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In a recent post, I was asked about how I would keep the drums out of the vibes mics.  It's an age-old problem that nearly all of us have experienced.

Obviously, in a recording studio, the answer is to banish the drummer to a booth.  Situation resolved. Any bleed beyond that can be removed with software in post production.

I was just blown away looking at our Vbooks section. That is Virtual Books. 

I was putting something in the chords section and I couldn't believe how many lessons were in there! 

The thing about vibesWorkshop is you just look for stuff to practice. I don't think we necessarily need a sequence, we just need to learn and practice. Yes with a teacher it's more about sequence I guess, but here you can just look around.

Here's a simple solo I did for a student.

All the things you are. 

He's doing the following: 

1. Learn the solo (don't write it down)
2. play it along with the recording every day
3. play each chord and then play the part of the solo that goes with it. This will help him associate the chords with the solo.
4. Play the solo on the piano as best he can, in time out of time, whatever. Left hand plays {Pinky:root, middleFinger:3rd, thumb:7th }

Allstar cats here! 

There are some things to talk about here. First My mallets which are hard(er) mallets sound great here. It cuts through and you here the articulation. I'm not saying buy my mallets, but I am saying by mallets like mine. We should all have a set of mallets that cut through and stand out. 

Notice I'm playing accoustically. No microphones up close on the vibes. The band is playing to my volume. That's the way it should be in my world. You play so all can be heard. 

What else to say, this is amazing! 

Performance video of Friedman Etude 7, played using Stevens' grip. Introductory practice to muting.

Me playing the 4th etude under tempo

I did this a while ago. I probably hated it when I listened back. But time has a way of making us more objective about our past. 

But I think this is cool. I like how I keep time even though it's slow and spacey. 

Rubato and timeless is cool, but not as a crutch. That's what I think.

Reconnected to this vintage standard. Not an easy one to chorus on. 
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