Vibraphone

Our first Pop Up Class! We studied Green Dolphin Street!!!!

I pick a time announce it, which ever subscribers can make it, we study something and then we perform! That is is Pop Up Class!

Here is our performance!

I tried some recordings using my malletkat and my vibe with audacity.

Stay healthy!
Paul

"Everything Happens To Me" - Exploring on the vibraphone while playing over the piano track.

Always a work in progress but also fun at the same time.

Man, I think he gets it, totally. This is really some amazing marimba playing! IMHO

'Infant Eyes' through my eyes, incorporating the MalletStation with vibes and adding a groove to the well known piece by Wayne Shorter. This has been a pretty intense creative process: I was surprised to welcome Beethoven in it and it made me kind of emotional to realize that my teenage memories of Pink Floyd were still so vivid, awaiting an opportunity to be manifested!

This weekend at the first-ever online vibes bootcamp, David Friedman spoke about the importance of following the movement of the bassline and the harmonies when choosing chords for My Funny Valentine (and the same goes for many other tunes). That reminded me of a lesson Tony posted back in 2011, but it was audio only so I made this video to show at the vibes coffeehouse.

Pretty self-explanatory. Tony thought there weren't enough gongs on my last post.

Well... gong solo this time.

Need I say more?

My apologies to Juan Tizol. It was a great tune before this happened.

Recently purchased the Late Night mallets which arrived today. The heads are larger than I expected, which makes them a tad unwieldy, but used them for a while and I think I'll get used to them. Its sure nice to play my vibes with the resonators on in my apartment and not worry about volume. Btw; they sound amazing on suspended cymbal! These will be my go to mallets for orchestral cymbal work. No impact; just the sound of the swell. I'm sure they'll sound nice on low end marimba too.