Here is a great analysis of the Steely Dan "Mu Major" chord.
http://jmdl.com/howard/steelydan/mu-major.html
I just tried it on the vibes and it sounds cool.
Barry
in 2001 i was a member of jupiter hollow. my originally role was playing b3, rhodes, over time we melted in the gigs ... i found this track of a recording session we did.. never was released ... thought you all might enjoy a bit of oregon…
Hello All,
I'm kinda new at this "posting" business, I hope I've put it in the right place.
So...
I remember a few years ago that Ed Saindon, Tony Miceli and John Piper all recorded a solo version of a tune. Was it Dolphin Dance? It…
Hello everyone,
I have a vibraphone clinic coming up that I wanted to mention. The clinic will take place on Saturday, March 28th in Ogden, Utah as part of a PAS Day of Percussion hosted by Don Keipp.
The clinic will focus on mallet…
Check out this young guy Alexander Cruz. I met him at PASIC this year. He was playing with an excellent marimba group from Chiapas Mexico called Narimbo:
http://www.narimbo.com/
They played a great show and were truly sweet people. I…
We started recording our new Monkadelphia CD the other night. At least I think we'll make a cd. We wanted to go into the studio and record and see what happened. We did one rehearsal, hadn't played together for about 2 years. I dig it.
I'…
Lennie Tristano, George Shearing... 2 masters of drop 2 voicings. (Was Shearing?) I'm going to listen to more Lennie, but I played on the piano today and I thought of him immediately.
I've been really shedding all this. A couple points I'm…
Joe Locke has made available free lead sheets (for a limited time) from his catalogue.
Included is music from:
Force of Four
Rev-elation
Sticks and Stings and others, at the link below:
http://www.joelocke.com/shop/
I was playing the C6, Fdim chords (with the various inversions) in Dana's drop 2 lesson. As I was playing, I heard the song, "Once in a While", and thought it might be a good tune to apply the Drop 2 voicing for chord melody.
I would…
I couldn't wait for Tony's etude so I started working with the Sword of Whispers lead sheet on Joe's site. This is a demo recording to put down some ideas. I was mainly trying to get the notes and some harmonies. I need major work on my…
Hi everybody,
I'm back from my week of holidays in the Alpes, and thought I could send you some post cards!
I think you'll have to be patient with the loading...
Enjoy!
MN
i hope mr.locke don´t mind that i did my version of his beautiful song.i am not too pleased with the solo part but in one take i couldn´t do any better than this...anyway here it is...
Hey Guys,
I've been feeling bad that I'm not around much, especially since there is soo much stuff going up, my recent activity page has a few pages of all new stuff I wanna check out, so I'll try to do that now and then.
Man, Dana, you're…
Hi everyone!
A.I.R Percussion Quartet (percussion geeks group) just got a MySpace page. Please stop by and check us out! This is the link:
www.myspace.com/airpercussionquartet
Hi Folks- Since I'm advertising my gig with this band on Feb 27th, I just wanted to put a little sample of the music up. I've posted a few of our more cryptically Celtic arrangements in the past, so I wanted to share this one, which is a…
Hi Vibesworkshop--
Just wanted to put it out there that my quartet is playing at Cornelia Street Cafe (http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com) on Friday, Feb 27th at 9pm and 10:30. We'll be playing our unique mixture of Irish jigs, reels, and…
Maybe this is what is needed to make vibes/marimba more popular ? Dig the showmanship of the bass player (lol)
Made me smile for about 3 seconds....now for something completely different!
