So here's another video of my mentor, Steve Giordano. Again listen to him play. I think you can imagine playing most of this on the vibes. For me, this is where the solo playing comes from. We can learn a lot from the guitar.
Just imagine this was a set of vibes.
Don't use the pedal if you don't want to. This is just an exercise in some alternate 4 mallet sticking. Not single lines, but 2 note voicings.
I was messing around with these ideas this morning. I banged this puppy out before heading out to class. I'll double check it later.
Your job is to figure out what standard it is based on, analyze the voicings and play it.
You can name the tune here. It should be obvious!!!!
I added a track with some percussion. This is an etude that should just give you some independent 4 mallet ideas.
This is a clip from PASIC 07 that I saw a long while back but just ran across again. It is an interesting concept presented in an entertaining way.
James
This is a great lesson to check out. It's interesting to see how much David knows about the instrument.
Just a very very Quick (and Dirty) video about Getting Your Groove On. In otherwords setting up a groove and soling over it.
Lionel Swinging!
Here's my arrangement or etude on Chega. Of course inspired by Gary Burton's untouchable version! None the less I thought inspired by his version it might be fun for us to give it a shot.
Pedaling? If it troubles anyone I can think about it but I more less just fluttered the pedal on every beat except for the obvious places.
This was mentioned in the comments so I thought I'd post it as a new post.
How about this? You guys want to post a whole bunch of links here about the subject for others to check out?
This is along the same lines of the video of singing tips that Tony posted. The only difference is that I think this guy is serious. He posts these to a web-site called the expert village
Make sure you watch what notes he's playing!