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Hey everyone, I think this is pretty cool. "Pitch bending" is something I've been messing around with on the vibes, especially in a blues context, but also in ballads and really any setting you want. Let me know what you think!
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My trio arrangement of the great Hoagy Carmichael tune "Skylark."
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They say he's 14, but I think he's a midget and looks older. He's pretty good.
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Hey everyone, Here's part two in this mini-series. In this one, I focus on dominant 13 (#11) chords, explain where to play them, why they exist, and how to solo over them. And, most importantly, why you have to treat every dominant chord…
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Wouldn’t it be nice to get rid of those archaic springs used to hold tension on the vibe and marimba bar string? PIPERvibe now offers a new device that is simple to install (less than 5 seconds) and requires no tools. Once installed, all…
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Some Benny Green piano vocabulary adapted to the vibraphone.
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Here's a great video about a vibe player I knew nothing about. However he plays great and is a great guy. But I'll let John Keene tell the story, it's a bit tragic. John turned me onto the video.
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Let your ears tell you what is happening. Train them to give you information.
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Trying to find ways to play tunes solo. By that I mean concepts and ways to simply play tunes on the vibes and improvise your accompaniment.
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My Take!
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This is a pretty tune. I talk about the harmony and moving it around.
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I'm slowly getting into the classical vibraphone rep, and I started with this one.
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Try this with the dominant chords and then use it over just in time. I also added a very scalular solo. So you could write the scales in here for next weeks class. It's all below.
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Hello everyone! This is a lesson geared towards beginners, but useful for everyone! I explain my method for going through all possible standard extensions and voicings for a dominant chord (there are 32 in total for any dominant chord!).…
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Lessons with Teddy
David Friedman
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Reading the posts about Teddy Charles reminded me of my own relatively short but equally intense time of study with this great jazz iconoclast and master vibes player. When I was at Juilliard in the 60's, my teacher, Morris Goldenberg,…
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OK, a bit of a clickbait title, yes, but it's true! All three voicings I'll show you in this video have no third, which is usually the one note we absolutely need! We shall explore why that's the case.
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Questions? Thoughts? What did you think? Let's talk about his book, here. I have some things to say but I'll wait. How about some of you start. Gary will check in to answer questions and comment (I'm pretty sure).
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Line Building Blocks Exercise
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For all the vibes history nerds out there, who played vibes on Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas?" My guess is Victor Feldman, as he's worked with Ella and Frank DeVol (the conductor/arranger) on other occasions, I…
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Here is the link to download my DIY vibration unit for vibraphones. I chose this forum for the download because all the information about 3D printing is available there. After this cathastrophic year of 2021, things can really only get…
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The solo piece played by Henry Wilson is called Papirosn. It is an old Yiddish Theater song about a little boy trying to get by in the ghetto selling cigarettes and other things. Henry changed the harmony and melody quite bit for this…
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Click here for more infoSoft, quiet, but articulate Super soft, nearly silent, slurring articulation
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