I left a couple things out, so fill in below.
Tell me more about this lick. What about the notes of the lick? What are they over each chord? What are they based on the key we're going to.
This is the power of us all working together. I'm checking out all these videos on the blues. I'm listening to the blues in the car and the blues is coming out all over the place for me!
You guys are influencing me big time. This is the…
Here is a tune I started composing. I don't know if I heard it somewhere before, or if it is original. With the descending bass line, it could be a million tunes!
Please let me know if it sounds like something familiar, and I'll work on…
It has been a frustrating ten days of working on chords to use as a left hand accompaniment to a melody line in the right hand. Six weeks till the sing-a-long at the Rehab Hospital. Working with a FAKE book "Ragtime and Early Jazz", I…
Says panting and out of breath:
Drummers dad dies last night.
Got him on a bus to NY at 2:40. He's got to get to Cleveland.
What about the gig today?? We need someone. Well got Arturo Stable, so that's COOL!!
No time to practice anything…
Here are seven choruses of improvisation on the progression of Life's Blessing.
Again, as I mentioned in the other video playing the melody, the left hand is functioning as accompaniment as well as helping out the right hand to execute…
I AM PRACTISING USING THE LEFT HAND. THIS LESSON IS BASED ON A PREVIOUS TOTM SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME. I THINK VIBRAPHONISTS WHEN WE PLAY MELODICALLY WE ARE MORE HORN PLAYERS. I WOULD LIKE TO STUDY HOW THE PIANO PLAYERS COMP WITH THEIR…
I've been getting up and playing a Parker tune or 2 to get my center. Joe Magnarelli does this and I've been trying to adopt it. Rhythmically Parker is pretty heavy IMHO.
Then I'm rehearsing for a string of gigs this week with the same…
I'm listening to Stefon Harris' new album that he did with some guys down in Cuba. It's a cool album, called Ninety Miles. But, I think I need a lot more history behind latin music to appreciate it.
Can anybody suggest some guys who…
I need to confess! I bought a pair of those Sefon Harris Mallets. Big balls, short staff (lol). You know what.... I pick up just 2 mallets every now and then and just play and it is SO MUCH FUN. I get why there are 2 mallet players (and 3…
Here's a rhythm changes solo I played.
The best way to learn all this is to transcribe the legends, Dextor, Clifford, Parker, Sonny etc.
I thought putting out some solos might be a good way to break into all that. You should consider…
This is a performance of a composition from a great friend of mine from Germany Matthias Schmitt.
While not vibes, it is a mallet piece with choir which in our idiom (jazz) seldom to hear.
I hope you enjoy it.
-Todd
I'm trying to find what year my Musser m75 was manufactured. Does anyone know who to contact? The serial number for the instrument is 0476.
Thanks!
Ted.
HELLO EVERYBODY. I HAVE BEEN WORKING THE AUTUMN LEAVES FOR ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MONTH. AT I THOUGHT I KNOW THIS TUNE, SO WHAT IS THE POINT OF PRACTICE AGAIN. I WAS WRONG. I LEARNED A LOT FROM THIS TUNE. ONE OF THE THINGS I LEARNED WAS WAS…
Here's a stunning solo on the blues. 12 bars from Charlie Parker (April 1941) on Hootie Blues. No wonder the guys who heard that in 1941 were dumbfounded !
I have learnt this solo note for note, and I play it as a tune.
BTW - anyone can start the vibe diary. I personally think it's pretty cool for someone to start talking about what they're doing and then all the rest of us join in.
I was glad to finally have a day where I don't have to practice other…
Thought this might be interesting. Getting the old guys to give advice to the young guys who are heading off to college.
Mine:
Be very open minded and humble.
Don't get too involved with drugs and booze, that will take away from the…
I played a club last night where lots of old rock bands from the 60's and 70's are now playing! Full circle for them, huh?? Was a big club, but not a stadium!
I used to be a big fan of a band called 'The Tubes'. JEEEEZ, I youtubed them and…
I'm at school right now and I had a few minutes with the camera on. So I thought I'd play a very rough and quick version of Donna Lee, the etude I have posted here.
I think if anything the etude will lead to you thinking about using…
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