This is a nice clip in the recording studio featuring vibist Charlie Shoemake. I know that he did a stint with the George Shearing Quintet back in the day and is a great player you don't really hear that much about. He's with the Bill Holman Big Band with a typically awesome Holman chart on the tune "This I Dig Of You", written by Philly-born tenor man, the late Hank Mobley.

Here's a video of Dutch vibist Frits Landesbergen with Trio Rosenberg. Performing a great "Django" like tune!

NB: go to 1"20 to switch the dutch intro speach if you feel like! :o)

Smoking vibes solos and vibes/guitar discussions!

Enjoy!

Frits is one of the cats in Holland. A great player. He's also partners with Nico Vanderplas and they're now making the best vibraphones in the world. That is according to Joe Locke and John Piper. And Frits plays his 'you know what's' off. Check out this video.

If the vibes are half as good as Frits plays, look out.

I went to college and have a degree. However some of the best learning I did was off the street. Listening to musicians teach tunes to each other. That's a true lesson in analysis! Someone on a bandstand teaching a tune to a bass player in a about a minute. That always blew me away and I learned a ton from that.

Here is a brand new interview with Joe Locke on jazz.com for you to view.

http://www.jazz.com/features-and-interviews/2008/11/13/in-conversation-…

Chris Farr had did an online class tonight where he talked about Dominant Chords.

Here's the link to the video

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Chris is a monster sax player. Played with Maynard Ferfuson and Jill Scott just to name 2 groups. He's a Philly guy and is probably the best young tenor around here.

He'll talk Wed. about playing over dominant chords and how he approaches them. It's based on the lesson I have up here on Dominant Chords, the lesson is linked under 'Check this out'.

What is the common point between those three songs:
- Autumn Leaves
- Beyond the Sea
- I wish you love

N.B.: Tifoo, and maybe Pap, this one is too easy for you, please let some time for the others to answer! Thanks! :o)

Hopefully if this is after the Chris masterclass there will be a recording of it. If you don't see one, then email tony at tony@tonymiceli.com and check if there is one.

Here are 2 lessons for dominant chords.

Any jazz musician has been tripped up by the bridge of Rhythm Changes, the 4 dominant chords. It's easy to fake your way through the bridge and difficult to weave your way through the bridge.

Make sure you study dominant chords and scales and ways of getting through them!

I simply grouped to lessons that would be in two different places here for you to check out.

I have only been playing vibes for about a year. Before I started playing the vibes, I thought you just hit the vibes with the mallets and use the pedal to let it ring out or stop the sound. Since then I have learned about so many different playing techniques that I would never have imagined. For one thing, I never realized you could actually play the vibes with the pedal up.

Other techniques that I learned about are:

Mallet Dampening
Pitchbending
Hand Tremolo
Bowing
Echo emulation (ala Piper)
Spider Egg Sacks (or plastic bags) over resonators