yesterday i wanted to create a simple playback for me to practice vibes...then i couldn´t resist and out came this...don´t take it serious. in the end the vibes didn´t make it on the recording :) malletkat is fun!!!
tarik
Let's focus on the TOTM's we've covered so far.
Let's also work on ways of building technique, solo playing, studying chords and all other topics you guys might have.
We'll start the day at about 10am and go till noon.
Then have lunch.…
Rules:
1. ONE key per day.
2. you MUST run the board ascending/ descending >or< descending/ ascending at least 2 times per sequence. Lowest point o the instrument in that key to the highest point on that instrument in that key.
3.…
Here's a track off my 2010 release"Botanic." This is an original tune entitled "Vestibule."
Made a slide show video with some photos from over the time the album was created.
Give it a listen!
-Tyler
Steve Weiss is an old friend of mine. And I've bought quite a few sets of vibes from him over the years. I think he's done a lot for the percussion world by creating the largest percussion store in the world. He's a great, crazy guy that…
finally a video of my mug and trio for everyone here .. been a while .. hope you all enjoy. this is a tune of mine called afterthought. this trio will be hitting the recording studio in janruary and has just been accepted to be on…
So I've almost finished producing a CD, now what do I do?
Put it on CD Baby? And have them upload it to iTunes, etc.?
Put it on Spotify?
Have free downloads? All tunes or just some?
Sell it at gigs -- but for how much?
Put it on YouTube?…
Hey guys. Saturday, December 8th, 12pm I'm doing a vibe hang at my house for a couple of my U Arts Students. Behn Gillece is coming by as well. If any of you are around and want to come hang, then come over. Email me for more info.
I'm…
Hey vibesworkshop!
So...I haven't been getting very far with my transcription of Afro Blue because I don't have a vibraphone to play for ten days and haven't had anything to update my blog with. It's frustrating not having my instrument...…
Hi All-
This is a new one for me; in an iso booth recording, and it seems as though my highest G natural is somehow dead. I thought it was the resonator, but it seems to have less than 1/3rd of the sustain of the bars around it, whether…
hey,
in my series frank zappa M-Kat playalong i present today:
zomby woof.
i love that tune and it´s a really cool rock composition of frank, showing that avantgard rhythms like quintuplets can fit into a rock setting. i cutted out the…
A small taster of our performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin recently. Piano is a bit low as it was not mic'd but sound is ok. Enjoy
John
Ok, here's two easy etudes over the tune Just In Time.
Play through the chords then listen to this solo. Make sure the tune is in your head! You should hear the tune easily in the lines. I wrote the chords in on the chord etude. You write…
Hello everyone,
I would like to inform you that I am going to perform this thursday (6/12/2012) on a place called Grand Café EDD's (heggenstraat 3, 6211 GW Maastricht, Netherlands) and it's located in Maastricht (Netherlands). I am going…
Hi guys,
check out my new album Vision, which I recorded with Ludmila Stefanikova on vibes. There is a composition of mine - Concerto for Vibraphone and Rhythm Section, you might be interested in listening.
Listen here:
http://soundcloud.…
Ok, that's enough with the chops, huh? I'm away for one week. Behn said he'd shoot me if I didn't end the chops TOTM.
So let's get back to a tune. ok? Just In Time me and Behn were thinking of.
I think Behn has one more chops exercise, so…