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"I'll Remember April" from last Saturday's gig. Always a fun night of playing by the fish tank. (The camera was on top of the tank).
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Jobim's "How Insensitive" with Mark and I from our steady gig (over 8 years) at Li's last Saturday. Nice to play in a relaxed atmosphere and hang with friends.
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I was working on this song with my student this past week. We were talking about various techniques that can be applied in order to fill things out with the melody and improv. A few things we covered were counterpoint, comping underneath…
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He sounds good right?
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A simple, elegant, and somewhat underappreciated tune by Cole Porter.
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This covers strictly the piston stroke-- the what and how of physically performing it.
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Just kidding! This is pretty wild!
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The start of an ongoing project! After parsing the physical skills, philosophical issues will get teased out, and then I'll create segments particular to drum corps problems. Hopefully a contribution of something new to Vibes Workshop!…
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"When Sunny Gets Blue" - Working on this classic for the sabbatical project which combines solo vibraphone playing techniques along with various improv concepts. It's been really nice having the sabbatical to write and shed. But, I'm…
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My first post. Going through some old tapes I found a recording (1991) of my duo Mallet Unit. Roland Stolk wrote the piece and plays the vibes. I play the marimba on this tune Foreign Breakfast. Hope you like it. The sheet-music is for…
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Xibalba Project
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Hey, Been working on arranging Xibalba for myself and an oboist. Freshman year I played this piece-- otherwise I wouldn't have known it existed. I'm surprised I did it back then! Funny to think of what we were capable of even as…
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This is a solo on Joe Henderson's "Recordame" that Dave recorded for me in a lesson when I was studying with him at Berklee most likely in '73. He played this in the lesson unaccompanied and I had taped the lesson and transcribed it after…
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PASIC 2019
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I just attended PASIC for the first time. I enjoyed it, but for me there were also a number of frustrating moments that I wanted to give voice to, because I think frustrations like these are sometimes invisible if you're not experiencing…
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“I Loves You Porgy” – a great ballad by Gershwin. One of my favorites beautifully played by Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett. I’m using some chord changes from Bill and Keith as well as a few of my own. Also using voicings from by book Voicing…
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Someday My Prince Will Come” with Jan de Haas and Piet Verbist. One of the songs that was taped during my clinic presentation on November 7th at the Antwerp music conservatory. I had a great time presenting classes for the vibraphone and…
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Dave Samuels' Archive Update: Happy to report that Berklee College of Music will be archiving all of Dave Samuels’ music collection which includes studio and live recordings (Reel to Reels, Dats, CDs), videos, music educational material as…
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The Chicken
Marie-Noëlle
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hey! This is Florian, Marie's son. I know it's been a long time since she last came on this website. I'm always giving her "shit" to play again but she doesn't ! please help me ! So i decided to play this iconic jazz song by myself. I play…
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Hi Folks, Once or twice a year I like to share a recent video. Here's my arrangement of "Call Me" by Blondie from a recent show in Switzerland with my trio. Enjoy! -Tyler
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This is an AWESOME piece. Good fodder for advanced geography/space sharing between the hands on vibraphone. Also stabilizing repeated tones while surrounding tones change, and avoiding anticipatory "static" in the motion (ie. a hand tries…
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