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Practicing solo vibraphone on Alone Together here at the house this past Sunday afternoon. Here is Take 1 out of three takes. This is a fairly brief two chorus version that includes right hand octaves along with left hand accompaniment and pedal point in the bridge of the 2nd chorus.

Other Takes:

Take 2: This take is a little slower and starts out with more subtlety than Take 1. In this take, I'm experimenting with using a variety of articulations/note lengths as well as executing lines with four mallets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrX5NTvwWUo

Another lesson about ideas for practicing scales and mixing up your routine.

giovanni presents some concepts for reharmonizing the turnaround...

Giovanni talks about how to play over triton substitutions, which scale you can use, some tricks to reharmonize it etc...

Had never heard this little gem. Tough for me to play. Ver 1 plays the 4 chords of the bridge as closed as possible. Want to compare to opening them up per Tony's suggestions.
Also, added a good external microphone to my Audacity recording setup. Seems to bring a good improvement in sound quality.

This post is in response to Tony's plea for members to post more. So if you don't like it, blame Tony.

If you are practicing scales and arpeggios, these might be some nice ideas to try.
-Tyler

I posted this in the thread with the link to the PBS Tiny Desk concert with Gary and Julian Lage, where this piece is performed. I don't know if anyone caught it though, so I'm reposting it here. This is also recorded on Gary's latest album 'Guided Tour'. It was written for Astor Piazzolla. I really like the harmonic movement.

I recently bought Jim Casella's vibraphone arrangement of Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1, which you can get from Steve Weiss. Aside from being a beautiful piece, I found it to be a great exercise in mallet dampening and independence. In particular, in some places you need to dampen AFTER the following note has been played rather than just before.