Vibraphone

Creating Your Own Etudes Pt.1 by Behn Gillece

Quick and Dirty Video = QDV

Learn the lick! 

record post what you do with this exercise. 

In fact I'll give a free 45 minutes lesson to the first beginning student that plays this through  all the keys in time.

offer expires September 1, 2022

hey y'all,

If you haven't heard about this book, check this out. 

There is a lineage of books here, a tree. 

It all starts with Zen and Art or Archery, goes to 'The Inner Game of Tennis' (great great book to read)

Goes to, 'Zen and Art or Motorcycle Maintenance'

'Effortless Mastery' I think comes from this tree of books. They are all great and Kenny's book is great. 

I sometimes cop Balafon patterns to work on. I love listening to Balafon players and checking out their independence. 

Check out this video: 

In the beginning somewhere he plays this pattern. I don't take them down stricktly, because they vary them. 

smokin!!!!!!!

Every now and then, we talk about the use of vibes outside the context of jazz.

I just became aware yesterday that this track, which includes the first recorded tracks I did with Miss Magnolia (my Deagan Imperial), was released a few years ago.  They had asked for a “vintage sound”, so my thought was to go with her, some old Albright mallets, and a pair of tube based mics.   
 

I want to do more of this.  :)

I'm interested if anyone knows about the history of dampening -- who did it, who didn't, who was the first to do it, etc. After watching lots of videos of great vibraphonists, I can see Milt Jackson did it quite a bit, especially on ballads (probably part of why his phrasing is so incredible), and pretty much every vibes player today I looked at does it to some extent (Tony+David obviously, but also Stefon, Warren, etc.), but I can't find videos where Lionel Hampton or Terry Gibbs do. Not a value judgement at all, I'm just interested in seeing how dampening has developed.