“Lucky Southern” by Keith Jarrett. It’s been sort of a Berklee standard through the years. A fun song to play with an AABA form.
“Who Can I Turn To” - inspired by pianist Bill Evans’ version of this classic song. Focusing on some concepts from my upcoming book Solo Vibraphone Playing. The book will include many concepts from my studies with Gary Burton as well as many others gleaned from the many great jazz pianists. It may take awhile to get it out but stay tuned.
This is the second part of my lessons on my original composition - Solitude. I am talking about how to work on independence and finding balance between the four mallets.
If you are interested in downloading the sheet music for Solitude, it is available at:
https://www.tonymiceli.com/sheetmusic/solitude-by-morgan-walbridge
Full audio for Solitude is also available at:
http://morganwalbridge.bandcamp.com/track/solitude
This is the first part of my lessons on my original composition - Solitude. I am talking about how to practice playing and moving around open fifths. I use them throughout my piece as accompaniment and think they are a great tool to have for solo vibraphone.
If you are interested in downloading the sheet music for Solitude, it is available at:
https://www.tonymiceli.com/sheetmusic/solitude-by-morgan-walbridge
I'm almost done recording the first 20 (doing them in a weird order) and they are all somewhere on this site or on my YouTube channel.
I'm almost done recording the first 20 (doing them in a weird order) and they are all somewhere on this site or on my YouTube channel.
Stride popped up on the site the other day, so after practicing Tony's stride stuff a lot and watching all his videos on it, I'm trying it out with a few standards! The first is Jerome Kern's "Pick Yourself Up," loosely inspired by Aaron Diehl's version. Let me know what you think!
I tried some recordings using my malletkat and my vibe with audacity.
Stay healthy!
Paul
"Everything Happens To Me" - Exploring on the vibraphone while playing over the piano track.
Always a work in progress but also fun at the same time.
Man, I think he gets it, totally. This is really some amazing marimba playing! IMHO