Check out some great comping and soloing from Ed on vibes and some other great musicians.
The next "traditional" vibe hang is April 3 from 12-2 East Coast USA time.
I would LOVE to get more people involved. If we have to go longer than 2, then fine. You guys are posting videos and audios, so I know some of you can try this. You can use a web cam on your computer if you want. That will work ok with your computer mic.
In fact I have a bigger plan in mind… to have a whole day online music performance with vibes players from all over the world!!
Look under 'Check This Out' for the link to the PDF of this lesson.
Joe Locke rockin' some Billy Joel and talking about choosing tunes.
Check out these cool Joe Locke Intros.
Go Paga!
Here's a Russian quartet performing a smoooking version of Paganini Caprice n°24 in St Petersburg. Man those guys can swiiinng!!
After a cool piano intro, you'll get around 1'45 to the heart of the tune with vibes on melody/solo. If I well remember we recently saw a performance of this vibist with 5 mallets!... Well I def. think he's more impressive with one 2!!
I hope "Paga" doesn't mind too much for this little 'variation' of style on his piece ;o)
Man I dig it! :o)
Enjoy!
- M
Here's Behn's chord melody of Bye Bye Blackbird. The videos are coming, but meanwhile practice his chord melody.
Again I left the chord symbols out, you can put them in. That's your homework assignment. :-)
This is a great lesson. Just go through all the tunes you know see where you can put this. Pull out the real book, whatever!
Also check out Behn's comping. He plays really clear rhythms IMHO.