Vibraphone

I gig a couple nights a week with a quartet loosely modeled after the great MJQ. However, the piano play of the group plays nothing like the great John Lewis. His playing is erratic, he is all over the harmony, melody, and the bass. During my solos he often plays "counter melodies" that disrupt my thinking and my lines. At times I'll pause in order to leave some space and he fills it. If I start of slow, with whole or half notes, he fills up the space with some kind of scalar run. It seems odd to me and I'm thinking that this isn't what the music is supposed to sound like.

Hey guys,

Vic Firth put up another clip of mine on their Podcast Page. This is a trio version of my original composition Pure Spirit. Matt Wilson is on drums and David Clark is on bass. Here's the link: http://www.vicfirth.com/podcasts/concert.php

There is also a nice clip of marimbist Pius Cheung also on the same podcast page.

The lead sheet of Pure Spirit can be downloaded from my website.

Best,

Ed

I thought I posted this already. But check out Mike Blake!

Wow!! I've never seen anything like this.

This is a movie I shot when I was in Philly in August 2007 I was doing some stuff with Tony at the University Of The Arts and at the end of the lesson I asked Tony to play a tune, this is the result totally on the spot performance and its great even though Tony did'nt think so and guess what later that evening we went out for something to eat and Tony being the perfectionist that he is gives me a cd of the same tune he recorded in the interim man you have to love this guy.Hope you all enjoy this, should also mention as this was recorded with the camera mic the audio is not the best quality

Hello All,
I wanted to post to say hello to everyone on that subscribes to this site. Quite frankly this is possible the coolest website I have ever come across. A sense of community is present and the information exchange is awesome. Above all, we can all help each other to become better players and teachers. I am happy there is a place for vibists to hang or just check out others work.

All the Best to you and yours,

Timothy

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Ed talks about four note groupings, great for your lines.

Oh man this is sooo cool! I can't resist!

For those who were in Sassenheim (and those were not too!), here is an excerpt from a CD just about to be released, of a cool reggae group of young musicians from Berlin. And among them is our dear little Charly on vibes!!!

I love this music, clean, well written, with a powerful singer, and where the vibes found his place... very cleverly!

Go Charly!... And we want to hear more very soon!!

:o)

- Marie

PS: how many degres in the recording room? ;o)

Here's a great video from a new site we'll be launching very soon. It's over at www.worlddrum.studymusiconline.com. Todd Isler is the instructor, he's a great percussionist and drummer.

He has a book out in our store called 'You Can Ta Ka Di Mi This'. The book is here: www.store.studymusiconline.com/you-can-ta-ka-di-mi-improve-and-expand-y…

Here's a great video on the book by Todd.