Friedman #17: https://youtu.be/G38fM40NfRk
I'll Remember April: https://youtu.be/A7vryzYIBzI
I love the tune Recado Bossa Nova. My fav part is the Eb to A. What a cool sound.
I wrote a very detailed (for me) etude with sticking. So you can really see how I think of things. I try to take a very minimalist approach to the vibes (most of the time).
Notice how the harmony works and there is not a lot of chords. I think this works as a solo piece which means you don't need a lot of notes and chords for a solo piece.
Hello everyone at vibesworkshop!
I've been working on my marimba skills. 'Carlos' is a composition of mine, which i played with many different musicians. I always wondered what it would sound like on the marimba...here it is! Greetings from Berlin, Franz
Stella by starlight (head and solo): https://youtu.be/fFQU0ZfcMp8
Billie's Bounce head: https://youtu.be/oyB4JJxfqcI
Etude No. 33 from my book "Vibraphone Virtuosity Series - Intermediate Progressive Etude, Multi-stylistic
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Just a reminder. If you're looking for etudes to work on your technique, try the Parker Omnibook or the Coltrane Omnibook.
They are great and saxophone doesn't seem to me to lay out easily on the vibes so the music is challenging. I have always thought that trumpet lays out really well on the vibes. Don't know why but it does. Maybe it's harder for trumpet players to jump around on the instrument? What do you think.
And if you use transcription books, you are working on improvising, even though the best way to do that is to transcribe it yourself.
This goes along with this etude I posted:
https://www.vibesworkshop.com/audio-player/i-could-write-book/tonymicel…
I mentioned I would post my version of the tune. I work hard on playing tunes solo. As many of you know, I think great players and play by themselves. They can play solo.
How do you work on this? Record ourself playing melodies for starters, then tap along with them and check the time.
Friedman #16: https://youtu.be/5R5HBNNbJCc
Sandu: https://youtu.be/iwfY5g0h-Us
I enjoy practicing single lines, focussing on phrasing and time. In this example I used as a kind of "theme", playing over llm7b5-V7, moving around tonalities.
