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“How Deep Is The Ocean” by Irving Berlin. Such a hip song from 1932. Focusing here on playing the melody and lines with only the two inside mallets essentially like a two mallet player. I’m using an open spread fulcrum with the inside mallets. The open spread allows for a high mallet height when needed and the ability to “dig in” with the two inside mallets with strong accents. Notice the motion of the inside mallets are with an up and down motion and the outside mallets are fairly stationary. For more on the “Fulcrum Grip”, please see my clinic videos on my YT channel.

This is an interesting cd for vibe players to check out. Listen to Julian play. This is Guitar, Bass and Drums. Julian plays the melody a lot of the time and only adds one or two notes. When I hear stuff like this, I think immediately about playing in a trio, vibes, bass and drums. I see how little I have to play. I see how similar we are to the guitar in terms of comping and playing melodies. I learn so much from listening to guitar trio CDs!!!!

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This is an attempt at the time exercise that David Friedman has been demonstrating on the site. After the head, the vibes solos for two choruses, then guitar for two, and out.

Hi I'm new to this wonderful community. I've been playing vibes for about one year. I recorded practicing blues, Billie's Bounce with my good friend bass player. I know there is so much to work on, outlining chord changes, language... and way more... but I'd like to hear from all of you way more experienced players than me on what I should focus more. There is so much material out there on the recordings that I'm listening to, should I transcribe first?