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Dampening on the Vibraphone

Dampening on the Vibraphone - "You Must Believe In Spring" composed by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Playing the melody on this beautiful song with a focus on using a variety of dampening techniques throughout the clip. Techniques include two hand dampening as well as one hand dampening techniques using Slide Dampening and Hand Dampening.

Good Vibes Radio Update, December 2017

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Hi All,
Tune in on Sunday, December 3rd at 8:00p eastern for the next edition of Good Vibes.
You know all those good feelings you have during the winter holidays? Vibes player Jay Hoggard wants us to keep "Christmas Vibes All Through the Year," James Shipp makes his debut on GV with clarinetist Anat Cohen on her new album, "Happy." Dave Stryker and Steve Nelson team up on their new album, Strikin' Ahead. Warren Wolf, Joe Locke, Hendrik Meurkens, Terry Gibbs, Gary Burton have some great music to share with you, and many others.

"Stardust" - Solo Vibes

Stardust - Revisiting this classic composed by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Mitchell Parish. Here's one of the versions that I came up with today while doing a little practicing at home. Throughout the clip, I incorporated some voicings covered in my new book "Voicing Concepts for the Jazz Vibist" now available from Amazon. Having fun trying out some different voicings and a little reharm here and there. Putting the book together and coming up with the concepts and examples helped my playing in terms of expanding my voicing vocabulary.