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“Solo Reflection” – A new song for solo vibraphone that I just finished composing (with a nod to the great Italian composer Ennio Morricone). One of my favorite melodies from Maestro Morricone is his theme from the movie “Cinema Paradiso”. The clip features some solo vibraphone techniques that will be covered in the book that I’ve been working on. It’s going to take some time since it will be a very big project. Meanwhile, my book “Voicing Concepts for the Jazz Vibist” (available from Amazon) does have some related topics in the way of voicings, chord melody and reharmonization techniques.

Putting 4 mallets to a well written melody is a great way to work on 4 mallets! Also putting melodies to other lines, your solos, other melodies is also great.

The concept is how do you put accompaniment to your playing right?

So let's study this for a bit and see what happens, how this helps you.

Over the last few weeks, I've been recording some xmas carols on facebook for my grandson to enjoy listening to, by way of his mom sharing the video (he's only 9 months old!). :) This was the last. Hope everyone is well and enjoys the holiday!

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Hello Tony & Online Vibe Community- I am a member, but not a subscriber. However, I am offering to share the following with the Online Vibe Community. Post this if you wish.

Gary Miller (gmstxfour)

Mini-concert of 3 classics:
• Corcovado (Jobim)
• Gentle Rain (Luiz Bonfá)
• How Insensitive (Jobim)

Solo version of "But Beautiful" with voicings from my book Voicing Concepts for the Jazz Vibist available on Amazon. The book contains a written out chorus of the melody along with voicings, notated mallet dampening and reharm.

A quick & dirty video of a tune I haven't played for a long time. A couple friends were killing on this last night at the local jazz club so I wanted to relearn it!

This 4-mallet balafon improvisation, from my CD “The Turning,” marks my first attempt to use 4 heavy balafon mallets to fire up groove and energy in 4/4. The 4-mallet approach on the more ancient instrument inspired the idea to incorporate other mallets on vibes, beginning my experimentation with leather-headed mallets custom made in India (my “3 ballads” post tells more of the leather mallet story). To build the Woodwork arrangement, I layered wood-related percussion including cajon, cascara (sticks), clave and seed pods.