I wanted to say that David's new recording Weaving Through Motion is a fantastic recording. Masterful and creative playing with a gorgeous recording sound of the vibes and marimba. I downloaded it from Amazon. Highly recommended. Ed
im looking for a mallet bag. Tony, i remember you mentioning that Beiner bags were working on a special bag for you. Is that goin to be out soon? I miss my leather barrel style bag i had years ago .. does anyone know where to get those?
Hey Everyone,
Here's an etude/arrangement on the TOTM, Fried Bananas (pdf is attached). You can use it as a shout chorus or supplement for the tune, enjoy!
Behn
Please note that in the audio, I keep referring to the half diminished chord in measure 25 as "diminished", but I really meant and even played HALF diminished! Haha!
hello vibeworkshop family .. id like to share the this composition with you that i just recorded last weekend with my friend Tom Berich on steel pans. The tune is entitled " Reflections." not be associated with the monk tune. this…
I am doing a presentation about the vibraphone in latin jazz music as part of my thesis and I realized after talking to Tony today that there aren't so many vibes player in this music as there are in piano. I know Tito, Cal, Samuels and…
Udel here's your next lessons. This is what we talked about today.
Improvise through all the modes with a friend droning on the marimba.
Play a chord tone solo (in time)
Play a solo version of a tune.
It's due October 8th
******** Please…
Hey everyone,
It's about that time to wrap up our current TOTMs "All The Things You Are" and "Prince Albert." It would be great to see everyone posting some final versions!
Our new TOTMs will include "Take The "A" Train" and "It's You Or…
Here is my first Mini Concert of three tunes, all related by key (either F minor or major). Each tune tied together with an F minor arpeggio.
1) All the Things You Are
2) Let It Go from Frozen (partial)
3) Barry Ktude No. 4 - Major…
Finally got some videos edited from a show I did a while back, here in NYC with Kevin Hays (piano), Michael Blanco (bass), and Mark Ferber (drums)
This is a re-imagining of Coltrane's "26-2"...
Hope you all dig it!
Hello everyone. Last year at the World's Vibe Congress we discussed, among a multitude of other topics, how to create greater exposure for the vibraphone. One of the possibilities we discussed was creating new pieces and works which…
Hey all, he may not be a vibes player, but Herbie Hancock is an artist I'm guessing we all love, admire, and have been influenced by...
so here's my review of his new autobiography, "Possibilities". Hope you enjoy it
Herbie Hancock’s…
Here's a new clip that we just recorded in my home studio this past Sunday. Mark and I have been playing duo gigs for awhile now. He came over to hang and play some tunes. Playing duo with upright bass is a lot of fun.
Been working on this tune for a few weeks and find it so difficult to improvise over but got a little bit of a solo going over pentatonic scales for the first three choruses and then I try and be more free on last chorus. Lots to do on…
This beautiful ballad by Mercer Ellington is, I believe, not well known. Bill Evans and Eddie Gomez recorded it on the album Intuition, which is where I discovered it. I love the simplicity of the melody supported by those rich chords.…
Practicing improvisation on Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To". Mixing up improvisational techniques including Four Note Groupings, Pentatonic Scales and Upper Structure Triads/7th chords.
You guys inspired me to work on "It's You Or
No One"...
I haven't shed it yet, but here's my first pass
playing along with Aebersold!
I think those guys might speed up a little bit during
this take! :-D
(Tony, I'm still trying to flatten…
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