Hey y'all, just letting you guys know that my new CD will be available this coming Tuesday August 20, 2013. The name of the record is called "WOLFGANG". I'm playing vibes mainly throughout the record. There's one track on Marimba. That…
Check out Joe Pass. check out his intro here. Imagine this was a set of vibes. Doesn't translate totally to our instrument. I grew up playing classical guitar and still think the vibes are more like a guitar than a piano. IMHO
Before a new school year, I did some work on my M55 to improve it.
I was unhappy with the silly W brace system, always getting loose at the worst time (when rolling the vibe to my van at 2AM for example...), and being a nonsense mechanical…
I'm going to try another Livestream of my gig tonight with the OGD Vibe Quartet from 8:00 to about 10:00 PM EDT. Go to http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1758489/events/2347239.
We play a mix of guitarist Mike Caruso's originals and…
Hi everyone,
For the next few weeks, we will be studying Summertime and Wave. These are great tunes for the TOTM, many things to talk about with both. I will be posting the first introductory lesson on Summertime shortly.
Behn
Hi all,
Hope everyone had a good summer. I was on sabbatical from the University of Cincinnati last semester and finished a vibraphone method book. It focuses on building technique and creating ideas for improvisation. If anyone is…
So I heard it said somewhere that great comping should include a variety of both opened and closed voicings. I think I'm at the point now where I can play and voice lead open and close voicings in all their permutations and variations (i.e…
Hey I have been working with a really excellent set up this past month and i thought i'd share it with you. I play a lot of Acoustic Bass and I have been using my bass rig to amp the vibes. It ain't cheap but it is really superior for gigs…
Ok, I think I've seen a lot of vibe players, talked to them and listened to them. I have a huge stack of CDs, I watch video all the time and do workshops for many vibe players around the world now. That's cool because that was my goal. A…
The saxophone player I played with 10 days ago made me know this splendid ballad (how could have I missed that one during 30 years ????), it became instantly a nice poison, and then my first try. I know, it's a jazz monument, but as the…
Check this out. Andre is a great vibe player I think. He's play Brazilian Choro music on the vibes. (is it choro?). I saw him to a whole concert of this music and miss one note. Every tune was like this. This is sort of like Brazilian…
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