Hi all,
Here is an original song from the album with thanks to Gary Burton for the inspiration and for blazing the trail for us.
Cheers Kym
Here's a short clip of me playing the 13th etude for pedaling from David Friedman's method book. Feedback welcome.
Experimenting on the marimba today with Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight".
Hi all,
Here is a track from our new CD with my band The View From Madeleine's Couch. An original song recorded a couple of months ago.
Cheers Kym
"Crystal Silence" composed by Chick Corea. A classic from Chick and Gary Burton from their great ECM album recorded in 1972. The recording has stood the test of time and still sounds fresh today. I hadn't played this in quite awhile. It was one of the first songs that I learned in lessons with Gary starting in '73.
A little late night session working on the sabbatical project. This a minor blues on John Coltrane’s “Mr. PC”. Solo vibe techniques include left hand comping mixed with one/two hand lines and right hand octaves. Improv techniques include Pentatonics, Upper Structure Triads, Motivic Playing and Side Slipping. All concepts from my improv series The Complete Guide to Improvisation available from Amazon. Apologies for the dark lighting.
It's sort of a step 1.
(ESP) Bienvenid@ a vibesworkshop.com! Aca una lección muy simple. Cuando pienso en las clases y ejercicios que hacemos de improvisación, pienso que hacemos técnica y muchas otras cosas. Es una gran actividad, y es muy simple. Algunos de mis estudiantes que son nuevos en tocar vibráfono de jazz trabajan sobre esto. Agarras dos acordes menores a una distancia de 4ta justa, por ejemplo Fa menor (que va a Sib menor [...]
Some Benny Green piano vocabulary adapted to the vibraphone.
