Hey everyone,
I've been listening and practising blue in Green this week. I tried to play it simple. not fancy things just work on the melody and harmony!
Hope you like it!
When I was in college I was fortunate enough to befriend a number of great student musicians/composers. One of them was a fellow named Mitch Coodley. He wrote many great tunes that I think are as good or better than tunes by any famous…
Hey everyone,
This is my father with Christos Rafalides at a clinic he did in a conservatorium in Greece. My father use to teach Christos music and now Christos is teaching me!!!
Things go in cycles for me. Let's just start with that.
Over the last couple of years I have been on a small tangent, musically speaking. I've had a wonderful experience getting to know new compositions of the classical variety. At times…
Happy Birthday Tony!!
Did I miss a post to congratulate Tony or am I really the first...?
Anyway, Happy birthday Tony!!! Sorry I haven't been around here but I have been busy and am preparing for our second child that is coming in about 6…
Mint condition, easy to transport, great for pit work, orchestral, multi-percussion set ups, sound effects, etc. Super easy to breakdown and transport. Look it up to get the specifications-- non-graduated bars, thin width to bars, best for…
Hi Tony,
Here's a photo of my newly renovated 1920's Premier Vibes. I bought them for $30 from a garage sale in Dublin, Ireland in absolutely terrible condition. We saved the bars, bar rails , brass resonators and pedal, and had new…
Check out Andre.
He's a great vibe player from Brazil. I'm trying to get him to post some lessons on the site talking about the Brazilian rhythms and how to play them on the vibes! He has great chops. He played a whole 1.5 hour show and I…
Hi everyone,
Next week, we enter the month of July, time for a clean, new start on a Tune of the Month.
I've spoken with Tony, and we've decided that it may be a good idea to have 2 tunes to study for next month, each of varying difficulty…
i took out a very old vinyl recording from 1978 by billy joel called 52nd street, which i did not losten to since 10 years or something like that. one of my favorite tracks is the tune "half a mile". after this tune comes "untill the night…
Cal Tjader is one of the vibraphone masters. His work can inspire others. I'm enjoying my little jump into his playing.
I'm working on a transcription of Cal Tjader's Tropicville from the album Latin Kick. If someone is familiar with this…
I am selling an old set of Musser vibes. It appears to be their "Combo" line vibes, except it DOES NOT have a motor, pedal, and is also missing the belt that the motor uses. To fix the pedal problem I tied rope with a loop to the eye bolt…
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This link to a YouTube video will set you wise to many of Led Zeppelin's biggest hits and from whom they stole them, without giving credit on their albums. I post this here because I know Tony has recorded "Kashmir" with The…
I'm in Patagonia right now at a percussion festival. I realized something when I was doing my workshop and talking to people about the vibraphone. I had a lot of confidence talking about this instrument. I actually felt proud about the…
Hi All,
Here is the article I wrote for my monthly column, On The Road, in the New Jersey Jazz Society magazine. It appears in the just-released July/August issue. This magazine is sent to members only and is not available online.…
Hey all,
Soon me and the family are going on our 2 week holiday. And this year I just don't want to take a break in playing. Only thing is, I can't take the vibes.
Now I noticed there are these cheap 1-1.5 octave glockenspiels you can get…
