Improvising on this classic with a focus on incorporating deadstrokes, ghost notes, accents, dynamics, varied sticking and dampening to enhance the line, phrasing and time feel. The vibraphone can be a difficult instrument in terms of playing it with expression and getting subtleties and nuance from it.

There is a good book called Develop Sight Reading which is great for reading as well as working on these musical elements since the pieces have a lot of phrase markings, dynamics and include many passages with varied articulation. Highly recommended.

Hey Vibes Workshop

Hey Vibes Workshop

A little Sunday night practice on John Coltrane’s classic composition “Giant Steps”. Played this last night as a bossa on the gig with Mark. Always a fun night at Li’s playing with Mark and hanging on the breaks.

New song titled "Soliloquy" written over the past few days. It can be viewed and downloaded via googledocs. Here's the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18tJ5txaGNrKGHm4pxncoudi5orIEYTnP/view

There were some gigs for us, back in the day! But who's that playing the vibes? A bear?

來聽聽這些鐵琴手的演奏，然後選一個你最喜歡的，並且想想為什麼喜歡。然後繼續找別的你喜歡的鐵琴手，慢慢建立清單。

Mike Mainieri

Mike演奏時非常有音樂性，注意他的棒法，非常特別。

Gary Burton

Gary是鐵琴中非常重要的人物，去看看他年輕時演奏的影片，這個影片是1960年代拍的，至今已經快60年了，還是沒有人能超越他。

Here's something to work on before I see you all.

Hey Taiwan students, if you're new to the vibraphone, watch Chien Chien's series on Dampening you will find it here.

https://www.vibesworkshop.com/latestpostsChloe

Practice this and make sure you can dampen at least a C major scale.
在台灣營隊開始之前，先練習 C 大調音階的止音技巧。