Christos Rafalides & Manhattan Vibes
this TUESDAY, MAY 20th at the Zinc Bar in NYC.
8pm & 10pm
Really excited to present our new project 'SERENDIPITY'
Christos Rafalides - vibraphone
Sergio Salvatore - piano
Petros Klampanis - bass…
Here is take two of Autumn Leaves with some thoughts on improv. A simple technique is to play a motive and move it around the scale. The strength of the motive allows it to be played out of the scale of the underlying chord or used over a…
Hey guys,
Started to look at this tune again. Really nice tune 3/4 tune in a minor key by Kurt Weill titled Liebeslied. Sort of plays itself with nice guide tone lines running through the changes. 32 bars, through composed.
FYI: We added…
Guys, here's a version of Ellington's Take The A Train. A Train is one of those tunes that can sound cheesey if you play too diatonic and "in". The changes are fairly diatonic, so if you just play chord tones and diatonic scales, it will…
Happy New Year everyone! I became aware of the beautiful composition Alfonsina y el Mar just before the holidays. Here's an alternate version that I had recorded when practicing the song. (I was also testing out an external mic versus the…
This is the quintessential recording of this tune. Maybe some of the younger guys haven't heard it??
Stop, sit and lesson.
If you didn't know this it makes the tune even heavier.
Billy Strayhorn wrote this tune at age 17 (if my research…
Here's the second lesson of a short series about rhythm changes playing.
As usual there's a pdf that is a summary of what we are going to do during the lesson.
Let me know if you have question : giovanniperin87@gmail.com
www.giovanniperin.…
Third attempt at this etude! Definitely not done with it yet, but hopefully a good culmination of my posts of it here.
I did not use a metronome this time, so I know my time still needs work; I wanted to see how good it would be without a…
Hello everyone, here's a videoclip from a clinic on improvisation that I presented at Berklee (last summer) for the Summer Program faculty. The topics covered Tension Resolution, Four Note Groupings and Major 7th #5 Superimposition. The…
This was a GREAT workshop. Nothing else to say. And I have buddies from all over the world. Great friends and great players. What can I say. This is some heavy &*it for me.
We had some great support from some great sponsors! And then…
hi,
i love to play in this band (teenage dream) although i only play drums there. but be sure i´m prepared to play every song we do on the mallets too...just in case :)
we almost never play live cause it´s difficult to find places for such…
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