Hey tony, I'm curious as to what type of music you compose and what it sounds like. Can you post some of it?!
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone had to deal with blisters. Once in a while I get a blister on the index finger of my right hand because of the rubbing of the mallet against my finger.
My main problem: sweaty hands + friction + Burton grip = blister.
I know callosity is common for conga players and that they use some kind of tape to protect their fingers and hands.
Usually I apply a Compeed blister plaster for prevention. Unfortunately I was too late this time so I have to deal with that lump on my finger again.
I was just thinking. (That's where my dad would say 'How did it feel?'.
I spent last night jamming with a bass player. We took some tunes got together and put them through a bunch of keys. I said to him I liked doing this with 'just the 2 of us' because if there were other players they'd be off to the side playing the new keys while I was soloing.
And then bam!!! Why not do this live, and you guys play along. You won't bother me, because I can't here you. We'd pick the songs and you guys would play along. Play the root of the chords, play the chords, play whatever you want.
In a lot of my tunes lately, I have been using mallet 4 for the melody, which is not the normal stick for the Miceli grip, which I use. I have been doing a lot of 3 note chords/arpeggios with mallets 1,2,3. This is another example of me using mallet 4 for the melody (I think I am playing it a little too fast).
I referenced Tony's intro to his grip in the "Check This Out", above. He talks about how different grips lead towards different styles of playing.
Barry
Ok, guys after all you guys harrassing me about this here it finally is, my blog about Mike Mainieri...
Ok, so the first views of the master where at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam. A very nice jazzclub in Amsterdam. He was playing with a dutch trio led by Marnix Busstra(on Guitar) together with Eric van der Westen on Bass and Pieter Bast on Drums. A very good trio, which I had never seen before.
The concert was also the release of the cd they just recorded. They have recorded before in a more electrical setting, but this cd is just acoustic trio with Mike on Vibes.
Malletech announced a new vibraphone that allows manual tremolo using your foot (is manual the right word?).
http://thevibe.net/smf/index.php?topic=1120.0
Looks interesting.
Gavin has a great write-up on it:
http://gavinmcgraw.blogspot.com/
Barry
Hey Everybody,
Marie has been hagging me to blog about the two times a have seen Mike Mainieri play in the last week. But I've been fed up with some really complicated personal stuff... Well actually that has been going on for a year now, but it's really complicated, but anyway the bottom line is I have to move soon and have to put a lot of time into our new house and also I have a pretty good gig coming up in a theater show that I'm preparing fo, some pretty advanced classical stuff(I'll post about that too in a while...)....
Trying to sort some stuff out, but I have some things in mind over the xmas break. I'm finished teaching at school (Univ of the Arts) and have a month off.
I'd like to get on line a lot over the month and hang out with subscribers. Maybe Piper and Saindon and Joe will join me for some? That's in the works. Just have to get my schedule together.
I've asked Patty Franceschy to do some lessons during these meet ups with the stevens grip.
I even asked Harvey Price who just wrote a book of Milt transcriptions to do some mini Milt lessons!
Bah humbug!! You guys are in the holiday spirit! I'm not a holiday guy at all and I'm dreading my Friday gig. We'll be in some guys mansion and we'll be playing tunes and of course someone will want Christmas tunes. some of them are pretty and I like Oscar's version of them. I'll play those, but I'm so not a holiday guy, this week won't be fun for me.
I do like listening to some stuff. Choirs and again Oscar. His Xmas cd is really cool I think. I'm also checking out what you guys are posting and that's fun. I'm just not into playing them myself! Scrooge huh?