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Good Vibes March 2021
gloria krolak
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Hi All, Good Vibes, the first and only broadcast program to feature the vibraphone, will air on March 7, 2021 and March 10, 2021. Details below. I wish Joe Locke and Stefon Harris happy March birthdays by playing Joe's "The Shadow of Your…
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So What improv
Gordon Cortney
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My first attempt at improvising using chord tones. I really had no idea how to comp over this tune.
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This is great.
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I’ll Remember April in Bb using my Mallet Kat and Boss RC-3 loop pedal as accompaniment.
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Key of C Improv
Gordon Cortney
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My first attempt at posting to VW! I am new to jazz vibes, but I have experience playing jazz drumset and classical percussion.
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The EPK for this group came up on my Facebook feed. Joe Locke sounds great, as always.
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My first attempt at improvising using chord tones. I really like this tune and I thought I would give it a try.
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Hey everyone, I'm starting a new series on solo vibes arranging, where in the first part, I'll give an arrangement in the form of sheet music, and in the second part, I'll walk through it, note by note, explaining why and how I'm picking…
5 years 1 month ago - 7 comments
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Steve Roehm Vibes JT Bates Drums Chris Bates Bass A moment underneath my deck in Minnesota this past fall. We're playing a tune of mine called "Cluster Cuss". I'm joined by the amazing Bates brothers.
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You guys are doing great. It's what I wanted. It's really fun to work with people who do the work. It's gratifying and I teach but I can also learn from you guys. I will do more of these!!!!
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Steve Roehm Vibes JT Bates Drums Chris Bates Bass A moment underneath my deck in Minnesota this past fall. We're playing a tune of mine called "Cluster Cuss". I'm joined by the amazing Bates brothers.
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Vibes chord progressions, homework fron Tony.
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Blue Bossa Improv
Gordon Cortney
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My first attempt at improvising using chord tones.
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Harmonic Minor lesson
hairisawesome
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Here's a short video of me talking about a few different basic harmonic minor ideas and tonalities. I talk about the scale, go over the chord definitions and chord scales/voicings, and then spend a little time on a short loop play-along…
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Friedman 18
hairisawesome
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Here's a short clip of me playing the 18th etude from David Friedman's Vibraphone book. Please excuse the unintended cluster at the beginning of the 4 mallet section!
5 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
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Hey everyone, I'm starting a new series on solo vibes arranging, where in the first part, I'll give an arrangement in the form of sheet music, and in the second part, I'll walk through it, note by note, explaining why and how I'm picking…
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I remember April
David Friedman
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I realise there'a already a video of mine on "Recent Activity", but I just saw that "I remember April" is the tune of the month, so, since I have quite a bit of free time at the moment....don't we all? OK..Tony doesn't.....He's teaching…
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This is important stuff. You know I think the Mallet Station might be a decent entry level controller, however as SOON as you get serious, It will not even hang a little bit with the MalletaKat, that's my take so far. But as an entry…
5 years 1 month ago - 11 comments
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Trying to emulate a stride kind of style. Not 100% happy with it, but I want to steal the ballad staccato stride feel pianists do sometimes.
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At one of the weekly vibe hangs I demonstrated my MIDI Vibes. Becky was curious about using an Arpeggiator. Mac MainStage 3 has a bunch of Arpeggiator instruments so I decided to try out a couple and do some free improv with them. Enjoy,…
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This is a solo arrangement of I'll Remember of April that I have been working on. I posted it in the group thread, but it kind of got lost in the shuffle, so I am reposting here. I find it more difficult than other tunes to play solo, so…
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Like a lot of folks on here, I've been working on I'll Remember April. Since Tony has issued his usual challenge, here's a practice tape attempting to blow over the tune in 12 keys. I used the iReal Pro accompaniment to give my brain and…
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