Vibraphone

"'Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk - After 43 straight years of teaching at Berklee, I'm officially on a sabbatical for the upcoming Fall semester. My sabbatical project is the recording of videos that feature solo vibraphone techniques along with the application of improvisational concepts from my 4 volume series The Complete Guide To Improvisation. Some of the concepts in this clip include the application of Upper Structure Triads, the Symmetrical Diminished scale and the Pentatonic b2 scale.

I am honored to have been a part of this beautiful project.

"Deborah's Theme" by Ennio Morricone. A beautiful theme from the movie "Once Upon A Time In America". This is an arrangement that I wrote for my upcoming book Pedaling and Dampening for the Vibraphone. I loved the theme when I heard it and so many others of the great composer. The piece involves a variety of dampening techniques that will be covered in the book including slide dampening, hand dampening and pivot dampening. Much of the exercises, etudes and pieces are written and I just started to chip away at the text. Fun but challenging stuff.

I restructured my website bilingually and started a new "Do It Yourself" - section.
A first DIY tutorial is creating pickups for mallet instruments.
www.wyndorps.de

Good luck!

Hi vibes lovers,
today i'd like to talk about a way of thinking the keyboard that completely change my perception of the instrument.
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"A Place in Time" - solo vibraphone version of a new song inspired by two of my favorite composers - Ennio Morricone who wrote the theme for the movie "Cinema Paradiso" and Luis Bacalov who wrote the theme for "Il Postino". The song has some unexpected harmonic twists and was a bit of a challenge to pull off in terms of keeping it consistent and maintaining the mood of the piece.

Short excerpt from a practice session yesterday playing “Solar” which is a 12 bar blues. One of the ways I like to practice is to play non stop with sort of a “stream of consciousness” approach with little planned as possible. Sometimes some good stuff and sometimes not so much. Ha!Ha!

Translation for Chinese students 中文翻譯:
CYDT 是Can You Do This 縮寫，
這個系列都會有一些小小的有趣練習可以挑戰。

這一集我們來做一些關於音階的練習：
影片中，Tony以F大調音階開始，
內棒兩隻還是演奏原來的音階進行，
左手外棒的部分，加入了在音階中的三度和聲進行，
（聽聽看Tony的示範）

試試看把同樣的觀念運用在任何你知道的音階上面，
例如影片中的：diminished scale

這個練習可以幫助我們：
1.改善只用外棒演奏單旋律的習慣
2.在演奏單旋律的線條時，也能夠加入一些和聲的色彩

Tony說剛開始的時候，他沒辦法一次做到，
花了幾天的時間才完成 ;
因為很久沒做這個練習，
現在有些生疏，所以他有空時也會繼續持續這個練習，
讓自己的腦袋持續保有豐富的點子！

我們也來試試吧！

I THINK I SAY DAMPEN I MEAN PEDAL!!!!!!!!
中文翻譯:
CYDT 是Can You Do This 縮寫，
這個系列都會有一些小小的有趣練習可以挑戰。

這集來說說踏板止音，
我們來試試，左手演奏四分音符（影片中Tony以C大調為例，左手演奏G C）
右手來演奏旋律，並專注在旋律上，目的是以思考旋律為基礎，來使用踏板止音，
演奏出乾淨的旋律線條。

你可以觀察看看，在做這個練習的時候，是不是自然而然的多以左手的和聲來思考，
運用踏板，如果是的話，先以慢速開始，大腦會慢慢知道我們的目的是要聽到乾淨的旋律線條，
多做幾次這個練習後，就可以自然而然的達到這個目的囉！