Just playing around with all this. I still want to transcribe a Gyil solo.
This is a little difficult for me. 
I know this was posted on the Virtual Vibraphone Day of Percussion, but I thought it might not have been available to all Vibeworkshoppers. I wanted to demonstrate playing "Scrapple" solo, comping the melody and playing a solo, concentrating on clear melodic lines and consistent time; a tremendous challenge to all who attempt solo vibraphone playing, especially playing a bebop tune and making it swing.
PRACTICING SOLO VIBRAPHONE - JOBIM'S CHEGA DE SAUDADE
Link to download the full text of this post: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0TwrpqjL6dQeV9vQUktV2xLRFE/edit?usp=s…
Link to download the accompanying music examples: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0TwrpqjL6dQeF9OTWNud2lhbjg/edit?usp=s…
Lesson with ideas for working on Major7#5 chords. A good place to start if, like me, you feel like you don't always have much to play over them.
Practicing solo vibraphone today on Body & Soul. A few things that I was thinking about during this practice session included: enhancing the harmony via added tensions, Upper Structure Triads and a variety of voicings, varying the harmony with chord substitutions, staccato articulation via deadstrokes, incorporating dampening as a means of adding to the variety of articulation as well as helping to make the counterpoint sound clean, varying the four mallet techniques.
Here are two exercises i did today. We should make a database of cool Warm Up Phrases (WUP's) :-)
