Vibraphone

Enjoying a nice semester break from Berklee with more available time to shed. It's important for me to keep practicing and try to move forward, learn and improve. As a musician, I feel that if we stop evolving, growing and learning, we stagnate and even move backwards. There are a lot of things in my playing that I want to tweak and more fully develop. This clip shows a little of what I was working on the other day. The clip is comprised of four brief excerpts from a practice session playing Coltrane's Countdown. (My apology for the microphone cord being in the clip.

On a semester break from Berklee and in the shed today working on Thelonious Monk's classic tune "Ask Me Now". Joe (Locke) had brought this tune with him when he visited a few weeks ago. We had played this with Joe on vibes and myself on piano. Joe was burning from beginning to end while I comped on piano. It's a great tune for the "four to the bar" left hand comping that I'm utilizing here in the clip. I was also working on trying to keep the left hand groove going while incorporating two hand runs (using alternate strokes and combination strokes). It's a work in progress.

Any vibe resolutions out there?

Mine is to learn a bunch of the songs I have forgotten.

Hi Guys this month I'd like to talk a bit about the blues.
This is a lesson for beginners that want to approach the blues form!

If you have any question please leave them in the comment below or write me an e-mail: giovanniperin87@gmail.com

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Hi Guys this month I'd like to talk a bit about the blues.
This is a lesson for beginners that want to approach the blues form!

If you have any question please leave them in the comment below or write me an e-mail: giovanniperin87@gmail.com

Please remember to subscribe my youtube channel and like my page on Facebook!!!
www.giovanniperin.com

Hi Guys this month I'd like to talk a bit about the blues.
This is a lesson for beginners that want to approach the blues form!

If you have any question please leave them in the comment below or write me an e-mail: giovanniperin87@gmail.com

Please remember to subscribe my youtube channel and like my page on Facebook!!!
www.giovanniperin.com

Practicing Green Dolphin Street.
Rusty

A chord voicing lesson for the first section of On Green Dolphin Street.
Happy Holidays.
Rusty

On a semester break working on this beautiful song composed by the late Kenny Wheeler, a wonderful musician and composer who left us in September of 2014. I just learned about this song last week from Joe (Locke) who was here for a visit. Of course Joe played it unbelievably and in a way only he could. It's a beautiful song but somewhat tricky to improvise on melodically and make the changes. Here's my first stab at it.

Happy Holidays!

Ed