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Tony’s Lesson 4 

This album, The Arrival of Victor Feldman, is an album I wish I knew about sooner. This trio makes you forget that you are listening to a trio. They don’t have that awkward empty space or the same routine every time. The other unique thing is, it’s a trio but with four instruments. How brilliant is that. It adds so much to each song to have both the piano and vibes switching out. Another thing, Stan Levey, the drummer loves the triangle I’m guessing. I counted about three songs that DIDN’T have triangle. Keep your ears out for the triangle hits!

This album, Wanderlust by Mike Mainieri, has it all. Jazz funk, R&B type beat, laid-back styles, and some ballad like songs. Each song is something unique about it. Each song showcases a different instrument or style. I love when the songs in albums don’t sound all the same. Each song has something new to share and it gives a different kind of excitement to each one.

Tony lesson 2 (Vibraphone Technique: dampening and pedaling book by David Friedman)

Tony lesson 2 (Vibraphone Technique: dampening and pedaling book by David Friedman)

Legato lines on the beautiful MTech marimba, by Malletech. I love this instrument. It has it’s own sound and, although it’s always a challenge to play legato, lyrical lines on any marimba, I love doing it on the MTech.

Tony lesson 2 (head, improv, comping, head)

After listening to Gary Burton's album Alone At Last, here are some of my thoughts.

Hello all,

I've been playing around more with stride recently and thought I'd share a recording of the standard "After You've Gone." I'm also trying something new, and decided to (loosely) transcribe this recording and put it for sale on my website! I may do a lesson on this stuff if there's enough interest. You can find more info here:

https://www.olivermayman.com/product-page/after-you-ve-gone-solo-vibrap…

Here is an etude based on the mixolydian scale, or we could say based on a dominant chord. 

It starts on G7 and goes through the cycle of 4ths every two bars. 

Play the etude. 

Find a lick over one of the chords and memorize it and then play it over each dom chord transposing it into each new key. 

Play your own stuff over this. There is a version with just bass.

Play the chords over it instead of lines. Play chords behind my solo. 

I hope you see that you can do so many things with a little material.