Beginner

Pat Metheny once said in an interview that playing arpeggios is great for your technique because they make you move quickly up and down your instrument. This etude gets you playing over the entire three octaves and will sharpen your accuracy. Choose your sticking carefully. Try out different combinations until you find the one that works for you.

I like to play it "dry" so I can hear each note separately, but you can add some pedaling if you like. Doing that will make the piece sound fuller.

A few errors I know. Sometimes I play it without fault. But if I do, they are not returning errors. Each time another note. I think it's the stress of ending it without errors that makes me make them.

I was really satisfied with this one (even with the errors) for the main reason that I was relaxed while playing.

P.S. 2 posts today, to end before I go on holiday. I didn't thought I could finish both, at a moment I thought I couldn't finish neither, but yesterday I regained confidence to post both of them.

(The other one is friedman etude n°6)

Hey,

I didn't think I would post so soon again. But then again : the more I post, the more I can get feedback, the more I can learn,...

I came a cross a simple excercise for 12bar blues on piano, so I thought, let's take this to the vibraphone.

After some practising I came at this. (I'm not even sure the chords are 100% OK)

P.S. a pitty, you can't hear it, but on the last chord, I even let it vibrate. :-)

greetings,
Stefan.

Hey,

What I'm posting here, is an improvisation I've been using for the last months simply to warm myself up, before actually doing lessons, or studying things. I'm a bit done with it, so as a closure, so to say, I'll post one.

It all began with the tune 'I'm still here' from Tom Waits in my head. (O yeah, I'm a huge Waits fan, so it's not the last time you'll hear me talking of him.) For those who don't know this song, here is a link.

I'm still here

I hope I did OK. Feedback is welcome so I know on what to work.

greetings
Stefan

Hey,
a couple of days ago, I hit by accident a combination I thought was interesting. It led to this.

I hope you like it.
Stefan,

Hello,

So after a zillion of takes I finally got one I dare to share. :-) You see I get nervous if I know people can hear me. especially playing sheetmusic, not so much when I improvise.

I started using the metronome with this one, because I was really lazy regarding speed. It was really confronting. Not only was I waaaaaay to slow, but I had no steady rhytm. the parts I knew I played too quick, the one I had problems with, too slow. and when done I just said : "there, I can play it".
I definetly need to continue on using it.