for baby clothing and other (leightweight) stuff…
I thought you guys might like to see this. I've been using these mallets for about 3 or 4 months and they are great! Much lighter than the old ones and I'm able to play 4 mallets way easier. They last a really long time as well. Stefon…
Hello everybody! This morning I had a go at Mean to Me, which for me is a tough tune to play. I think every jazz soloist of the swing and bebop eras has recorded that song : Bird, Sonny Stitt, Rollins, Dizzy, Frank Rosolino, Getz, Joe Pass…
I see two-mallet players comping all the time, but all the instructional material calls for at least three mallets.
I've seem people hit the same note an octave apart, put a full step in between, etc. I also read about the third/seventh…
Hi all,
Here is a 4 measure bebop line. By practicing this in 12 keys, it should really help to recognize the guide tones of the chords. It also covers good vocabulary on a common progression (I-vi-ii-V). Pdf is attached. Enjoy!
Behn
Well, apparently I led a good life because the only explanation for the performance I've just seen is that I've died and gone to heaven :-). I'm just back from seeing Ed Saindon and Joe Locke perform in duo, and I'm blown away. Going with…
Hello fellow vibes players. I've been posting a lot of detailed lessons with PDFs the last few weeks, but something I've also been intending to do is just jump on once in a while and share a little idea of something that I find helpful, so…
Life has gotten in the way of my music interests but I still try to get to my music room a couple of times a week.
Monday evening I thought I'd randomly pick a tune from some random book laying about and site read the tune. The booked I…
Get on your computer and check out David Friedman and Bob Becker this Wed., August 3, 2011 at 6pm! UTC/GMT -5 hours
We will be live from the University of Delaware.
You're welcome to come to the University of Delaware and hang with us, in…
Here is the 3rd part of a lesson series on Building a Voicing Vocabulary. This lesson, like the others, is intended to be listened to after having read the PDF which accompanies it.
-Tyler
I shot some video tonight which is going to be used in future Percussion Geeks episodes. I thought I'd give some of you a sneak preview sneak on of the performers was playing a Gyil which is the ancient ancient ancestor to the vibes/…
I've recently discovered an excellent new software product for music notation that (I think) competes favorably with the expensive packages like Sibelius and Finale. It's called Muse Score and it is distributed as a free download. You can…
This is the lady to whom we are eternally grateful, Karyn Posner-Mullen from the American Embassy here in Ireland, she has been so good to us for the past two years and came to our vibe hang and loved it. She is pictured here with her…
