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TOTM - Green Dolphin Street - Modal Practice

This is being translated for Chinese students.

歡迎來到www.vibesworkshop.com,我們正在討論我們的每月一曲Green Dolphin Street和You Don't Know What Love Is。我們做了很多這兩首曲子的影片教學,我已經說過很多關於這首歌,所以我有可能重複說些東西,但這真的是一首很值得學習的曲子,以下有兩個原因,第一點是因為曲子的前半都是調式音階(Modal),曲子的另一半不是。但是其實所有東西都是調式,但是這首Green Dolphin Street 的前一半絕對是調式音階(~Music~)。

Wind Family, String Family, Percussion Family, Keyboard Family

I had a talk with Stefon Harris a while ago. I don't think I've talked about it here yet.

The argument is this: The piano is part of the percussion family but percussionists don't learn piano. The piano is in a performing way, NOT part of the percussion family at all. It requires a lot of dedicated and unrelated skill and has moved out of the percussion family. Not how it's made of course, or the mechanisms that make the sound but in a performance way.

hip and back pain when playing vibraphone? Changing pedal technique

Hello all –

I was born with bad hips and as age I've had to become a bit more creative :-)

I was wondering if any vibe players ever have had hip and back pain while playing? I have found pedaling with my left foot and alternating with my right foot seems to help… Yes, unorthodox but I can make music.

Does anyone else have any tricks?