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Harmonized

"What Kind Of Fool Am I" by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Working on solo playing with reharm and voicings. Was playing through the Bill Evans version and got some nice ideas and wanted to try it out on the vibes.

Hi guys, today I'd like to show you one significant lick of Dave Samuels. It's taken from his song "Turnabout" (Here and now, Caribbean jazz project). Check out this record because it's simply gorgeous!
We will analyse in particular how he uses upper structures and double stops in octaves.

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Way Maker - this song was requested by a friend who asked me to record it. I added my own spin on it with some reharmonization. The lead sheet with reharm can be viewed and downloaded via the link in the video description.

See the attached PDF for notation.

Hello everyone. Here is a gem. This must be why we don't see vibes players in music videos...we gotta take a lesson from this guy!

And just to make sure my ears aren't tricking me...there is no vibraphone in this entire audio? x-D

Hi everyone,

I've been moving to Philadelphia for school and haven't had much time to finish these lessons, but I managed to piece this one together (apologies for the lack of visual aesthetic, I don't have a great setup here yet). I should be finishing up more soon (McCoy Tyner part 2, George Shearing, Benny Green, etc.)

"My Ship" by Kurt Weill. Working on this classic song for solo vibraphone with a focus on a number of areas including orchestration, dampening, reharm, voicings and counterpoint. A beautiful song with so many wonderful versions from many of the jazz greats.

"In My Life" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Some late night practice sight reading some songs from a Beatles fakebook. Good practice since many of the songs are in most of the sharp keys. This is one of my favorites. A legacy of so many memorable and well crafted tunes.

I have never used the vibration device in the past because I don't like that extreme wah-wah sound. Now a friend really wanted one of my folding frames, but with a vibration device (he plays stylistically like Milt Jackson).

So I did look into it after all.

While testing, I came up with the idea that you don't have to align the fans exactly in a row if they can be removed as easily as with my frame. Therefore, I arranged them in a rotationally offset manner.
Because I wanted a realistic statement for myself about the resulting sound, I recorded the test.