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Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be playing with Ken Fowser's group at Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia on Dec. 20th, Saturday night at 11:30. Please stop by if you have a chance. Here is the lineup:

Ken Fowser- tenor sax
Behn Gillece- vibraphone
Luke O'Reilly- piano
Adam Cote- bass
Pepe Merolla- drums

Thanks,

Behn

Here are a bunch of lessons on licks. There's also a lot of talk about licks on this site, players have different opinions of them as you'll see if you look around.

Here's an article of Ed's from PAS.

A few months ago I started transcribing John Mark Piper's tune "Spring Valley Kids". I didn't get any further with the transcription but every once in a while I play a few measures of it on my vibes. I recorded my jam on that tune. After you listen to my version, listen to the Master's performance (link above). I am floored every time I listen to it.

Barry

Check out Ed's lead sheet for Day's Gone By

Here's Ed's Lead Sheet

In a lot of my tunes lately, I have been using mallet 4 for the melody, which is not the normal stick for the Miceli grip, which I use. I have been doing a lot of 3 note chords/arpeggios with mallets 1,2,3. This is another example of me using mallet 4 for the melody (I think I am playing it a little too fast).

I referenced Tony's intro to his grip in the "Check This Out", above. He talks about how different grips lead towards different styles of playing.

Barry

Here is a little piece of music(see attachment) from a theater show I'm doing n Januari. This is a short introuction to the third part of the show. I thought this would be a good exercise for sticking.

A lot of guys are always asking: "What sticking should I use?" The thing with sticking is that you can always do it in a lot of ways.

Malletech announced a new vibraphone that allows manual tremolo using your foot (is manual the right word?).

http://thevibe.net/smf/index.php?topic=1120.0

Looks interesting.

Gavin has a great write-up on it:
http://gavinmcgraw.blogspot.com/

Barry