Vibraphone

instead of learning how to play a song nice on 1 instrument, i´m stupid enough to try it on two simultan. this is fu**ing difficult to deal both instruments and the sustains, so i just put the malletkat sustain pedal under the vibes pedal, which makes it a little bit easier, cause if i press the vibes pedal i sustain both but it´s still hard enough for me.

i´m sorry for the many wrong notes and chords but i´m just very slowly getting used it. that was my best try out of many...

tarik

Hey,

I didn't think I would post so soon again. But then again : the more I post, the more I can get feedback, the more I can learn,...

I came a cross a simple excercise for 12bar blues on piano, so I thought, let's take this to the vibraphone.

After some practising I came at this. (I'm not even sure the chords are 100% OK)

P.S. a pitty, you can't hear it, but on the last chord, I even let it vibrate. :-)

greetings,
Stefan.

Margie Hyams, 91, a vibraphonist who played with bandleaders Woody Herman and George Shearing as well as with her own jazz trio in the 1940s, died Thursday of renal failure at Arcadia Methodist Hospital, said her daughter Lisa Ericsson. Born Aug. 9, 1920, in New York, Hyams played the vibes with Herman's First Herd in 1944 and '45, then formed a trio and also appeared with Mary Lou Williams and Charlie Ventura until 1949, when she was invited to join Shearing, the blind piano virtuoso.

Here's a promo video I did for a band I play with in Amsterdam.

my girlfriend thinks i´m totally crazy but i´m a little bit proud :)

it took some time and research to put the malletkat up like this above the vibes. in the end it´s an keyboard stand expansion for 19€. i think it´s the best setup to play both instrument like i want to do in some situations. but dealing all the footswitches and playing both instrument at the same time needs alot of practice...

tarik