Check out Chet's scat solo. I love it. Sounds exactly like he's playing trumpet.
This is a really nice work for solo vibes. Originally written by Hector Villa-Lobos for voice and cellos, this is just one in a series of pieces that were an attempt freely to adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music.
The accompaniment is often just arpeggios, so let them ring. You'll need to mallet dampen the melody at several strategic places. The goal, as always, is to have the piece sound as full and clean as possible. Fullness comes from leaving the pedal down a lot, and cleanliness comes from pedaling and dampening in all the right places.
Dana has a GREAT music room!
OH man, this is pretty incredible. Wait until you check this out.
It's only rare these days that I write anything in this blog, merely because most things that are happening here are just common stuff.
At the moment tho, lots is happening here in the company. We're reorganizing to cope with the huge increased market and specially the demand for the gigVibe model. Reorganizing is in terms of company structure, machinery/workshop structure and simplifying/standardizing the current models, investing in new machines.
I have the final lesson coming of our TOTM. The thing is there have been so many heavy videos going up that I thought I should chill on the TOTM and let all this great stuff through. It's been the Burton Lessons, the Friedman lessons, Ed Saindon performing. This is great stuff, and I've been learning a ton from checking out these cats so I assume you guys are as well.
I have the last lesson the 'Putting it all Together' lesson planned and I'll post it soon.
Hello everyone,
Here's another clip which was just uploaded to YouTube. Billy sounds great on alto as on clarinet and Thomas is swinging like crazy. However, I might have had too much coffee before the gig. Ha!Ha!
I just saw a smokin' version of Tony (with bassist Tony Marino who also sounds fantastic) playing this tune a few days ago. Tony's lines and swing feel are beautiful. All The Things You are is one of those tunes that everyone plays. Keith Jarrett has recorded it a number of times.
This lesson will be more valuable after you learn the tune! - Tony Miceli
Here's David performing 'Everything I Love', the lesson will be up soon!
Especially check out the left hand and the counter lines. Think about the harmony and how David is representing it in the left hand. This is a really interesting and great study for all of us. - Tony Miceli
Hey guys,