Vibraphone

For me, the best caravan vibes solo on youtube till now.

this was a hard one for me. i practiced it over 1 week now and here´s the result. the B-part with the octaves was almost impossible when i first tried it. but after one day and the hate of my girlfriend and neighbours repeating the same thing REAL slow and over and over again it worked. on the head i used mostly block chords from the drop 2 book.

i also tried to play around with my 2 cameras (one is a webcam) but i couldn´t make the sound synchron to the webcam...don´t know why(stupid computers)so i just leave it this way.

hope you like it!

tarik

Hi everybody...I thought it's time to post a video here, since i'm always watching inspiring videos of the great colleagues here!...

It's a composition of mine called 'French Song'.
Although there is nothing like a french character to it anymore, since the piece developed into something else, i kept the original title...

It's written in 5/4...hope you like it ;-)

Mario over at alternate mode has developed a MIDI drum head. Pretty cool huh? I'll get him to tell us more about it ASAP. He's really working up some pretty cool things.

We've talked a lot about sitting and playing. I've done it before. Last night I sat for the whole gig. I was using my old M-55 which is my lowest instrument. This bar stool was a little high but ok. I felt great playing like that. It was very comfortable. No problems at all playing. I just sat because the stool was right behind me. It wasn't planned.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Hey everybody.

First post of 2011, so happy new year!

Just before Christmas, I had a letter to say I'd been offered a place to study Jazz Vibes at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from September 2011. Needless to say I replied accepting the place in seconds!

While I've had an incredible time, I'm now anxious to get home and back into my grind. I definitely miss all the work I put into the site, and especially all of you guys. Although, these days I'm certainly checking things out via an Ipad, Iphone and Macbook. So it's not that bad huh?

This is certainly paradise, hanging out practicing and reading all day. I stay up every night until about 3am just to read and check out the ocean. Add to that a couple of Dutch neighbors who like to swim naked and visually it's incredible here!

I had the great pleasure to see the Christian McBride band a couple of days ago, featuring vibist Warren Wolf. I got to know Warren casually about ten years ago when he was finishing up at Berklee, and I haven't had the chance to hear him play again until now. I knew, just from reading his name here and there that he was doing well and getting a reputation as a strong player, so I was looking forward to the performance.

I just finished practicing and was heading out to a gig and I saw this sunset. For me I had never seen a sunset like this. It was so inspiring.

btw - I personally think we should all document our lives and travels as vibe players, talk about our gigs, post cool photos and videos and really make a record of it all. I'm still blown away by Gary's articles and photos that he's posted. I wish more of the heavy pros would really post their history here.

What could be more inspiring than for all of us to see all of our worlds, what we're up to and what we're doing.