Vibraphone

Hello Everyone, here's Part Two of the Four Note Groupings article which will be appearing in the upcoming June issue of the Percussive Arts Society magazine Percussive Notes. This article addresses the use of four note groupings on Dom 7 chords as well as the application of the four note grouping concept on two choruses of Stella by Starlight. Thanks to Gustavo for putting the music examples into Finale.

Hello everyone, still uploading videoclips from a recent quartet gig that featured Rick DiMuzio on sax, Mark Walker on drums, Bruno Raberg on bass and me on vibes. Here's one that we just uploaded. Ed

This is hysterical.

THE MAY 16TH VIBE HANG IS CANCELLED. I HAD A DEATH IN THE FAMILY AND HAVE TO GO OUT OF TOWN THIS WEEKEND. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED

Well I finished my little series on the melodic minor scale. I think I'm going to do one on the harmonic minor also. Although I need to study that one first a little more.

Behn is coming over Wednesday to shoot more lessons and I have some more planned as well.

I want to get into writing some more serious etudes, so I'm thinking about that as well. I'm just not sure whether to write the etude over the changes to a tune or make it up all new.

Just letting everyone know that more is on the way.

This piece, a sarabande from Sonata IV in D minor, is a slow thoughtful piece and a good 4 mallet exercise. Use the 4 mallets for melody lines as well the block chords. For instance, in bar 6 you’ll find it handy to use 4 to play the wide intervals in the line. The same approach should be used in bar 23 where the melody line jumps around a lot.

NOTA: the live video I had attached has been removed... I'm so sorry about that. So I relink the studio version... beautiful too.

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Oh man...

I had just started discovering Stefon Harris' music last week. And today Joe Doubleday linked this vid on his Face Book... This tune is already one of my fav on studio...

Oh man check out the intro, and his two mallet solo... (together of course with his compadres great interpretations!)

Oh man... oh man... the power of two mallets and a big soul!

- M

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